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Xiahe County

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{{Infobox settlement

|name = Xiahe County

|native_name = {{lang|zh-hans|夏河县}} · {{bo-textonly|བསང་ཆུ་རྫོང་།}}

|other_name = Sangqu

|postal_code =747100

|postal_code_type = Postal code

|settlement_type = County

|image_skyline = Labrang.JPG

|imagesize =

|image_caption = Labrang Monastery

|image_map = Location of Xiahe within Gansu (China).png

|map_caption = Xiahe County (red) within Gannan Prefecture (yellow) and Gansu

|pushpin_map = Gansu#China

|pushpin_label = Xiahe

|pushpin_label_position =

|coor_pinpoint = Xiahe County government

|coordinates = {{coord|35|12|00|N|102|31|03|E|type:adm3rd_region:CN-62|display=it}}

|subdivision_type = Country

|subdivision_name = China

|subdivision_type1 = Province

|subdivision_name1 = Gansu

|subdivision_type2 = Autonomous prefecture

|subdivision_name2 = Gannan

| seat_type = County seat

| seat = Labrang

|area_code =

|area_land_km2 =

|area_total_km2 =6274

|area_water_km2 =

|population =

|population_as_of = 2020

|population_density_km2 = auto

|population_total =86355

| population_footnotes = {{cite web |url = http://tjj.gnzrmzf.gov.cn/info/1194/5848.htm |title =甘南州第七次全国人口普查公报 |publisher = Government of Gannan Prefecture |language = zh |date = 2021-05-27 }}

|leader_name =

|leader_title =

|elevation_ft =

|elevation_m =

|elevation_max_m =

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|timezone = China Standard

|utc_offset = +8

|website = {{URL|www.xiahe.gov.cn}}

}}

{{Infobox Chinese

|order=st

|s=夏河县

|t=夏河縣

|p=Xiàhé Xiàn

|tib={{bo-textonly|བསང་ཆུ་རྫོང་།}}

|wylie=bsang chu rdzong

|zwpy=Sangchu Zong

}}

Xiahe County ({{lang-zh|s=夏河县}}; {{bo|t=བསང་ཆུ་རྫོང་།}}) is a county in Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu province, China, bordering Qinghai province to the west. The name (both Chinese and Tibetan), which literally means "Xia River", refers to the Daxia River which runs through the county. It is home to the famed Labrang Tibetan Buddhist monastery, one of the largest Tibetan Buddhist monasteries outside the Tibet Autonomous Region. The town is populated largely by ethnic Tibetans, as well as some Hui and Han Chinese. The area is highly rural and pastoral (including yak and other animal rearing). The geography is mountainous. In recent years it has become a tourist attraction. The county was named Xiahe in 1928, after the Daxia River that flows through its territory.

