Guide County
{{Infobox settlement
| name = Guide County
| native_name = {{nobold|{{lang|zh-hans|贵德县}} • {{bo-textonly|ཁྲི་ཀ་རྫོང་།}}}}
| postal_code_type = Postal code
| settlement_type = County
| image_skyline = Guide old walls.jpg
| image_map = Location of Guide within Qinghai (China).png
| map_caption = Guide County (light red) within Hainan Prefecture (yellow) and Qinghai
| pushpin_map = China Qinghai
| pushpin_label = Guide
| pushpin_map_caption = Location of the seat in Qinghai
| subdivision_type = Country
| subdivision_name = China
| subdivision_type1 = Province
| subdivision_name1 = Qinghai
| subdivision_type2 = Autonomous prefecture
| subdivision_name2 = Hainan
| seat_type = County seat
| seat = Qusib (Heyin)
| area_total_km2 = 3504
| population_total = 105645
| population_as_of = 2020
| population_density_km2 = auto
| population_footnotes = {{cite web |url = https://www.hainanzhou.gov.cn/zfxxgk/fdzdgknr/tjxx/202106/t20210629_44172.html |title = 海南州第七次全国人口普查公报（第二号）——县级常住人口情况 |publisher = Government of Hainan Prefecture |language = zh |date = 2021-06-25 }}
| coordinates = {{Coord|35.989|N|101.471|E|source:dewiki_region:CN-63_type:adm3rd|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
| elevation_ft =
| elevation_m =
| timezone = China Standard
| utc_offset = +8
| website = {{URL|http://www.guide.gov.cn}}
| elevation_min_m = 2710
| elevation_min_point =
| elevation_max_point =
| elevation_max_m = 5011
}}
{{Infobox Chinese |order=st |s=贵德县 |t=貴德縣 |p=Guìdé Xiàn |j=gwai3dak1 jyun2
|tib={{bo-textonly|ཁྲི་ཀ་རྫོང་།}} |wylie=khri ka rdzong |zwpy=Triga Zong}}
Guide County ({{lang-zh|s=贵德县}}, {{bo|t=ཁྲི་ཀ་རྫོང་།}}) is a county in the east of Qinghai Province, China. It is under the administration of Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. In Tibetan it is known as Trika. In 2015 it had a population of 108,800, of which 37.8% Tibetans, and 16.1% other ethnic minorities.{{Cite web|date=11 May 2016|title=自然地理|url=http://www.guide.gov.cn/html/2550/134406.html|publisher=Guide County Government}} In 2018 the population was 110,900.{{Cite web|title=贵德县基本情况（2018年）|url=http://www.guide.gov.cn/html/2550/532173.html|access-date=2021-07-07|website=www.guide.gov.cn}}
It is located along the Yellow River, surrounded by hilly terrain on either side of the river valley.
Guide was first established during the Yuan dynasty. The area became part of Ming Dynasty China in 1370.{{Citation needed|date=July 2021}} In 1953 it was placed under jurisdiction of Hainan prefecture.{{Cite web|title=贵德县情|url=http://www.guide.gov.cn/html/2550/383992.html|access-date=2021-07-07|website=www.guide.gov.cn}}
Guide old town
The city's earthen walls and buildings were built between 1375 and 1380. The city was enlarged in 1590. After the founding of the People's Republic, the moats were filled in and the North and South gates were pulled down, as well as the towers. In 2010 work commenced to restore the gates and towers.{{Cite web|title=存留在黄河上游的贵德古城|url=http://www.lzbs.com.cn/wbxb/2010-11/09/content_2092637.htm|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140814045311/http://www.lzbs.com.cn/wbxb/2010-11/09/content_2092637.htm|archive-date=2014-08-14}}{{Additional citation needed|date=July 2021}}
Economics
Guide is known in Qinghai as a fruit producing county, in particular for pear cultivation, as it has a relatively mild climate. The Laxiwa Dam in Guide is the largest hydropower station on the upper reaches of the Yellow River.
