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Mao County

{{Short description|County in Ngawa Prefecture, Sichuan Province, China}}

{{Infobox settlement

|name = Mao County

|native_name = {{nobold|{{lang|zh-hans|茂县}} · {{bo-textonly|མའོ་རྫོང་།}} · Shgvunyi}}

|other_name = Maoxian

|postal_code = 623200

|postal_code_type = Postal code

|seat = Fengyi

|seat_type = County seat

|settlement_type = County

|image_skyline = Overlap brook lake.JPG

|imagesize = 250px

|image_caption = Diexi Lake, in Diexi

|image_map = Location of Mao within Sichuan (China).png

|map_caption = Mao County (red) in Ngawa (yellow) and Sichuan

|mapsize = 250px

|pushpin_map = Sichuan#China

|pushpin_label = Mao County

|pushpin_map_caption = Location of the seat in Sichuan

|subdivision_type = Country

|subdivision_name = China

|subdivision_type1 = Province

|subdivision_name1 = Sichuan

|subdivision_type2 = Autonomous prefecture

|subdivision_name2 = Ngawa

|area_code = 0837

|area_total_km2 = 4064

|population =

|population_as_of = 2020

|population_blank1 = Qiang-88.9%
Han, Tibetan

|population_blank1_title = Major nationalities

|population_density_km2 = auto

|population_total = 95361

| population_footnotes = {{cite web |url = http://www.abazhou.gov.cn/abazhou/abzpcgb/202106/84e6bc7453044a248ad18d1a37fcec38.shtml |title = 阿坝州第七次全国人口普查公报第二号——县（市）人口情况 |publisher = Government of Ngawa Prefecture |language = zh |date = 2021-06-11 }}

|coordinates = {{Coord|31|50|N|103|30|E|type:adm3rd_region:CN-51|display=it}}

|elevation_ft =

|elevation_m =

|timezone = China Standard

|utc_offset = +08:00

|website = {{URL|http://www.maoxian.gov.cn/}}

}}

{{Infobox Chinese

|s=茂县 |t=茂縣

|p=Mào Xiàn

|tib={{bo-textonly|མའོ་རྫོང་།}}

|wylie=ma'o rdzong |zwpy=Mao Zong

|lang1=Qiang

|lang1_content=Shgvunyi

|order=st

}}

Mao County or Maoxian ({{lang-zh|s=茂县}}; {{bo|t=མའོ་རྫོང་།}}; Qiang: Shgvunyi) is a county in Ngawa Prefecture, Sichuan Province, China.

It has an area of 3,903 and a population of 106,700 as of 2006.{{in lang|zh}} [http://www.abazhou.gov.cn/gxzc/gxzc-mao-xqgk.html Profile of Mao County] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080501094858/http://www.abazhou.gov.cn/gxzc/gxzc-mao-xqgk.html |date=2008-05-01 }}, official website of Ngawa Prefecture Government, visited on May 25, 2008. 88.9% of the population are Qiang people.{{in lang|zh}} [http://www.china.com.cn/aboutchina/zhuanti/scdzzq/2008-05/17/content_15289991.htm Mao County: A County with the Most Qiang Population in China], China Internet Information Center, May 17, 2008. The county seat is Fengyi Town.{{in lang|zh}} [http://www.xzqh.org/QUHUA/51sc/3223mx.htm Profile of Mao County].

Natural disasters

In 1933, an earthquake occurred near Diexi.

In 2017, a landslide occurred in Xinmo Village ({{lang|zh-hans|新磨村}}), Diexi.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-40390642|title=China landslide leaves at least 140 missing in Sichuan|publisher=BBC|date=2017-06-24|access-date=2017-06-24}}{{Cite web |title=牵挂·守望·搜救——四川茂县山体垮塌灾害３６小时救援纪实 |date=26 June 2017 |publisher=Xinhua News Agency |url=http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2017-06/26/c_1121207463.htm |language=Chinese}}

Administrative divisions

Mao County has 11 towns.

