Lintao County
{{Infobox settlement
| name = Lintao County
| native_name = {{nobold|{{lang|zh-hans|临洮县}}}}
| postal_code = 730500
| postal_code_type = Postal code
| settlement_type = County
| image_skyline = 临洮街景-1 - panoramio (1).jpg
| image_map =
| map_caption =
| pushpin_map = China Gansu#China#Continental Asia
| pushpin_label = Lintao
| pushpin_relief = yes
| pushpin_map_caption = Location of the seat in Gansu
| subdivision_type = Country
| subdivision_name = China
| subdivision_type1 = Province
| subdivision_name1 = Gansu
| subdivision_type2 = Prefecture-level city
| subdivision_name2 = Dingxi
|seat_type = County seat
|seat = Taoyang
| area_code =
| area_total_km2 = 2851
| population =
| population_as_of = 2019
| population_density_km2 = auto
| population_total = 554900
| coordinates = {{coord|35|22|45.92|N|103|51|23.04|E|type:adm3rd_region:CN-62|display=inline}}
| elevation_ft =
| elevation_m =
| timezone = China Standard
| utc_offset = +8
| website = [http://www.lintao.gov.cn/ www.lintao.gov.cn]
| official_name =
| population_urban = 191100
| population_footnotes = [https://www.hongheiku.com/xianjirank/gsxsqrk/8308.html Gansu Provincial Statistical Yearbook 2019]
}}
Lintao County {{zh|s=临洮县 |t=臨洮縣 |p=Líntáo Xiàn}}) is administratively under the control of Dingxi, Gansu province, China. {{citation needed span|In ancient times, Lintao was centered on present day Min County.|date=June 2018}}
History
Pottery from the Majiayao culture (3300 to 2000 BC) has been found in Lintao.{{Cite thesis |last=Hung |first=Ling-Yu |title=Pottery Production, Mortuary Practice, and Social Complexity in the Majiayao Culture, NW China (ca. 5300–4000 BP) |date=December 2011 |publisher=Washington University in St. Louis |url=https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1588&context=etd |doi=10.7936/K72V2D3J}}
Until the 20th century, Lintao was known as Didao ({{lang|zh|狄道}}). The Battle of Didao was fought in the area in 255 CE, during the Three Kingdoms era.
In the 8th century, an anonymous poet of the Tang dynasty places General Geshu Han and the Chinese army in Lintao, battling the Tibetans.{{Cite web|url=https://100tangpoems.wordpress.com/2016/08/27/100-tang-poems/|title = Song of Geshu Han|date = 27 August 2016}} Poet Li Bai references Lintao in his poem, "Ballads of Four Seasons: Winter."{{Cite web|url=https://100tangpoems.wordpress.com/2018/12/29/li-bai-ballad-of-four-seasons-winter/|title = Li Bai – Ballad of Four Seasons: Winter|date = 29 December 2018}}
Located at an important Tao River crossing, Didao City (i.e., today's Taoyang TownUnless the town has actually been moved at some point since...) was an important trade center during the Northern Song dynasty (ca. 11–12th century), when the more northern route of the Silk Route was blocked by the Xi Xia state. It is known to have been home to hundreds of foreign merchants at the time, some of whom may have been the ancestors of today's Hui people of Gansu.{{cite book
|first=Jonathan Neaman |last=Lipman |publisher=Hong Kong University Press |year=1998 |isbn=962-209-468-6
|title=Familiar strangers: a history of Muslims in Northwest China |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=4_FGPtLEoYQC
|page=30}}
Geography
The county is located mostly on the right (eastern) bank of the Tao River, a right tributary of the Yellow River. It borders with Lanzhou, capital of Gansu, in the northeast, with Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture in the west, and with other parts of Dingxi Prefecture-level City in the east and south.