Administrative divisions
Guide governs over 4 towns, 2 townships, and 1 ethnic township.{{Cite web|title=2020年统计用区划代码|url=http://www.stats.gov.cn/tjsj/tjbz/tjyqhdmhcxhfdm/2020/63/25/632523.html|access-date=2021-07-07|website=www.stats.gov.cn}} The county seat is in Qusib (Heyin).
| class="wikitable" align="center" style="width:50%; border="1" |
| Name
! Simplified Chinese ! Hanyu Pinyin ! Tibetan ! Wylie |
|---|
| colspan="7" style="text-align:center; background:#d3d3d3;"|Towns |
| ---------
| Qusib Town | {{lang|zh-hans|河阴镇}} | {{Transliteration|zh|Héyīn Zhèn}} | {{bo-textonly|ཆུ་སྲིབ་གྲོང་རྡལ།}} | {{Transliteration|bo|chu srib grong brdal}} | 632523100 |
| Qurub Town (Hexi) | {{lang|zh-hans|河西镇}} | {{Transliteration|zh|Héxī Zhèn}} | {{bo-textonly|ཆུ་རུབ་གྲོང་རྡལ།}} | {{Transliteration|bo|chu rub grong brdal}} | 632523101 |
| Lasêwa Town (Laxiwa) | {{lang|zh-hans|拉西瓦镇}} | {{Transliteration|zh|Lāxīwǎ Zhèn}} | {{bo-textonly|ལ་ཟེ་བ་གྲོང་རྡལ།}} | {{Transliteration|bo|la ze ba grong brdal}} | 632523102 |
| Changmar Town (Changmu) | {{lang|zh-hans|常牧镇}} | {{Transliteration|zh|Chángmù Zhèn}} | {{bo-textonly|འཕྲང་དམར་གྲོང་རྡལ།}} | {{Transliteration|bo|'phrang dmar grong brdal}} | 632523103 |
| colspan="7" style="text-align:center; background:#d3d3d3;"|Townships |
| ---------
| Quxar Township | {{lang|zh-hans|河东乡}} | {{Transliteration|zh|Hédōng Xiāng}} | {{bo-textonly|ཆུ་ཤར་ཡུལ་ཚོ།}} | {{Transliteration|bo|chu shar yul tsho}} | 632523200 |
| Garji Township (Garing, Garang) | {{lang|zh-hans|尕让乡}} | {{Transliteration|zh|Gǎràng Xiāng}} | {{bo-textonly|དཀར་བརྗིད་ཞང་།}} | {{Transliteration|bo|dkar brjid zhang}} | 632523202 |
| colspan="7" style="text-align:center; background:#d3d3d3;"|Ethnic township |
| ---------
| Gabroin Hui Ethnic Township | {{lang|zh-hans|新街回族乡}} | {{Transliteration|zh|Xīnjiē Huízú Xiāng}} | {{bo-textonly|ཀབ་རོན་ཧོས་རིགས་ཡུལ་ཚོ།}} | {{Transliteration|bo|kab ron hos rigs yul tsho}} | 632523201 |
Climate
{{Weather box|width=auto
|metric first=y
|single line=y
|collapsed = Y
|location = Guide, elevation {{convert|2273|m|ft|abbr=on}}, (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–2010)
|Jan high C = 3.9
|Feb high C = 7.8
|Mar high C = 13.3
|Apr high C = 18.6
|May high C = 21.6
|Jun high C = 24.3
|Jul high C = 26.5
|Aug high C = 26.1
|Sep high C = 21.5
|Oct high C = 16.4
|Nov high C = 10.7
|Dec high C = 5.2
|Jan mean C = -5.1
|Feb mean C = -1.0
|Mar mean C = 4.7
|Apr mean C = 10.3
|May mean C = 14.0
|Jun mean C = 17.2
|Jul mean C = 19.4
|Aug mean C = 18.9
|Sep mean C = 14.1
|Oct mean C = 7.8
|Nov mean C = 1.1
|Dec mean C = -4.0
|Jan low C = -11.8
|Feb low C = -7.8
|Mar low C = -2.2
|Apr low C = 2.8
|May low C = 6.7
|Jun low C = 10.2
|Jul low C = 12.7
|Aug low C = 12.5
|Sep low C = 8.6
|Oct low C = 1.8
|Nov low C = -5.4
|Dec low C = -10.5
|Jan record high C = 14.2 |Jan record low C = -21.8
|Feb record high C = 18.4 |Feb record low C = -19.1
|Mar record high C = 27.9 |Mar record low C = -15.1
|Apr record high C = 35.0 |Apr record low C = -9.2