File:Xiahe school.JPG

File:North of Xiahe town.jpg

History

Xiahe (Sangqu) used to be part of Qinghai when it was under the control of Chinese Muslim General Ma Qi.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WltwAAAAMAAJ&q=sichuan+reassert |title=China's inner Asian frontier: photographs of the Wulsin expedition to northwest China in 1923 : from the archives of the Peabody Museum, Harvard University, and the National Geographic Society |author=Frederick Roelker Wulsin, Joseph Fletcher, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, National Geographic Society (U.S.), Peabody Museum of Salem |editor=Mary Ellen Alonso |year=1979 |publisher=The Museum : distributed by Harvard University Press |edition=illustrated |page=49 |isbn=0-674-11968-1 |access-date=28 June 2010 |archive-date=4 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210204050407/https://books.google.com/books?id=WltwAAAAMAAJ&q=sichuan+reassert |url-status=live }} It was the site of bloody battles between Muslim and Tibetan forces.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YJqPc4tqSGEC&q=joseph+rock+labrang+severed+heads+of+tibetan+skeletons+work+of+ma&pg=PT253 |title=Unbound: A True Story of War, Love, and Survival |author=Dean King |year=2010 |publisher=Hachette Digital, Inc. |edition=illustrated |isbn=978-0-316-16708-6 |access-date=28 June 2010 |archive-date=29 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210929155935/https://books.google.com/books?id=YJqPc4tqSGEC&q=joseph+rock+labrang+severed+heads+of+tibetan+skeletons+work+of+ma&pg=PT253 |url-status=live }}{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OzEOKNPsv2EC&q=joseph+rock+tibetan+heads&pg=PA4 |title=Peoples of the Buddhist world: a Christian prayer diary |author=Paul Hattaway |year=2004 |publisher=William Carey Library |page=4 |isbn=0-87808-361-8 |access-date=29 May 2011 |archive-date=29 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210929165358/https://books.google.com/books?id=OzEOKNPsv2EC&q=joseph+rock+tibetan+heads&pg=PA4 |url-status=live }}{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YszV1u_VCGAC&q=joseph+rock+tibetan+heads&pg=PA175 |title=Kingdom of Ten Thousand Things: An Impossible Journey from Kabul to Chiapas |author=Gary Geddes |year=2008 |publisher=Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. |edition=illustrated |page=175 |isbn=978-1-4027-5344-2 |access-date=29 May 2011 |archive-date=30 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210930115516/https://books.google.com/books?id=YszV1u_VCGAC&q=joseph+rock+tibetan+heads&pg=PA175 |url-status=live }}

In 1980, Xiahe mandible, a hominin fossil jaw, was discovered in Baishiya Karst Cave, Xiahe County.

Location

Xiahe (Sangqu) is found in the southern portion of Gansu province, along the western border with Qinghai province. It lies along the Daxia and Zhao rivers. It is on the northeast edge of the Tibetan Plateau. The average elevation is {{cvt|2900|to|3100|m|feet|-2}} with the highest being {{cvt|4636|m|feet|0}} and the lowest {{cvt|2160|m|feet|0}}.

=Climate=

Xiahe County has an alpine subarctic climate (Köppen Dwc) that grades into an alpine climate (ETH) at the highest elevations. The climate is characterised by mild, rainy summers and frigid, but dry and sunny, winters.

{{Weather box|width=auto

|metric first=y

|single line=y

|collapsed = Y

|location = Xiahe, elevation {{convert|2948|m|ft|abbr=on}}, (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–2010)

