Shuanghu

This article is about Shuanghu County, Tibet Autonomous Region, PRC. For the village of Shuanghu (双 湖村) in Yangzi Township in Hubei Province, see Shuanghu (Yangzi) .

Tibetan name
Tibetan script : མཚོ་ གཉིས་ དོན་ གཅོད་ ཁྲུའ ུ
Wylie transliteration : mtsho gnyis don gcod khru'u
Official transcription of the PRCh : Conyi Toinjoichu
THDL transcription : Tsonyi Dönchöttru
Other spellings: Tshonyi
Chinese name
Traditional : 雙 湖 縣
Simplified : 双 湖 县
Pinyin : Shuānghú Xiàn

Location of Shuanghu (pink) in Nagqu (yellow) within Tibet (light gray)

Shuanghu is a district of the administrative district of Nagqu in the north east of the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China . Chinese Shuanghu or Tibetan Tshonyi means "two lakes". The district has around 8,000 inhabitants. In November 2012, the former Shuanghu Special District ( 特别 区 ) was converted into a county.

Geography and climate

Shuanghu has an area of ​​116,637 km² and is an average of 4800 m altitude. The highest mountain is the Zaqungngomar with 6304 m. There are numerous lakes here, including the Dogaicoring Qangco with an area of ​​256 km² at an altitude of 4788 m and the Yaggain Co at an altitude of 4978 m.

The climate is extremely stormy, cold and dry, the air is not very oxygenated and the winters are very long. There has been a weather station in the north-west of the district since 1999. The lowest temperature registered there was -62.4 ° C in January 2006. In July 2000, a new maximum temperature of 2.3 ° C was recorded there. Usually the temperatures are between −45 and −5 ° C. There is an average of 2628 hours of sunshine and 150 mm of rainfall per year.

Tshönyi Dontshö Thru'u
Climate diagram
J F. M. A. M. J J A. S. O N D.     0   -29 -43     0   -28 -41     0   -21 -36     0   -16 -29     7th   -9 -15     19th   -4 -10     23   -4 -10     9   -10 -17     3   -16 -25     0   -25 -36     0   -26 -40     0   -28 -40 Temperature in ° C ,  precipitation in mm Source: wetteraktuell.org

Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for Tshönyi Dontshö Thru'u Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Max. Temperature ( ° C ) -28.6 -27.9 -21.3 -15.9 -9.3 -4.2 -3.5 -9.7 -16.4 -24.5 -26.3 -27.9 O −17.9 Min. Temperature (° C) -42.7 -40.6 -36.2 -29.1 -15.3 -10.4 -10.0 -16.7 -25.3 -36.4 -39.5 -40.2 O −28.5 Temperature (° C) -35.7 -34.3 -28.8 -22.5 -12.3 -7.3 -6.8 -13.2 -20.9 -30.5 -32.9 -34.0 O −23.2 Precipitation ( mm ) 0 0 0 0 7th 19th 23 9 3 0 0 0 Σ 61 Rainy days ( d ) 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 1 1 0 0 0 Σ 8th Humidity ( % ) 13.0 12.6 13.2 13.3 15.9 16.8 19.3 19.1 16.3 15.5 14.2 13.4 O 15.2 Source: wetteraktuell.org

Administrative structure

At the community level, the district consists of one large community and six communities . These are (official spelling / Chinese):

• Large municipality of Cozhêlhoma措 折 Groß 镇
• Community Xibdê协德乡
• Community Yagqu雅曲乡
• Garco municipality 嘎 措 乡
• Community Cozhêdangma措折强玛乡
• Domar municipality 多 玛 乡
• Parling parish 巴 岭乡

literature

• Xú Píng 徐 平 , Nàqǔ 那曲 (Nagqu) , Beijing, Wǔzhōu chuánbō chūbǎnshè 五洲 传播 出版社 2000, ISBN 7-80113-400-1 .
• Guojia cèhuìjú diming yánjiūsuǒ 国家测绘局地名研究所 , Xizang diming 西藏地名 / bod ljongs sa ming བོད་ ལྗོངས་ ས་ མིང (Tibetan place names) , Beijing, Zhōngguó Zàngxué chūbǎnshè 中国藏学出版社 1995, ISBN 7-80057-284 -6 .

Footnotes

1. ↑ rtswa chung sngo dmar རྩྭ་ ཆུང་ སྔོ་ དམར / Zhāqióng'èmǎ 扎琼 鄂 玛
2. ↑ rdo sgas mtsho ring byang mtsho རྡོ་ སྐས་ མཚོ་ རིང་ བྱང་ མཚོ / Duōgécuòrén Qiángcuò 多 格 错 仁 强 错
3. ↑ g.yag rgan mtsho གཡག་ རྒན་ མཚོ / Yǎgēn Cuò 雅 根 错 ; not to be confused with Yaggai Co ( g.yag bkas mtsho གཡག་ བཀས་ མཚོ / Yǎgēn Cuò 雅 根 错 ), which means the same in Chinese!

Coordinates: 33 ° 12 '  N , 88 ° 50'  E