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Coordinates: 31°50′N 103°30′E / 31.833°N 103.500°E / 31.833; 103.500
  
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Mao County
茂县 · མའོ་རྫོང་། · Shgvunyi
Maoxian
County
Diexi Lake, in Diexi
Diexi Lake, in Diexi
Mao County (red) in Ngawa (yellow) and Sichuan
Mao County (red) in Ngawa (yellow) and Sichuan
Mao County is located in Sichuan
Mao County

Mao County

Location of the seat in Sichuan

Mao County is located in China
Mao County

Mao County

Mao County (China)

Coordinates: 31°50′N 103°30′E / 31.833°N 103.500°E / 31.833; 103.500
CountryChina
ProvinceSichuan
Autonomous prefectureNgawa
County seatFengyi
Area
 • Total4,064 km2 (1,569 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)[1]
 • Total95,361
 • Density23/km2 (61/sq mi)
 • Major nationalities
Qiang−88.9%
Han Tibetan
Time zoneUTC+08:00 (China Standard)
Postal code
623200
Area code0837
Websitewww.maoxian.gov.cn
Mao County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese茂县
Traditional Chinese茂縣
Tibetan name
Tibetanམའོ་རྫོང་།
Qiang name
QiangShgvunyi

Mao CountyorMaoxian (Chinese: 茂县; Tibetan: མའོ་རྫོང་།; Qiang: Shgvunyi) is a countyinNgawa Prefecture, Sichuan Province, China.

It has an area of 3,903 and a population of 106,700 as of 2006.[2] 88.9% of the population are Qiang people.[3] The county seat is Fengyi Town.[4]

Natural disasters

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In 1933, an earthquake occurred near Diexi.

In 2017, a landslide occurred in Xinmo Village (新磨村), Diexi.[5][6]

Administrative divisions

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Mao County has 11 towns.

Name Simplified Chinese Hanyu Pinyin Tibetan Wylie Qiang Administrative division code
Towns
Fengyi Town
(Fünyi) 		凤仪镇 Fèngyí Zhèn ཧྥུན་ཡིས་གྲོང་རྡལ། hphun yis grong rdal 513223100
Nanxin Town
(Nainxin) 		南新镇 Nánxīn Zhèn ནན་ཤིན་གྲོང་རྡལ། nan shin grong rdal 513223101
Diexi Town
(Dêxi) 		叠溪镇 Diéxī Zhèn ཏེ་ཞི་གྲོང་རྡལ། te zhi grong rdal 513223102
Fushun Town
(Foshung) 		富顺镇 Fùshùn Zhèn ཧྥོ་ཧྲུང་གྲོང་རྡལ། hpho hrung grong rdal 513223105
Tumen Town
(Tumin) 		土门镇 Tǔmén Zhèn ཐུའུ་མིན་གྲོང་རྡལ། thu'u min grong rdal 513223107
Wadi Town
(Wadü) 		洼底镇 Wādǐ Zhèn བ་ཏུས་གྲོང་རྡལ། ba tus grong rdal Vvuaji 513223109
Shaba Town 沙坝镇 Shābà Zhèn Zhewa 513223110
Weimen Town
(Wümoin) 		渭门镇 Wèimén Zhèn ཝུའེ་མོན་གྲོང་རྡལ། wu'e mon grong rdal 513223111
Heihu Town 黑虎镇 Hēihǔ Zhèn ཧྭེ་ཧུའུ་གྲོང་རྡལ། hwe hu'u grong rdal 513223112
Goukou Town 沟口镇 Gōukǒu Zhèn གུག་ཁུག་གྲོང་རྡལ། gug khug grong rdal 513223113
Chibusu Town 赤不苏镇 Chìbúsū Zhèn ཁྲི་པུའུ་སུའུ་གྲོང་རྡལ། khri pu'u su'u grong rdal Shbuvs 513223114

