Datong Hui and Tu Autonomous County
{{Infobox settlement
| name = Datong County
| native_name = {{nobold|{{lang|zh-hans|大通县}}}} {{bo-textonly|གསེར་ཁོག་རྫོང་།}}
| official_name = {{nobold|{{lang|zh-Hans|大通回族土族自治县}} {{bo-textonly|རྟ་ཐང་ཧུའེ་རིགས་ཧོར་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་རྫོང་།}} · {{script/Arabic|دَاتْو خُوِذُو تُوذُو ذِجِشِیًا}} · {{lang|mjg|Daatun Hui szarbaten Mongghul szarbaten njeenaa daglagu xan}}}}
{{lower|0.25em|Datong Hui and Tu Autonomous County}}
| postal_code_type = Postal code
| settlement_type = Autonomous county
| image_skyline = 大通回族土族自治县.jpg
| image_caption = Looking west over Datong town from Mt Laoye
| image_map = Location of Datong within Qinghai (China).png
| map_caption = Location of the county (red) in Xining City (yellow) and Qinghai
| subdivision_type = Country
| subdivision_name = China
| subdivision_type1 = Province
| subdivision_name1 = Qinghai
| subdivision_type2 = Prefecture-level city
| subdivision_name2 = Xining
| seat = Qiaotou Town
| area_total_km2 = 3090
| population_total = 403368
| population_as_of = 2020
| population_density_km2 = auto
| elevation_m = 2442
| timezone = China Standard
| utc_offset = +8
| website =
| image_map1 = {{maplink|frame=yes|plain=yes|type=shape|stroke-width=2|stroke-color=#000000|zoom=9}}
| map_caption1 = Location of Datong
}}
{{Infobox Chinese
| t = 大通回族土族自治縣
| s = 大通回族土族自治县
| p = Dàtōng Huízú Tǔzú Zìzhìxiàn
| l =
| tib = {{bo-textonly|རྟ་ཐང་ཧུའེ་རིགས་ཧོར་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་རྫོང་།}} or {{bo-textonly|གསེར་ཁོག་རྫོང་།}}
| wylie = ta thung huʼe rigs hor rigs rang skyong rdzong or gser khog rdzong
| zwpy =
| order = st
| mon =
| mong =
| monr =
| altname = Serkhog County
| tib2 =
| wylie2 =
}}
Datong Hui and Tu Autonomous County, Datong County, or Serkhog County ({{zh|s=大通回族土族自治县 |t=大通回族土族自治縣 |p=Dàtōng Huízú Tǔzú Zìzhìxiàn}}; {{bo|t=རྟ་ཐང་ཧུའེ་རིགས་ཧོར་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་རྫོང}}; or more frequently {{bo|t=གསེར་ཁོག་རྫོང}}; Monguor: {{lang|mjg|Daatun Hui szarbaten Mongghul szarbaten njeenaa daglagu xan}}; Xiao'erjing: {{Script/Arabic|دَاتْو خُوِذُو تُوذُو ذِجِشِیًا}}) is an autonomous county of Hui and Tu peoples in Qinghai Province, China. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Xining, the capital of Qinghai.{{Cite web |title=Features: Show |url=http://places.kmaps.virginia.edu/features/1150 |access-date=2023-07-16 |website=places.kmaps.virginia.edu}}{{Cite web |title=༄༅༎མཐའ་ཚད་སྐྱོང་བ། དྲ་མིག་དམ་གཏོང་། ལམ་སྲོལ་འཛུགས་པ།--མི་དམངས་དྲ་བ།--人民网 |url=http://tibet.people.com.cn/15813879.html |access-date=2023-08-10 |website=tibet.people.com.cn 人民网藏语版}}{{Cite web |title=རྨ་ལྷོའི་འཕྲིན་གསར། |url=http://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MzAwNzk2ODM0NA==&mid=2247520574&idx=1&sn=9263419f8eb39c8570101e878a1c53dc&chksm=9b74d209ac035b1f1206fefaf0dc90e9f5caf2f7a2fc508635f39330fa144d52cc4cbcd2c431#rd |access-date=2023-08-10 |website=Weixin Official Accounts Platform}}{{Cite web |last=阳光西藏 |title=ལོ་༢༣བྲོས་བྱོལ་དུ་སོང་བའི་མི་གསོད་ལག་དམར་ཞིག་བཟུང་འདུག |url=http://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MjM5Nzg1NzQzNw==&mid=2653183801&idx=1&sn=d89cf3aeeb699125148dd26d2310bb5a&chksm=bd036ecb8a74e7dd6c9cad017c8d5a531a1b5f1c9b43b7a169a47279c8508f733163c910cd0d#rd |access-date=2023-08-10 |website=Weixin Official Accounts Platform}}{{Cite web |title=རྟ་ཐང་རྫོང་གིས་ཤུགས་ཆེན་པོས་མཐོ་སྒང་གི་ལྗང་མདོག་ལུང་པ་བསྐྲུན།-མཛེས་པའི་ཕ་ཡུལ།-མཚོ་སྔོན་ཞིང་ཆེན་སྲིད་གཞུང་དྲ་བ། |url=http://www.qhtibetan.com/dmqh/system/2022/07/19/030007819.shtml |access-date=2023-08-10 |website=www.qhtibetan.com}}
File:Mt_Laoye_from_Datong_town.jpg
Since 2009, a folk music "Flower Festival" has been held annually in late July on "Mount Laoye" (2928 m) in Datong town.[http://www.china.org.cn/china/2012-06/05/content_25570841_2.htm Qinghai to hold 3rd flower festival] China Internet Information Center June 5, 2012
Subdivisions
Datong County is divided into 9 towns, 9 townships, and 2 ethnic townships:
- Qiaotou Town ({{lang|zh|桥头镇}})
- Chengguan Town ({{lang|zh|城关镇}})
- Tar Town ({{lang|zh-Hans|塔尔镇}})
- Huangjiazhai Town ({{lang|zh-Hans|黄家寨镇}})
- Changning Town ({{lang|zh-Hans|长宁镇}})
- Jingyang Town ({{lang|zh-Hans|景阳镇}})
- Duolin Town ({{lang|zh-Hans|多林镇}})
- Xinzhuang Town ({{lang|zh-Hans|新庄镇}})
- Qinglin Township ({{lang|zh-Hans|青林乡}})
- Xunrang Township ({{lang|zh-Hans|逊让乡}})
- Jile Township ({{lang|zh-Hans|极乐乡}})
- Shishan Township ({{lang|zh-Hans|石山乡}})
- Baoku Township ({{lang|zh-Hans|宝库乡}})
- Xiegou Township ({{lang|zh-Hans|斜沟乡}})
- Liangjiao Township ({{lang|zh-Hans|良教乡}})
- Hualin Township ({{lang|zh-Hans|桦林乡}})
- Xangba Tibetan Ethnic Township ({{lang|zh-Hans|向化藏族乡}}, {{bo-textonly|ཞང་དཔའ་བོད་རིགས་ཞང་།}})
- Shobê Tibetan Ethnic Township ({{lang|zh-Hans|朔北藏族乡}}, {{bo-textonly|ཧྲོ་པེ་བོད་རིགས་ཞང་།}})
Climate
{{Weather box|width=auto
|metric first=y
|single line=y
|collapsed = Y
|location = Datong, elevation {{convert|2450|m|ft|abbr=on}}, (1991–2020 normals)
|Jan high C = 0.9
|Feb high C = 4.8
|Mar high C = 9.7
|Apr high C = 15.2
|May high C = 18.7
|Jun high C = 21.4
|Jul high C = 23.4
|Aug high C = 22.5
|Sep high C = 18.2
|Oct high C = 13.1
|Nov high C = 7.4
|Dec high C = 2.2
|Jan mean C = -8.4
|Feb mean C = -4.1
|Mar mean C = 1.5
|Apr mean C = 7.2
|May mean C = 11.2
|Jun mean C = 14.2
|Jul mean C = 16.2
|Aug mean C = 15.3
|Sep mean C = 11.2
|Oct mean C = 5.6
|Nov mean C = -1.0
|Dec mean C = -6.9
|Jan low C = -15.7
|Feb low C = -11.3
|Mar low C = -4.9
|Apr low C = 0.3
|May low C = 4.4
|Jun low C = 7.8
|Jul low C = 10.1
|Aug low C = 9.8
|Sep low C = 6.3
|Oct low C = 0.4
|Nov low C = -6.9