class="wikitable" align="center" style="width:50%; border="1"
Name

! Simplified Chinese

! Hanyu Pinyin

! Tibetan

! Wylie

! Qiang

! Administrative division code

colspan="8" style="text-align:center; background:#d3d3d3;"|Towns
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| Fengyi Town
(Fünyi)

|{{lang|zh-hans|凤仪镇}}

|{{transl|zh|Fèngyí Zhèn}}

|{{bo-textonly|ཧྥུན་ཡིས་གྲོང་རྡལ།}}

|{{transl|bo|hphun yis grong rdal}}

|

|513223100

Nanxin Town
(Nainxin)

|{{lang|zh-hans|南新镇}}

|{{transl|zh|Nánxīn Zhèn}}

|{{bo-textonly|ནན་ཤིན་གྲོང་རྡལ།}}

|{{transl|bo|nan shin grong rdal}}

|

|513223101

Diexi Town
(Dêxi)

|{{lang|zh-hans|叠溪镇}}

|{{transl|zh|Diéxī Zhèn}}

|{{bo-textonly|ཏེ་ཞི་གྲོང་རྡལ།}}

|{{transl|bo|te zhi grong rdal}}

|

|513223102

Fushun Town
(Foshung)

|{{lang|zh-hans|富顺镇}}

|{{transl|zh|Fùshùn Zhèn}}

|{{bo-textonly|ཧྥོ་ཧྲུང་གྲོང་རྡལ།}}

|{{transl|bo|hpho hrung grong rdal}}

|

|513223105

Tumen Town
(Tumin)

|{{lang|zh-hans|土门镇}}

|{{transl|zh|Tǔmén Zhèn}}

|{{bo-textonly|ཐུའུ་མིན་གྲོང་རྡལ།}}

|{{transl|bo|thu'u min grong rdal}}

|

|513223107

Wadi Town
(Wadü)

|{{lang|zh-hans|洼底镇}}

|{{transl|zh|Wādǐ Zhèn}}

|{{bo-textonly|བ་ཏུས་གྲོང་རྡལ།}}

|{{transl|bo|ba tus grong rdal}}

|Vvuaji

|513223109

Shaba Town

|{{lang|zh-hans|沙坝镇}}

|{{transl|zh|Shābà Zhèn}}

|

|

|Zhewa

|513223110

|-

| Weimen Town
(Wümoin)

|{{lang|zh-hans|渭门镇}}

|{{transl|zh|Wèimén Zhèn}}

|{{bo-textonly|ཝུའེ་མོན་གྲོང་རྡལ།}}

|{{transl|bo|wu'e mon grong rdal}}

|

|513223111

|-

| Heihu Town

|{{lang|zh-hans|黑虎镇}}

|{{transl|zh|Hēihǔ Zhèn}}

|{{bo-textonly|ཧྭེ་ཧུའུ་གྲོང་རྡལ།}}

|{{transl|bo|hwe hu'u grong rdal}}

|

|513223112

|-

| Goukou Town

|{{lang|zh-hans|沟口镇}}

|{{transl|zh|Gōukǒu Zhèn}}

|{{bo-textonly|གུག་ཁུག་གྲོང་རྡལ།}}

|{{transl|bo|gug khug grong rdal}}

|

|513223113

|-

| Chibusu Town

|{{lang|zh-hans|赤不苏镇}}

|{{transl|zh|Chìbúsū Zhèn}}

|{{bo-textonly|ཁྲི་པུའུ་སུའུ་གྲོང་རྡལ།}}

|{{transl|bo|khri pu'u su'u grong rdal}}

| Shbuvs

|513223114

|-

|}

Transport

Climate

{{Weather box|width=auto

|metric first=y

|single line=y

|collapsed = Y

|location = Maoxian, elevation {{convert|1590|m|ft|abbr=on}}, (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–2010)