|May record high C = 30.5 |May record low C = -3.5
|Jun record high C = 32.9 |Jun record low C = 1.3
|Jul record high C = 38.7 |Jul record low C = 4.1
|Aug record high C = 35.6 |Aug record low C = 3.2
|Sep record high C = 31.1 |Sep record low C = -2.1
|Oct record high C = 25.6 |Oct record low C = -12.0
|Nov record high C = 19.4 |Nov record low C = -14.5
|Dec record high C = 12.9 |Dec record low C = -20.2
|year high C = |year low C =
|year high F = |year low F =
|precipitation colour = green
|Jan precipitation mm = 0.5
|Feb precipitation mm = 0.5
|Mar precipitation mm = 2.7
|Apr precipitation mm = 14.6
|May precipitation mm = 32.7
|Jun precipitation mm = 41.3
|Jul precipitation mm = 50.5
|Aug precipitation mm = 54.7
|Sep precipitation mm = 42.7
|Oct precipitation mm = 14.2
|Nov precipitation mm = 2.1
|Dec precipitation mm = 0.3
|Jan humidity = 42
|Feb humidity = 39
|Mar humidity = 38
|Apr humidity = 42
|May humidity = 51
|Jun humidity = 58
|Jul humidity = 60
|Aug humidity = 61
|Sep humidity = 66
|Oct humidity = 61
|Nov humidity = 50
|Dec humidity = 46
|unit precipitation days = 0.1 mm
|Jan precipitation days = 1.1
|Feb precipitation days = 0.8
|Mar precipitation days = 2.2
|Apr precipitation days = 4.3
|May precipitation days = 8.9
|Jun precipitation days = 11.7
|Jul precipitation days = 12.2
|Aug precipitation days = 11.1
|Sep precipitation days = 11.4
|Oct precipitation days = 5.6
|Nov precipitation days = 1.3
|Dec precipitation days = 0.7
|year precipitation days =
|Jan sun = 215.9
|Feb sun = 209.1
|Mar sun = 241.8
|Apr sun = 255.2
|May sun = 258.9
|Jun sun = 238.7
|Jul sun = 250.5
|Aug sun = 252.6
|Sep sun = 209.3
|Oct sun = 225.5
|Nov sun = 226.1
|Dec sun = 220.6
|year sun =
| Jan percentsun = 69
| Feb percentsun = 67
| Mar percentsun = 65
| Apr percentsun = 64
| May percentsun = 59
| Jun percentsun = 55
| Jul percentsun = 57
| Aug percentsun = 61
| Sep percentsun = 57
| Oct percentsun = 66
| Nov percentsun = 74
| Dec percentsun = 73
| year percentsun =
|Jan snow days = 2.2
|Feb snow days = 1.8
|Mar snow days = 2.9
|Apr snow days = 1.0
|May snow days = 0.1
|Jun snow days = 0
|Jul snow days = 0
|Aug snow days = 0
|Sep snow days = 0
|Oct snow days = 0.4
|Nov snow days = 1.6
|Dec snow days = 1.2
|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 August 2023}}
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Transport
The Guide General Aviation Airport started construction in 2018.{{Cite web|title=青海首个通用机场项目开工 2018年竣工并投用_民航资源网|url=http://news.carnoc.com/list/413/413165.html|access-date=2021-07-07|website=news.carnoc.com}}
See also
References
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External links
- {{Wikivoyage inline|Guide County}}
- {{Commons category-inline|Guide County}}
{{County-level divisions of Qinghai}}
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Category:County-level divisions of Qinghai
Category:Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
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