|Jan high C = 2.2

|Feb high C = 4.8

|Mar high C = 8.6

|Apr high C = 13.1

|May high C = 15.9

|Jun high C = 18.7

|Jul high C = 20.9

|Aug high C = 20.6

|Sep high C = 16.7

|Oct high C = 12.0

|Nov high C = 7.9

|Dec high C = 3.8

|Jan mean C = -8.0

|Feb mean C = -4.9

|Mar mean C = -0.3

|Apr mean C = 4.7

|May mean C = 8.5

|Jun mean C = 11.9

|Jul mean C = 13.9

|Aug mean C = 13.3

|Sep mean C = 9.5

|Oct mean C = 4.0

|Nov mean C = -1.8

|Dec mean C = -6.7

|Jan low C = -15.2

|Feb low C = -11.9

|Mar low C = -6.6

|Apr low C = -1.6

|May low C = 2.7

|Jun low C = 6.4

|Jul low C = 8.5

|Aug low C = 8.1

|Sep low C = 4.8

|Oct low C = -1.0

|Nov low C = -8.1

|Dec low C = -13.8

|Jan record high C = 16.0 |Jan record low C = -24.8

|Feb record high C = 18.8 |Feb record low C = -22.9

|Mar record high C = 23.8 |Mar record low C = -19.9

|Apr record high C = 29.1 |Apr record low C = -11.8

|May record high C = 26.4 |May record low C = -9.4

|Jun record high C = 28.2 |Jun record low C = -1.4

|Jul record high C = 30.7 |Jul record low C = 1.3

|Aug record high C = 29.2 |Aug record low C = -0.4

|Sep record high C = 28.6 |Sep record low C = -5.5

|Oct record high C = 23.8 |Oct record low C = -12.4

|Nov record high C = 18.4 |Nov record low C = -19.0

|Dec record high C = 14.5 |Dec record low C = -26.0

|year high C = |year low C =

|year high F = |year low F =

|precipitation colour = green

|Jan precipitation mm = 2.9

|Feb precipitation mm = 4.2

|Mar precipitation mm = 11.1

|Apr precipitation mm = 26.1

|May precipitation mm = 60.7

|Jun precipitation mm = 65.3

|Jul precipitation mm = 96.4

|Aug precipitation mm = 81.5

|Sep precipitation mm = 72.4

|Oct precipitation mm = 31.6

|Nov precipitation mm = 4.3

|Dec precipitation mm = 1.3

|Jan humidity = 45

|Feb humidity = 47

|Mar humidity = 51

|Apr humidity = 55

|May humidity = 61

|Jun humidity = 67

|Jul humidity = 71

|Aug humidity = 73

|Sep humidity = 74

|Oct humidity = 68

|Nov humidity = 53

|Dec humidity = 44

|unit precipitation days = 0.1 mm

|Jan precipitation days = 3.6

|Feb precipitation days = 4.8

|Mar precipitation days = 7.9

|Apr precipitation days = 10.2

|May precipitation days = 15.5

|Jun precipitation days = 17.5

|Jul precipitation days = 17.2

|Aug precipitation days = 15.7

|Sep precipitation days = 16.3

|Oct precipitation days = 11.6

|Nov precipitation days = 3.3

|Dec precipitation days = 2.0

|year precipitation days =

|Jan sun = 192.5

|Feb sun = 187.4

|Mar sun = 215.2

|Apr sun = 218.1

|May sun = 208.2

|Jun sun = 189.7

|Jul sun = 207.4

|Aug sun = 203.2

|Sep sun = 164.7

|Oct sun = 184.8

|Nov sun = 196.1

|Dec sun = 194.8

|year sun =

| Jan percentsun = 61

| Feb percentsun = 60

| Mar percentsun = 58

| Apr percentsun = 55

| May percentsun = 48

| Jun percentsun = 44

| Jul percentsun = 47

| Aug percentsun = 49

| Sep percentsun = 45

| Oct percentsun = 54

| Nov percentsun = 64

| Dec percentsun = 64

| year percentsun =

|Jan snow days = 5.7

|Feb snow days = 7.2

|Mar snow days = 11.2

|Apr snow days = 9.7

|May snow days = 3.5

|Jun snow days = 0.4

|Jul snow days = 0.1

|Aug snow days = 0.1

|Sep snow days = 0.7

|Oct snow days = 6.5

|Nov snow days = 5.5

|Dec snow days = 3.8

|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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}}

Administrative divisions

Xiahe County is divided to 8 towns and 5 townships.{{cite web |url=http://www.stats.gov.cn/sj/tjbz/tjyqhdmhcxhfdm/2022/62/30/623027.html |script-title=zh:2022年统计用区划代码和城乡划分代码：夏河县 |trans-title=2022 Statistical Area Numbers and Rural-Urban Area Numbers: Xiahe County |publisher=National Bureau of Statistics of the People's Republic of China |date=2022 |access-date=}}

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Name

! Simplified Chinese

! Hanyu Pinyin

! Tibetan

! Wylie

! Administrative division code

colspan="7" style="text-align:center; background:#d3d3d3;"|Towns
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| Labrang Town
(Lazhang, Labuleng)

| {{lang|zh-hans|拉卜楞镇}}

| {{Transliteration|zh|Lābǔléng Zhèn}}

| {{bo-textonly|བླ་བྲང་གྲོང་རྡལ།}}

| {{Transliteration|bo|bla brang grong rdal}}

| 623027100

Panggurtang Town
(Wangge'ertang)

| {{lang|zh-hans|王格尔塘镇}}

| {{Transliteration|zh|Wánggé'ěrtáng Zhèn}}

| {{bo-textonly|བང་གུར་ཐང་གྲོང་རྡལ།}}

| {{Transliteration|bo|bang gur thang grong rdal}}

| 623027101

Amqog Town
(Amuquhu)