|Jan high C = 5.9

|Feb high C = 8.1

|Mar high C = 12.4

|Apr high C = 17.8

|May high C = 21.0

|Jun high C = 23.7

|Jul high C = 25.8

|Aug high C = 25.4

|Sep high C = 21.4

|Oct high C = 16.6

|Nov high C = 12.6

|Dec high C = 7.8

|Jan mean C = 1.1

|Feb mean C = 3.3

|Mar mean C = 7.3

|Apr mean C = 12.2

|May mean C = 15.8

|Jun mean C = 18.7

|Jul mean C = 20.9

|Aug mean C = 20.5

|Sep mean C = 16.9

|Oct mean C = 12.2

|Nov mean C = 7.4

|Dec mean C = 2.5

|Jan low C = -2.4

|Feb low C = 0.0

|Mar low C = 3.6

|Apr low C = 7.8

|May low C = 11.4

|Jun low C = 14.5

|Jul low C = 16.7

|Aug low C = 16.5

|Sep low C = 13.7

|Oct low C = 9.2

|Nov low C = 3.6

|Dec low C = -1.3

|Jan record high C = 18.2 |Jan record low C = -11.5

|Feb record high C = 26.3 |Feb record low C = -10.4

|Mar record high C = 29.0 |Mar record low C = -8.5

|Apr record high C = 28.3 |Apr record low C = -0.7

|May record high C = 30.3 |May record low C = 2.2

|Jun record high C = 29.7 |Jun record low C = 7.0

|Jul record high C = 32.2 |Jul record low C = 9.9

|Aug record high C = 31.6 |Aug record low C = 7.8

|Sep record high C = 29.4 |Sep record low C = 4.5

|Oct record high C = 25.6 |Oct record low C = -0.9

|Nov record high C = 22.8 |Nov record low C = -5.4

|Dec record high C = 20.4 |Dec record low C = -10.4

|year high C= |year low C=

|year high F = |year low F =

|precipitation colour = green

|Jan precipitation mm = 3.2

|Feb precipitation mm = 5.7

|Mar precipitation mm = 22.6

|Apr precipitation mm = 49.1

|May precipitation mm = 67.6

|Jun precipitation mm = 79.0

|Jul precipitation mm = 70.0

|Aug precipitation mm = 71.8

|Sep precipitation mm = 52.6

|Oct precipitation mm = 41.3

|Nov precipitation mm = 9.8

|Dec precipitation mm = 1.9

|Jan humidity = 68

|Feb humidity = 70

|Mar humidity = 71

|Apr humidity = 71

|May humidity = 73

|Jun humidity = 77

|Jul humidity = 77

|Aug humidity = 77

|Sep humidity = 80

|Oct humidity = 80

|Nov humidity = 76

|Dec humidity = 70

|unit precipitation days = 0.1 mm

|Jan precipitation days = 6.6

|Feb precipitation days = 7.8

|Mar precipitation days = 12.5

|Apr precipitation days = 15.7

|May precipitation days = 18.2

|Jun precipitation days = 18.1

|Jul precipitation days = 15.8

|Aug precipitation days = 14.2

|Sep precipitation days = 15.1

|Oct precipitation days = 16.1

|Nov precipitation days = 6.5

|Dec precipitation days = 3.7

|year precipitation days =

|Jan sun = 133.2

|Feb sun = 114.2

|Mar sun = 128.2

|Apr sun = 149.1

|May sun = 148.2

|Jun sun = 123.7

|Jul sun = 144.3

|Aug sun = 150.4

|Sep sun = 92.9

|Oct sun = 92.3

|Nov sun = 125.5

|Dec sun = 134.7

|year sun =

| Jan percentsun = 42

| Feb percentsun = 36

| Mar percentsun = 34

| Apr percentsun = 38

| May percentsun = 35

| Jun percentsun = 29

| Jul percentsun = 34

| Aug percentsun = 37

| Sep percentsun = 25

| Oct percentsun = 26

| Nov percentsun = 40

| Dec percentsun = 43

| year percentsun =

|Jan snow days = 14.9

|Feb snow days = 11.1

|Mar snow days = 4.1

|Apr snow days = 0.3

|May snow days = 0

|Jun snow days = 0

|Jul snow days = 0

|Aug snow days = 0

|Sep snow days = 0

|Oct snow days = 0

|Nov snow days = 1.4

|Dec snow days = 7.9

|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=13 April 2023}}

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}}

References

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