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Datong Hui and Tu Autonomous County

Coordinates: 37°05′38″N 101°27′32″E / 37.0939°N 101.459°E / 37.0939; 101.459
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Datong County
大通县 གསེར་ཁོག་རྫོང་།
大通回族土族自治县 རྟ་ཐང་ཧུའེ་རིགས་ཧོར་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་རྫོང་། · دَاتْو خُوِذُو تُوذُو ذِجِشِیًا‎ · Daatun Hui szarbaten Mongghul szarbaten njeenaa daglagu xan
Datong Hui and Tu Autonomous County
Looking west over Datong town from Mt Laoye
Looking west over Datong town from Mt Laoye
Location of the county (red) in Xining City (yellow) and Qinghai
Location of the county (red) in Xining City (yellow) and Qinghai
Map
Location of Datong
CountryChina
ProvinceQinghai
Prefecture-level cityXining
SeatQiaotou Town
Area
 • Total3,090 km2 (1,190 sq mi)
Elevation
2,442 m (8,012 ft)
Population
 (2020)
 • Total403,368
 • Density130/km2 (340/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Datong Hui and Tu Autonomous County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese大通回族土族自治县
Traditional Chinese大通回族土族自治縣
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinDàtōng Huízú Tǔzú Zìzhìxiàn
Tibetan name
Tibetanརྟ་ཐང་ཧུའེ་རིགས་ཧོར་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་རྫོང་། or གསེར་ཁོག་རྫོང་།
Transcriptions
Wylieta thung huʼe rigs hor rigs rang skyong rdzong or gser khog rdzong

Datong Hui and Tu Autonomous County, Datong County, or Serkhog County (simplified Chinese: 大通回族土族自治县; traditional Chinese: 大通回族土族自治縣; pinyin: Dàtōng Huízú Tǔzú Zìzhìxiàn; Tibetan: རྟ་ཐང་ཧུའེ་རིགས་ཧོར་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་རྫོང; or more frequently Tibetan: གསེར་ཁོག་རྫོང; Monguor: Daatun Hui szarbaten Mongghul szarbaten njeenaa daglagu xan; Xiao'erjing: 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.[1][2][3][4][5]

"Mount Laoye" as seen from Datong

Since 2009, a folk music "Flower Festival" has been held annually in late July on "Mount Laoye" (2928 m) in Datong town.[6]

Subdivisions

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Datong County is divided into 9 towns, 9 townships, and 2 ethnic townships:

  • Qiaotou Town (桥头镇)
  • Chengguan Town (城关镇)
  • Tar Town (塔尔镇)
  • Huangjiazhai Town (黄家寨镇)
  • Changning Town (长宁镇)
  • Jingyang Town (景阳镇)
  • Duolin Town (多林镇)
  • Xinzhuang Town (新庄镇)
  • Qinglin Township (青林乡)
  • Xunrang Township (逊让乡)
  • Jile Township (极乐乡)
  • Shishan Township (石山乡)
  • Baoku Township (宝库乡)
  • Xiegou Township (斜沟乡)
  • Liangjiao Township (良教乡)
  • Hualin Township (桦林乡)
  • Xangba Tibetan Ethnic Township (向化藏族乡, ཞང་དཔའ་བོད་རིགས་ཞང་།)
  • Shobê Tibetan Ethnic Township (朔北藏族乡, ཧྲོ་པེ་བོད་རིགས་ཞང་།)

Climate

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Climate data for Datong, elevation 2,450 m (8,040 ft), (1993–2020 normals)
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) 0.9
(33.6)
4.8
(40.6)
9.7
(49.5)
15.2
(59.4)
18.7
(65.7)
21.4
(70.5)
23.4
(74.1)
22.5
(72.5)
18.2
(64.8)
13.1
(55.6)
7.4
(45.3)
2.2
(36.0)
13.1
(55.6)
Daily mean °C (°F) −8.4
(16.9)
−4.1
(24.6)
1.5
(34.7)
7.2
(45.0)
11.2
(52.2)
14.2
(57.6)
16.2
(61.2)
15.3
(59.5)
11.2
(52.2)
5.6
(42.1)
−1.0
(30.2)
−6.9
(19.6)
5.2
(41.3)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) −15.7
(3.7)
−11.3
(11.7)
−4.9
(23.2)
0.3
(32.5)
4.4
(39.9)
7.8
(46.0)
10.1
(50.2)
9.8
(49.6)
6.3
(43.3)
0.4
(32.7)
−6.9
(19.6)
−13.8
(7.2)
−1.1
(30.0)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 2.1
(0.08)
2.1
(0.08)
14.5
(0.57)
33.1
(1.30)
66.1
(2.60)
86.1
(3.39)
99.4
(3.91)
115.1
(4.53)
82.8
(3.26)
28.5
(1.12)
5
(0.2)
1.4
(0.06)
536.2
(21.1)
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) 3.7 4.2 6.5 8.2 13.0 16.5 17.1 17.4 16.5 9.1 3.5 3.1 118.8
Average snowy days 5.8 6.9 9.4 5.9 1.1 0 0 0 0 3.0 5.3 5.1 42.5
Average relative humidity (%) 51 47 48 50 56 64 69 72 74 67 60 55 59
Mean monthly sunshine hours 200.9 200.2 227.4 230.9 237.1 218.6 221.9 211.1 175.8 196.1 204.1 197.9 2,522
Percent possible sunshine 65 65 61 58 54 50 50 51 48 57 68 66 58
Source: China Meteorological Administration[7][8]

Transportation

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See also

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References

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  2. ^ "༄༅༎མཐའ་ཚད་སྐྱོང་བ། དྲ་མིག་དམ་གཏོང་། ལམ་སྲོལ་འཛུགས་པ།--མི་དམངས་དྲ་བ།--人民网". tibet.people.com.cn 人民网藏语版. Retrieved 2023-08-10.
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  4. ^ 阳光西藏. "ལོ་༢༣བྲོས་བྱོལ་དུ་སོང་བའི་མི་གསོད་ལག་དམར་ཞིག་བཟུང་འདུག". Weixin Official Accounts Platform. Retrieved 2023-08-10.
  5. ^ "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།". www.qhtibetan.com. Retrieved 2023-08-10.
  6. ^ Qinghai to hold 3rd flower festival China Internet Information Center June 5, 2012
  7. ^ 中国气象数据网 – WeatherBk Data (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 27 September 2023.
  8. ^ 中国气象数据网 (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 27 September 2023.

37°05′38″N 101°27′32″E / 37.0939°N 101.459°E / 37.0939; 101.459