Climate
File:Lintao location, and Great Wall of China.png), at the starting point of the Great Wall of China.{{cite book |last1=Slavicek |first1=Louise Chipley |title=The Great Wall of China |date=2009 |publisher=Infobase Publishing |isbn=978-1-4381-2141-3 |page=52 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EwFYg_twIgYC&pg=PA52 |language=en}}]]
{{Weather box|width=auto
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|collapsed = Y
|location = Lintao, elevation {{convert|1894|m|ft|abbr=on}}, (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–present)
|Jan high C = 1.6
|Feb high C = 6.1
|Mar high C = 11.9
|Apr high C = 18.0
|May high C = 21.6
|Jun high C = 24.6
|Jul high C = 26.6
|Aug high C = 25.7
|Sep high C = 20.9
|Oct high C = 15.3
|Nov high C = 9.0
|Dec high C = 3.1
|Jan mean C = -6.4
|Feb mean C = -1.8
|Mar mean C = 4.0
|Apr mean C = 9.8
|May mean C = 13.7
|Jun mean C = 17.1
|Jul mean C = 19.1
|Aug mean C = 18.4
|Sep mean C = 13.9
|Oct mean C = 8.0
|Nov mean C = 1.2
|Dec mean C = -4.9
|Jan low C = -12.2
|Feb low C = -7.5
|Mar low C = -1.9
|Apr low C = 2.9
|May low C = 6.9
|Jun low C = 10.6
|Jul low C = 13.0
|Aug low C = 12.7
|Sep low C = 8.9
|Oct low C = 3.0
|Nov low C = -3.7
|Dec low C = -10.2
|Jan record high C = 13.4 |Jan record low C = -25.6
|Feb record high C = 21.0 |Feb record low C = -21.9
|Mar record high C = 27.9 |Mar record low C = -13.4
|Apr record high C = 30.9 |Apr record low C = -6.8
|May record high C = 32.8 |May record low C = -2.6
|Jun record high C = 32.1 |Jun record low C = 2.5
|Jul record high C = 36.1 |Jul record low C = 4.3
|Aug record high C = 34.4 |Aug record low C = 4.7
|Sep record high C = 34.0 |Sep record low C = -0.1
|Oct record high C = 25.2 |Oct record low C = -8.2
|Nov record high C = 19.7 |Nov record low C = -15.2
|Dec record high C = 11.7 |Dec record low C = -27.9
|year high C = |year low C =
|year high F = |year low F =
|precipitation colour = green
|Jan precipitation mm = 3.7
|Feb precipitation mm = 5.0
|Mar precipitation mm = 13.2
|Apr precipitation mm = 33.4
|May precipitation mm = 64.4
|Jun precipitation mm = 71.2
|Jul precipitation mm = 101.3
|Aug precipitation mm = 93.4
|Sep precipitation mm = 64.1
|Oct precipitation mm = 36.4
|Nov precipitation mm = 6.9
|Dec precipitation mm = 2.1
|Jan humidity = 62
|Feb humidity = 60
|Mar humidity = 58
|Apr humidity = 57
|May humidity = 63
|Jun humidity = 69
|Jul humidity = 73
|Aug humidity = 75
|Sep humidity = 78
|Oct humidity = 76
|Nov humidity = 72
|Dec humidity = 66
|unit precipitation days = 0.1 mm
|Jan precipitation days = 3.9
|Feb precipitation days = 4.0
|Mar precipitation days = 6.4
|Apr precipitation days = 8.4
|May precipitation days = 11.5
|Jun precipitation days = 12.8
|Jul precipitation days = 13.8
|Aug precipitation days = 12.8
|Sep precipitation days = 12.8
|Oct precipitation days = 9.5
|Nov precipitation days = 3.6
|Dec precipitation days = 2.3
|year precipitation days =
|Jan sun = 198.6
|Feb sun = 193.7
|Mar sun = 217.5
|Apr sun = 228.5
|May sun = 236.7
|Jun sun = 225.6
|Jul sun = 239.0
|Aug sun = 225.2
|Sep sun = 168.1
|Oct sun = 176.4
|Nov sun = 190.7
|Dec sun = 201.8
|year sun =
| Jan percentsun = 63
| Feb percentsun = 62
| Mar percentsun = 58
| Apr percentsun = 58
| May percentsun = 54
| Jun percentsun = 52
| Jul percentsun = 54
| Aug percentsun = 55
| Sep percentsun = 46
| Oct percentsun = 51
| Nov percentsun = 62
| Dec percentsun = 67
| year percentsun =
|Jan snow days = 6.5
|Feb snow days = 6.1
|Mar snow days = 6.0
|Apr snow days = 2.2
|May snow days = 0.2
|Jun snow days = 0
|Jul snow days = 0
|Aug snow days = 0
|Sep snow days = 0
|Oct snow days = 1.4
|Nov snow days = 3.9
|Dec snow days = 4.2
|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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Culture
Lintao is known for its Huashutang candy (花酥糖){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AhAyAAAAMAAJ&q=%E4%B8%B4%E6%B4%AE%E9%85%A5%E7%B3%96|title=甘肃新县志便览|date=1991|publisher=甘肃人民出版社|isbn=978-7-226-00811-9|language=zh}} and Nuo opera.{{Cite web|title=陈惠芬：家乡傩舞那些事 _定西新闻网|url=http://www.dingxidaily.com/2019/0225/71591.shtml|access-date=2021-04-21|website=www.dingxidaily.com}}
Administrative divisions
Lintao County is divided to 12 towns and 6 townships.{{cite web|url=https://www.stats.gov.cn/sj/tjbz/tjyqhdmhcxhfdm/2023/62/11/621124.html|script-title=zh:2023年统计用区划代码和城乡划分代码：临洮县| publisher = National Bureau of Statistics of China| language = zh-hans| access-date =}} The county seat of Lintao County is in Taoyang town.
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Transport
China National Highway 212 and the Lanhai Expressway (G75) cross the county from the north to the south, on its way from Lanzhou to south-eastern Gansu.
A military airfield, Lintao Air Base, is located south of the county seat.
References
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