Jainca County
Jainca      尖扎县 · གཅན་ཚ་རྫོང་། Chentsa, Jainzha  | |
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![]() Lijiaxia lake in Janica  | |
![]() Jainca County (light red) within Huangnan Prefecture (yellow) and Qinghai  | |
![]() Jainca Location of the seat in Qinghai  | |
| Coordinates: 35°56′18″N 102°02′00″E / 35.93833°N 102.03333°E | |
| Country | China | 
| Province | Qinghai | 
| Autonomous prefecture | Huangnan | 
| County seat | Markhu Thang | 
| Area | |
 • Total  | 1,714 km2 (662 sq mi) | 
| Elevation | 1,990 m (6,530 ft) | 
| Population  (2020)[1]  | |
 • Total  | 58,173 | 
| • Density | 34/km2 (88/sq mi) | 
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) | 
| Postal code | 811200  | 
| Area code | 0973 | 
| Website | www | 
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| Chinese name | |||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 尖扎县 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 尖扎縣 | ||||||
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| Tibetan name | |||||||
| Tibetan | གཅན་ཚ་རྫོང་། | ||||||
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Jainca County, Chentsa County or Jainzha County (Tibetan: གཅན་ཚ།, Wylie: gcan tsha; Chinese: 尖扎县; pinyin: Jiānzhā Xiàn) is a county in Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai Province, China, to Tibetans in the area known as Malho Prefecture, part of Amdo. There are six townships, three towns and a total of 79 administrative villages in Chentsa county. The county has an area of 1,714 square kilometres (662 sq mi) and a population of ~50,000 (2001), 67% Tibetan. The county seat is the town of Markhu Thang.
Administrative divisions
Jainca County is made up of 3 towns and 6 townships:
| Name | Simplified Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | Administrative division code | |
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| Towns | ||||||
| Markhu Thang Town (Markutang, Magitang, Maketang)  |  马克堂镇 | Mǎkètáng Zhèn | མར་ཁུ་ཐང་གྲོང་བརྡལ། | mar khu thang grong brdal | 632322100 | |
| Kangyang Town (Dongna)  |  康扬镇 | Kāngyáng Zhèn | གདོང་སྣ་གྲོང་བརྡལ། | gdong sna grong brdal | 632322101 | |
| Kamra Town (Kanbula)  |  坎布拉镇 | Kǎnbùlā Zhèn | ཁམས་ར་གྲོང་རྡལ། | khams ra grong rdal | 632322102 | |
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| Gya'gya Township (Jiajia)  |  贾加乡 | Jiǎjiā Xiāng | སྐྱ་རྒྱ་ཞང་། | skya rgya zhang | 632322200 | |
| Cozhug Township (Cuozhou)  |  措周乡 | Cuòzhōu Xiāng | ཚོ་དྲུག་ཞང་། | tsho drug zhang | 632322201 | |
| Nangra Township (Angla)  |  昂拉乡 | Ánglā Xiāng | སྣང་ར་ཞང་། | snang ra zhang | 632322202 | |
| Nangkog Township (Nengke)  |  能科乡 | Néngkē Xiāng | ནང་ཁོག་ཞང་། | nang khog zhang | 632322203 | |
| Dêngso Township (Dangshun)  |  当顺乡 | Dàngshùn Xiāng | སྟེང་སོ་ཞང་། | steng so zhang | 632322204 | |
| Jaincatang Township (Jianzhatan)  |  尖扎滩乡 | Jiānzhātān Xiāng | གཅན་ཚ་ཐང་ཞང་། | gcan tsha thang zhang | 632322205 | |
Climate
Jainca County has a cold semi-arid climate (Köppen BSk) and it set the record high temperature of Qinghai, at 40.3 °C (104.5 °F), on July 24, 2000.
| Climate data for Jainca County, elevation 2,086 m (6,844 ft), (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–2010) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year | 
| Record high °C (°F) | 12.7 (54.9)  |  18.2 (64.8)  |  29.5 (85.1)  |  34.5 (94.1)  |  31.6 (88.9)  |  33.1 (91.6)  |  40.3 (104.5)  |  36.0 (96.8)  |  31.9 (89.4)  |  26.0 (78.8)  |  18.9 (66.0)  |  12.8 (55.0)  |  40.3 (104.5)  | 
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 3.1 (37.6)  |  7.2 (45.0)  |  13.0 (55.4)  |  18.9 (66.0)  |  22.2 (72.0)  |  25.2 (77.4)  |  27.2 (81.0)  |  26.3 (79.3)  |  21.4 (70.5)  |  16.2 (61.2)  |  10.3 (50.5)  |  4.5 (40.1)  |  16.3 (61.3)  | 
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −4.7 (23.5)  |  −0.6 (30.9)  |  5.2 (41.4)  |  11.1 (52.0)  |  14.9 (58.8)  |  18.2 (64.8)  |  20.1 (68.2)  |  19.3 (66.7)  |  14.8 (58.6)  |  8.9 (48.0)  |  2.2 (36.0)  |  −3.5 (25.7)  |  8.8 (47.9)  | 
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −10.5 (13.1)  |  −6.6 (20.1)  |  −0.8 (30.6)  |  4.6 (40.3)  |  8.6 (47.5)  |  12.0 (53.6)  |  14.2 (57.6)  |  13.8 (56.8)  |  10.0 (50.0)  |  3.6 (38.5)  |  −3.7 (25.3)  |  −9.2 (15.4)  |  3.0 (37.4)  | 
| Record low °C (°F) | −18.8 (−1.8)  |  −16.4 (2.5)  |  −13.7 (7.3)  |  −6.8 (19.8)  |  −1.5 (29.3)  |  3.5 (38.3)  |  5.6 (42.1)  |  6.9 (44.4)  |  1.2 (34.2)  |  −7.5 (18.5)  |  −14.0 (6.8)  |  −18.7 (−1.7)  |  −18.8 (−1.8)  | 
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 0.8 (0.03)  |  1.0 (0.04)  |  4.4 (0.17)  |  15.5 (0.61)  |  46.5 (1.83)  |  55.0 (2.17)  |  74.7 (2.94)  |  77.6 (3.06)  |  59.2 (2.33)  |  18.5 (0.73)  |  1.3 (0.05)  |  0.3 (0.01)  |  354.8 (13.97)  | 
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 1.0 | 1.4 | 3.2 | 5.3 | 10.0 | 13.3 | 13.4 | 12.1 | 12.9 | 7.1 | 1.5 | 0.5 | 81.7 | 
| Average snowy days | 2.1 | 2.8 | 3.9 | 1.3 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.7 | 2.1 | 1.6 | 14.6 | 
| Average relative humidity (%) | 39 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 48 | 54 | 59 | 60 | 64 | 58 | 46 | 41 | 49 | 
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 205.4 | 203.9 | 233.3 | 243.5 | 246.4 | 230.1 | 239.0 | 229.2 | 186.8 | 210.4 | 213.0 | 207.7 | 2,648.7 | 
| Percentage possible sunshine | 66 | 66 | 62 | 62 | 56 | 53 | 54 | 56 | 51 | 61 | 70 | 69 | 61 | 
| Source: China Meteorological Administration[2][3] | |||||||||||||
See also
References
- ^ "黄南州第七次全国人口普查公报(第二号)——县级常住人口情况" (in Chinese). Government of Huangnan Prefecture. 2021-07-01.
 - ^ 中国气象数据网 – WeatherBk Data (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 27 August 2023.
 - ^ 中国气象数据网 (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 27 August 2023.
 
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