Transport

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Climate

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Climate data for Maoxian, elevation 1,590 m (5,220 ft), (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–2010)
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Record high °C (°F) 18.2
(64.8) 		26.3
(79.3) 		29.0
(84.2) 		28.3
(82.9) 		30.3
(86.5) 		29.7
(85.5) 		32.2
(90.0) 		31.6
(88.9) 		29.4
(84.9) 		25.6
(78.1) 		22.8
(73.0) 		20.4
(68.7) 		32.2
(90.0)
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) 5.9
(42.6) 		8.1
(46.6) 		12.4
(54.3) 		17.8
(64.0) 		21.0
(69.8) 		23.7
(74.7) 		25.8
(78.4) 		25.4
(77.7) 		21.4
(70.5) 		16.6
(61.9) 		12.6
(54.7) 		7.8
(46.0) 		16.5
(61.8)
Daily mean °C (°F) 1.1
(34.0) 		3.3
(37.9) 		7.3
(45.1) 		12.2
(54.0) 		15.8
(60.4) 		18.7
(65.7) 		20.9
(69.6) 		20.5
(68.9) 		16.9
(62.4) 		12.2
(54.0) 		7.4
(45.3) 		2.5
(36.5) 		11.6
(52.8)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) −2.4
(27.7) 		0.0
(32.0) 		3.6
(38.5) 		7.8
(46.0) 		11.4
(52.5) 		14.5
(58.1) 		16.7
(62.1) 		16.5
(61.7) 		13.7
(56.7) 		9.2
(48.6) 		3.6
(38.5) 		−1.3
(29.7) 		7.8
(46.0)
Record low °C (°F) −11.5
(11.3) 		−10.4
(13.3) 		−8.5
(16.7) 		−0.7
(30.7) 		2.2
(36.0) 		7.0
(44.6) 		9.9
(49.8) 		7.8
(46.0) 		4.5
(40.1) 		−0.9
(30.4) 		−5.4
(22.3) 		−10.4
(13.3) 		−11.5
(11.3)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 3.2
(0.13) 		5.7
(0.22) 		22.6
(0.89) 		49.1
(1.93) 		67.6
(2.66) 		79.0
(3.11) 		70.0
(2.76) 		71.8
(2.83) 		52.6
(2.07) 		41.3
(1.63) 		9.8
(0.39) 		1.9
(0.07) 		474.6
(18.69)
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) 6.6 7.8 12.5 15.7 18.2 18.1 15.8 14.2 15.1 16.1 6.5 3.7 150.3
Average snowy days 14.9 11.1 4.1 0.3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.4 7.9 39.7
Average relative humidity (%) 68 70 71 71 73 77 77 77 80 80 76 70 74
Mean monthly sunshine hours 133.2 114.2 128.2 149.1 148.2 123.7 144.3 150.4 92.9 92.3 125.5 134.7 1,536.7
Percent possible sunshine 42 36 34 38 35 29 34 37 25 26 40 43 35
Source: China Meteorological Administration[7][8]

References

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  1. ^ "阿坝州第七次全国人口普查公报第二号——县（市）人口情况" (in Chinese). Government of Ngawa Prefecture. 2021-06-11.
  • ^ (in Chinese) Profile of Mao County Archived 2008-05-01 at the Wayback Machine, official website of Ngawa Prefecture Government, visited on May 25, 2008.
  • ^ (in Chinese) Mao County: A County with the Most Qiang Population in China, China Internet Information Center, May 17, 2008.
  • ^ (in Chinese) Profile of Mao County.
  • ^ "China landslide leaves at least 140 missing in Sichuan". BBC. 2017-06-24. Retrieved 2017-06-24.
  • ^ "牵挂·守望·搜救——四川茂县山体垮塌灾害36小时救援纪实" (in Chinese). Xinhua News Agency. 26 June 2017.
  • ^ 中国气象数据网 – WeatherBk Data (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 13 April 2023.
  • ^ 中国气象数据网 (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 13 April 2023.

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