|Dec low C = -13.8
|precipitation colour = green
|Jan precipitation mm = 2.1
|Feb precipitation mm = 2.1
|Mar precipitation mm = 14.5
|Apr precipitation mm = 33.1
|May precipitation mm = 66.1
|Jun precipitation mm = 86.1
|Jul precipitation mm = 99.4
|Aug precipitation mm = 115.1
|Sep precipitation mm = 82.8
|Oct precipitation mm = 28.5
|Nov precipitation mm = 5
|Dec precipitation mm = 1.4
|unit precipitation days = 0.1 mm
|Jan precipitation days = 3.7
|Feb precipitation days = 4.2
|Mar precipitation days = 6.5
|Apr precipitation days = 8.2
|May precipitation days = 13.0
|Jun precipitation days = 16.5
|Jul precipitation days = 17.1
|Aug precipitation days = 17.4
|Sep precipitation days = 16.5
|Oct precipitation days = 9.1
|Nov precipitation days = 3.5
|Dec precipitation days = 3.1
|year precipitation days =
|Jan humidity = 51
|Feb humidity = 47
|Mar humidity = 48
|Apr humidity = 50
|May humidity = 56
|Jun humidity = 64
|Jul humidity = 69
|Aug humidity = 72
|Sep humidity = 74
|Oct humidity = 67
|Nov humidity = 60
|Dec humidity = 55
|Jan sun = 200.9
|Feb sun = 200.2
|Mar sun = 227.4
|Apr sun = 230.9
|May sun = 237.1
|Jun sun = 218.6
|Jul sun = 221.9
|Aug sun = 211.1
|Sep sun = 175.8
|Oct sun = 196.1
|Nov sun = 204.1
|Dec sun = 197.9
|year sun =
| Jan percentsun = 65
| Feb percentsun = 65
| Mar percentsun = 61
| Apr percentsun = 58
| May percentsun = 54
| Jun percentsun = 50
| Jul percentsun = 50
| Aug percentsun = 51
| Sep percentsun = 48
| Oct percentsun = 57
| Nov percentsun = 68
| Dec percentsun = 66
| year percentsun =
|Jan snow days = 5.8
|Feb snow days = 6.9
|Mar snow days = 9.4
|Apr snow days = 5.9
|May snow days = 1.1
|Jun snow days = 0
|Jul snow days = 0
|Aug snow days = 0
|Sep snow days = 0
|Oct snow days = 3.0
|Nov snow days = 5.3
|Dec snow days = 5.1
|year snow days =
|source 1 = China Meteorological Administration{{cite web |url=http://data.cma.cn/data/weatherBk.html |script-title=zh:中国气象数据网 – WeatherBk Data |publisher=China Meteorological Administration |language = zh-hans |access-date=27 September 2023}}
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Transportation
- China National Highway 227
- Xining–Datong Expressway (Ningda Expressway)
- Xining–Datong Railway (Ningda Railway, {{lang|zh-hans|宁大铁路}}), a 39-km long dead-end railway branch constructed in 1966-1968 and primarily serving a local coal mine. In the past, passenger service operated on the line, but ceased in 2008.
- Lanzhou–Xinjiang High-Speed Railway (Datong West Station; {{coord|36.966168|N|101.672054|E}}), opened in December 2014. Very limited service.
See also
References
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{{Hui autonomy in the People's Republic of China}}
{{Other ethnic minorities autonomy in the People's Republic of China}}
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