Madoi County
Madoi County (Tibetan: རྨ་སྟོད་རྫོང; Chinese: 玛多县; also Matö County or Maduo County) is a county of Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, in southeast-central Qinghai province, bordering Sichuan to the south. Its area is about 25,000 km2 (9,700 sq mi), and with an average elevation of 4,300 m (14,000 ft) it is the highest Chinese county by average elevation. In Madoi County is the upper stream of the Yellow River which flows to Ngoring and Gyaring lake.
Madoi County
རྨ་སྟོད་རྫོང · 玛多县 Matö, Maduo | |
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.png.webp) Madoi County (light red) within Golog Prefecture (yellow) and Qinghai | |
  Madoi County Location in Qinghai | |
| Coordinates: 34°42′N 98°13′E | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Qinghai |
| Autonomous prefecture | Golog |
| County seat | Machali |
| Area | |
| • Total | 25,253 km2 (9,750 sq mi) |
| Population (2020)[1] | |
| • Total | 14,490 |
| • Density | 0.57/km2 (1.5/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Website | www |
| Madoi County | |||||||
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| Chinese name | |||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 玛多县 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 瑪多縣 | ||||||
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| Tibetan name | |||||||
| Tibetan | རྨ་སྟོད་རྫོང | ||||||
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Geography and Climate
With an elevation of around 4,300 m (14,000 ft), Madoi County has an alpine climate (Köppen EH), with long, bitterly cold and very dry winters, and brief, rainy, cool summers. Average low temperatures are below freezing from early September to mid June; however, due to the wide diurnal temperature variation, average highs are only below freezing from early November thru mid March. Despite frequent rain during summer, when a majority of days sees rain, no month has less than 50% of possible sunshine; with monthly percent possible sunshine ranging from 53% in June to 79% in November, the county seat receives 2,838 hours of bright sunshine annually. The monthly 24-hour average temperature ranges from −15.7 °C (3.7 °F) in January to 8.0 °C (46.4 °F) in July, while the annual mean is −3.33 °C (26.0 °F), making the county seat one of the coldest locales nationwide in terms of annual mean temperature. Nearly three-fourths of the annual precipitation of 332 mm (13.1 in) is delivered from June to September.
| Climate data for Madoi County (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1971–2010) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 4.2 (39.6) |
7.6 (45.7) |
11.5 (52.7) |
16.2 (61.2) |
18.7 (65.7) |
22.4 (72.3) |
24.3 (75.7) |
23.2 (73.8) |
20.2 (68.4) |
17.9 (64.2) |
6.0 (42.8) |
5.4 (41.7) |
24.3 (75.7) |
| Average high °C (°F) | −6.7 (19.9) |
−3.5 (25.7) |
0.3 (32.5) |
5.1 (41.2) |
8.7 (47.7) |
11.7 (53.1) |
14.4 (57.9) |
14.4 (57.9) |
10.8 (51.4) |
4.4 (39.9) |
−1.5 (29.3) |
−5.4 (22.3) |
4.4 (39.9) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −15.2 (4.6) |
−11.8 (10.8) |
−7.6 (18.3) |
−2.2 (28.0) |
2.1 (35.8) |
5.8 (42.4) |
8.4 (47.1) |
8.0 (46.4) |
4.3 (39.7) |
−2.3 (27.9) |
−9.5 (14.9) |
−14.2 (6.4) |
−2.8 (26.9) |
| Average low °C (°F) | −22.1 (−7.8) |
−18.7 (−1.7) |
−13.9 (7.0) |
−8.3 (17.1) |
−3.3 (26.1) |
0.9 (33.6) |
3.3 (37.9) |
2.9 (37.2) |
−0.3 (31.5) |
−6.9 (19.6) |
−15.6 (3.9) |
−21.1 (−6.0) |
−8.6 (16.5) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −37.9 (−36.2) |
−36.3 (−33.3) |
−32.4 (−26.3) |
−19.7 (−3.5) |
−20.0 (−4.0) |
−7.1 (19.2) |
−3.7 (25.3) |
−6.2 (20.8) |
−11.4 (11.5) |
−23.0 (−9.4) |
−33.3 (−27.9) |
−38.8 (−37.8) |
−38.8 (−37.8) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 4.2 (0.17) |
4.6 (0.18) |
8.9 (0.35) |
12.1 (0.48) |
35.1 (1.38) |
64.2 (2.53) |
77.3 (3.04) |
69.3 (2.73) |
47.8 (1.88) |
20.1 (0.79) |
4.7 (0.19) |
2.3 (0.09) |
350.6 (13.81) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 6.3 | 7.5 | 9.6 | 9.7 | 15.5 | 17.7 | 18.1 | 15.4 | 16.4 | 12.3 | 5.2 | 4.1 | 137.8 |
| Average snowy days | 9.4 | 9.9 | 13.1 | 13.0 | 17.2 | 10.7 | 4.5 | 4.1 | 11.1 | 15.6 | 7.9 | 5.8 | 122.3 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 51 | 47 | 48 | 47 | 56 | 64 | 65 | 64 | 65 | 60 | 52 | 48 | 56 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 229.3 | 213.8 | 248.2 | 261.2 | 252.4 | 216.2 | 237.7 | 237.0 | 215.5 | 241.5 | 238.5 | 236.9 | 2,828.2 |
| Percent possible sunshine | 73 | 69 | 66 | 66 | 58 | 50 | 54 | 58 | 59 | 70 | 78 | 78 | 65 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration[2][3][4] | |||||||||||||
Administrative divisions
Madoi is divided into two towns and two townships:
| Name | Simplified Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | Administrative division code | |
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| Towns | ||||||
| Machali Town | 玛查理镇 | Mǎchálǐ Zhèn | རྨ་ཕྲ་ལི་གྲོང་བརྡལ། | rma phra li grong brdal | 632626100 | |
| Zora Town (Huashixia) |
花石峡镇 | Huāshíxiá Zhèn | མཛོ་རྭ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | mdzo rwa grong rdal | 632626101 | |
| Townships | ||||||
| Maqu Township (Huanghe) |
黄河乡 | Huánghé Xiāng | རྨ་ཆུ་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | rma chu yul tsho | 632626200 | |
| Co'gyarêng Township (Zhalinghu) |
扎陵湖乡 | Zhālínghú Xiāng | མཚོ་སྐྱ་རེངས་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | mtsho skya rengs yul tsho | 632626201 | |
References
- "果洛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 Hainan Prefecture. 2021-07-09.
- 中国气象数据网 – WeatherBk Data (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 27 September 2023.
- 中国气象数据网 (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 27 September 2023.
- 中国地面国际交换站气候标准值月值数据集（1971－2000年）. China Meteorological Administration. Archived from the original on 2013-09-21. Retrieved 2010-05-25.