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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

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

Climate data for Datong (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

See also

References

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

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