Nêdong County
Nêdong
乃东区 • སྣེ་གདོང་ཆུས། | |
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 Location of Nêdong (red) within Shannan City (yellow) and the Tibet Autonomous Region | |
  Nêdong Location in Tibet  Nêdong Nêdong (China) | |
| Coordinates: 29°13′12″N 91°46′48″E / 29.22000°N 91.78000°E | |
| Country | China |
| Autonomous region | Tibet |
| Prefecture-level city | Shannan (Lhoka) |
| District seat | Tsetang Subdistrict |
| Area | |
| • Total | 2,184.98 km2 (843.63 sq mi) |
| Population (2020)[1] | |
| • Total | 81,608 |
| • Density | 37/km2 (97/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+08:00 (China Standard) |
| Website | www |
| Nedong, Shannan | |||||||
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| Chinese name | |||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 乃东区 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 乃東區 | ||||||
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| Tibetan name | |||||||
| Tibetan | སྣེ་གདོང་ཆུས། | ||||||
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Nêdong District (Tibetan: སྣེ་གདོང་ཆུས།; Chinese: 乃东区) is a district of Shannan in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
Tradruk Temple, an important early Buddhist monastery dating to the reign of Songtsen Gampo, is located in the Yarlung Valley in Nêdong as is Yungbulakang Palace.
Administrative divisions
Nêdong District contains 1 subdistrict, 1 town and 5 townships.
| Name | Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Subdistrict | ||||
| Tsetang Subdistrict | 泽当街道 | Zédāng Jiēdào | རྩེད་ཐང་ཁྲོམ་ལམ་། | rtsed thang khrom lam |
| Town | ||||
| Thradrug Town | 昌珠镇 | Chāngzhū zhèn | ཁྲ་འབྲུག་གྲོང་རྡལ། | khra 'brug grong rdal |
| Townships | ||||
| Yadoi Township | 亚堆乡 | Yàduī xiāng | ཡ་སྟོད་ཤང་། | ya stod shang |
| Sodruk Township | 索珠乡 | Suǒzhū xiāng | སོ་དྲུག་ཤང་། | so drug shang |
| Dopozhang Township | 多颇章乡 | Duōpōzhāng xiāng | རྡོ་ཕོ་བྲང་ཤང་། | sdo pho brang shang |
| Kerpa Township | 结巴乡 | Jiébā xiāng | སྐར་པ་ཤང་། | skar pa shang |
| Pozhang Township | 颇章乡 | Pōzhāng xiāng | པོ་བྲང་ཤང་། | pho brang shang |
Climate
| Climate data for Shannan (Nedong District, 1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–2010) | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 20.5 (68.9) |
20.6 (69.1) |
25.0 (77.0) |
26.5 (79.7) |
28.7 (83.7) |
30.0 (86.0) |
30.3 (86.5) |
28.5 (83.3) |
27.1 (80.8) |
24.5 (76.1) |
22.5 (72.5) |
19.3 (66.7) |
30.3 (86.5) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 9.3 (48.7) |
10.8 (51.4) |
14.2 (57.6) |
17.2 (63.0) |
20.7 (69.3) |
23.9 (75.0) |
23.6 (74.5) |
22.7 (72.9) |
21.5 (70.7) |
18.4 (65.1) |
13.7 (56.7) |
10.3 (50.5) |
17.2 (63.0) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 0.8 (33.4) |
3.1 (37.6) |
6.7 (44.1) |
9.5 (49.1) |
13.2 (55.8) |
16.5 (61.7) |
16.5 (61.7) |
15.9 (60.6) |
14.5 (58.1) |
10.4 (50.7) |
4.8 (40.6) |
1.0 (33.8) |
9.4 (48.9) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −6.7 (19.9) |
−4.2 (24.4) |
−0.3 (31.5) |
2.9 (37.2) |
6.8 (44.2) |
10.6 (51.1) |
11.6 (52.9) |
11.2 (52.2) |
9.4 (48.9) |
4.0 (39.2) |
−2.1 (28.2) |
−6.2 (20.8) |
3.1 (37.5) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −18.2 (−0.8) |
−13.3 (8.1) |
−10.1 (13.8) |
−6.8 (19.8) |
−2.6 (27.3) |
0.7 (33.3) |
5.8 (42.4) |
4.5 (40.1) |
−0.7 (30.7) |
−6.1 (21.0) |
−11.2 (11.8) |
−14.8 (5.4) |
−18.2 (−0.8) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 0.6 (0.02) |
1.5 (0.06) |
4.9 (0.19) |
14.4 (0.57) |
30.0 (1.18) |
52.4 (2.06) |
122.4 (4.82) |
113 (4.4) |
53.7 (2.11) |
8.5 (0.33) |
1.2 (0.05) |
0.5 (0.02) |
403.1 (15.81) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 0.5 | 1.2 | 3.1 | 6.4 | 9.3 | 13.5 | 19.9 | 18.6 | 12.4 | 3.3 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 89.2 |
| Average snowy days | 1.4 | 2.6 | 6.3 | 5.2 | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.0 | 1.4 | 0.6 | 19.5 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 28 | 27 | 32 | 40 | 44 | 51 | 61 | 62 | 58 | 44 | 33 | 31 | 43 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 230.2 | 220.5 | 250.8 | 255.9 | 269.9 | 248.3 | 213.8 | 223.0 | 231.7 | 264.2 | 244.3 | 237.8 | 2,890.4 |
| Percent possible sunshine | 71 | 69 | 67 | 66 | 64 | 59 | 50 | 55 | 63 | 75 | 77 | 75 | 66 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration[2][3] | |||||||||||||
Gallery
References
- ^ "山南市第七次全国人口普查主要数据公报" (in Chinese). Statistics Bureau of Lhoka. 2021-06-24.
- ^ 中国气象数据网 – WeatherBk Data (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 27 September 2023.
- ^ 中国气象数据网 (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 27 September 2023.