| {{lang|zh-hans|阿木去乎镇}}

| {{Transliteration|zh|Āmùqùhū Zhèn}}

| {{bo-textonly|ཨ་མཆོག་གྲོང་རྡལ།}}

| {{Transliteration|bo|a mchog grong rdal}}

| 623027102

Sangkog Town
(Sangke)

| {{lang|zh-hans|桑科镇}}

| {{Transliteration|zh|Sāngkē Zhèn}}

| {{bo-textonly|བསང་ཁོག་གྲོང་རྡལ།}}

| {{Transliteration|bo|bsang khog grong rdal}}

| 623027103

Gain'gya Town
(Ganjia)

| {{lang|zh-hans|甘加镇}}

| {{Transliteration|zh|Gānjiā Zhèn}}

| {{bo-textonly|རྒན་གྱ་གྲོང་རྡལ།}}

| {{Transliteration|bo|rgan gya grong rdal}}

| 623027104

Martang Town
(Madang)

| {{lang|zh-hans|麻当镇}}

| {{Transliteration|zh|Mádāng Zhèn}}

| {{bo-textonly|མར་ཐང་གྲོང་རྡལ།}}

| {{Transliteration|bo|mar thang grong rdal}}

| 623027105

Bora Town
(Bola)

| {{lang|zh-hans|博拉镇}}

| {{Transliteration|zh|Bólā Zhèn}}

| {{bo-textonly|འབོ་ར་གྲོང་རྡལ།}}

| {{Transliteration|bo|'bo ra grong rdal}}

| 623027106

Kocê Town
(Kecai)

| {{lang|zh-hans|科才镇}}

| {{Transliteration|zh|Kēcái Zhèn}}

| {{bo-textonly|ཁོ་ཚེ་གྲོང་རྡལ།}}

| {{Transliteration|bo|kho tshe grong rdal}}

| 623027107

colspan="7" style="text-align:center; background:#d3d3d3;"|Townships
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| Damê Township
(Damai)

| {{lang|zh-hans|达麦乡}}

| {{Transliteration|zh|Dámài Xiāng}}

| {{bo-textonly|མདའ་མེད་ཤང་།}}

| {{Transliteration|bo|mda' med shang}}

| 623027202

Qu'ngoin Township
(Qu'ao)

| {{lang|zh-hans|曲奥乡}}

| {{Transliteration|zh|Qū'ào Xiāng}}

| {{bo-textonly|ཆུ་སྔོན་ཤང་།}}

| {{Transliteration|bo|chu sngon shang}}

| 623027204

Tanggarnang Township
(Tangga'ang)

| {{lang|zh-hans|唐尕昂乡}}

| {{Transliteration|zh|Tánggǎ'áng Xiāng}}

| {{bo-textonly|ཐང་དཀར་ནང་ཤང་།}}

| {{Transliteration|bo|thang dkar nang shang}}

| 623027205

Jayü Township
(Zhayou)

| {{lang|zh-hans|扎油乡}}

| {{Transliteration|zh|Zhāyóu Xiāng}}

| {{bo-textonly|ཅ་ཡུས་ཤང་།}}

| {{Transliteration|bo|ca yus shang}}

| 623027206

Gyicang Township
(Jicang)

| {{lang|zh-hans|吉仓乡}}

| {{Transliteration|zh|Jícāng Xiāng}}

| {{bo-textonly|སྐྱིས་ཚང་ཤང་།}}

| {{Transliteration|bo|skyis tshang shang}}

| 623027208

References

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External links

{{wikivoyage|Xiahe}}

  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20080923071401/http://www.labuleng.com.cn/ People's Government of Xiahe Official Website] Chinese version
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20080923071405/http://www.labuleng.com.cn/english/default1.asp People's Government of Xiahe Official Website] English version
  • [http://alexuk.com/travel/htk/index_17.htm Journey through China] - A site with numerous pictures of Xiahe.
  • [http://www.synaptic.bc.ca/gallery/xiahe.htm The Nomadic Spirit – Picture Gallery of Xiahe]

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