Lhari County

Lhari County (Tibetan: ལྷ་རི་རྫོང་།; Chinese: 嘉黎县) is a small county within the prefecture-level city of Nagqu in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.

Lhari County 嘉黎县 • ལྷ་རི་རྫོང་།
County
Location of Lhari County (red) within Nagqu City (yellow) and the Tibet Autonomous Region
Lhari Location of the seat in the Tibet Autonomous Region Show map of Tibet Lhari Lhari (China) Show map of China
Coordinates: 31°05′22″N 92°54′02″E
Country	China
Autonomous Region	Tibet
Prefecture-level city	Nagqu
County seat	Arza
Area
• Total	13,068.68 km2 (5,045.85 sq mi)
Population  (2020)[1]
• Total	38,797
• Density	3.0/km2 (7.7/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Website	www.xzjial.gov.cn

Lhari County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	嘉黎县
Traditional Chinese	嘉黎縣
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Jiālí Xiàn
Tibetan name
Tibetan	ལྷ་རི་རྫོང་།
Transcriptions Wylie lha ri rdzong Tibetan Pinyin Lhari Zong

The 11th Dalai Lama was born in Lhari County, as were both of the rival candidates for the position of the current Panchen Lama.^[2]

Administrative divisions

The county contains the following 2 towns and 8 townships:

Name	Chinese	Hanyu Pinyin	Tibetan	Wylie
Towns
Arza Town	阿扎镇	Ãzhā zhèn	ཨར་རྩ་གྲོང་རྡལ།	ar rtsa grong rdal
Lhari Town	嘉黎镇	Jiālí zhèn	ལྷ་རི་་གྲོང་རྡལ།	lha ri grong rdal
Townships
Nyiwu Township (Drongyül)	尼屋乡	Níwū xiāng	སྙིའུ་ཤང་།	snyi'u shang
Dzabbel Township (Zabbe)	藏比乡	Zàngbǐ xiāng	རྫབ་འབེལ་ཤང་།	rdzab 'bel shang
Codoi Township	措多乡	Cuòduō xiāng	ཚོ་སྟོད་ཤང་།	tsho stod shang
Xarma Township	夏玛乡	Xiàmǎ xiāng	ཤར་མ་ཤང་།	shar ma shang
Lingti Township	林堤乡	Líndī xiāng	གླིང་མཐིལ་ཤང་།	gling mthil shang
Mitika Township (Midikha, Cora, Tsora)	麦地卡乡	Màidìkǎ xiāng	སྨི་ཏི་ཁ་ཤང་།	smi ti kha shang
Rongdoi Township (Rongtö)	绒多乡	Róngduō xiāng	རོང་སྟོད་ཤང་།	rong stod shang
Goqung Township (Kochung)	鸽群乡	Gēqún xiāng	ཀོ་ཆུང་ཤང་།	ko chung shang

Climate

Climate data for Lhari, elevation 4,489 m (14,728 ft), (1991–2020 normals)
Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Year
Mean daily maximum °C (°F)	−1.1 (30.0)	0.5 (32.9)	3.1 (37.6)	6.8 (44.2)	10.8 (51.4)	14.8 (58.6)	16.1 (61.0)	15.9 (60.6)	13.9 (57.0)	9.1 (48.4)	4.0 (39.2)	1.0 (33.8)	7.9 (46.2)
Daily mean °C (°F)	−10.1 (13.8)	−7.9 (17.8)	−4.2 (24.4)	−0.3 (31.5)	3.8 (38.8)	7.7 (45.9)	9.1 (48.4)	8.6 (47.5)	6.5 (43.7)	1.6 (34.9)	−4.8 (23.4)	−8.6 (16.5)	0.1 (32.2)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F)	−17.9 (−0.2)	−15.4 (4.3)	−10.2 (13.6)	−5.6 (21.9)	−1.2 (29.8)	2.7 (36.9)	4.2 (39.6)	3.8 (38.8)	1.8 (35.2)	−3.5 (25.7)	−11.4 (11.5)	−16.5 (2.3)	−5.8 (21.6)
Average precipitation mm (inches)	7.5 (0.30)	12.6 (0.50)	24.1 (0.95)	38.5 (1.52)	83.0 (3.27)	152.1 (5.99)	153.6 (6.05)	132.6 (5.22)	111.2 (4.38)	37.9 (1.49)	11.3 (0.44)	5.1 (0.20)	769.5 (30.31)
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm)	7.2	8.6	13.2	15.5	19.2	23.1	23.8	22.0	20.5	13.1	5.9	4.1	176.2
Average snowy days	11.6	12.8	18.2	20.4	20.7	6.9	1.2	1.5	6.7	16.8	9.4	8.0	134.2
Average relative humidity (%)	49	49	54	59	64	69	72	73	72	63	53	48	60
Mean monthly sunshine hours	209.1	196.0	218.4	214.7	224.0	190.8	174.1	181.7	187.8	228.5	227.9	219.2	2,472.2
Percent possible sunshine	65	62	58	55	53	45	41	45	51	66	72	70	57
Source: China Meteorological Administration[3][4]

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References

1. "那曲市第七次全国人口普查主要数据公报" (in Chinese). Statistics Bureau of Nagqu. 2021-07-09.
2. Zhong, Zhang (1995-12-29). "Six-Year-Old Becomes The 11th Panchen Lama". China Tibet Information Center. Archived from the original on 2006-07-15. Retrieved 2010-07-12.
3. 中国气象数据网 – WeatherBk Data (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 27 September 2023.
4. 中国气象数据网 (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 27 September 2023.