Mainling

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Mainling (Tibetan: སྨན་གླིང་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།; Chinese: 米林市; pinyin: Mǐlín; ), formerly Mainling County, is a county-level city under the jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city of Nyingchi in eastern Tibet Autonomous Region, China.

Quick Facts 米林市 • སྨན་གླིང་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།, Country ...
Mainling
米林市སྨན་གླིང་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།
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Western slope of Namcha Barwa, captured from Naibai Observation Deck, Mainling City
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Location of the seat in the Tibet Autonomous Region
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Mainling
Mainling (China)
Coordinates: 29°36′00.00″N 94°12′07.20″E
CountryChina
Autonomous regionTibet
Prefecture-level cityNyingchi
Municipal seatMainling
Area
  Total
9,490 km2 (3,660 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)[1]
  Total
26,176
  Density2.8/km2 (7.1/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Websitewww.milin.gov.cn
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Quick Facts Chinese name, Chinese ...
Mainling
Chinese name
Chinese米林市
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinMǐlín Shì
Tibetan name
Tibetanསྨན་གླིང་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།
Transcriptions
Wyliesman gling grong khyer
Tibetan PinyinMainling Chongkyêr
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Geography

Mainling is located in the central-west of the Nyingtri Prefecture, at the middle reaches of the Yarlung Tsangpo River, and between the Nyenchen Tanglha Mountains and the Himalayan Mountains. It de jure covers an area of 9,490 square kilometres, including the area claimed but de facto under control of the Arunachal Pradesh, India. The average altitude is 3,700 metres above sea level.

Climate

More information Climate data for Mainling, elevation 2,950 m (9,680 ft), (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–2010), Month ...
Climate data for Mainling, elevation 2,950 m (9,680 ft), (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–2010)
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Record high °C (°F) 19.1
(66.4)
19.4
(66.9)
22.3
(72.1)
24.1
(75.4)
25.8
(78.4)
27.9
(82.2)
29.7
(85.5)
27.8
(82.0)
27.9
(82.2)
24.6
(76.3)
19.1
(66.4)
16.7
(62.1)
29.7
(85.5)
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) 8.1
(46.6)
9.5
(49.1)
12.3
(54.1)
15.6
(60.1)
18.4
(65.1)
21.0
(69.8)
22.3
(72.1)
22.3
(72.1)
20.5
(68.9)
16.7
(62.1)
13.4
(56.1)
9.9
(49.8)
15.8
(60.5)
Daily mean °C (°F) 0.5
(32.9)
2.6
(36.7)
5.6
(42.1)
8.6
(47.5)
11.7
(53.1)
15.1
(59.2)
16.3
(61.3)
16.1
(61.0)
14.3
(57.7)
10.1
(50.2)
5.3
(41.5)
1.6
(34.9)
9.0
(48.2)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) −4.9
(23.2)
−2.1
(28.2)
1.1
(34.0)
4.0
(39.2)
7.3
(45.1)
11.2
(52.2)
12.5
(54.5)
12.1
(53.8)
10.5
(50.9)
5.9
(42.6)
−0.3
(31.5)
−4.2
(24.4)
4.4
(40.0)
Record low °C (°F) −15.8
(3.6)
−12.1
(10.2)
−9.4
(15.1)
−6.0
(21.2)
−2.4
(27.7)
2.1
(35.8)
6.1
(43.0)
4.4
(39.9)
0.5
(32.9)
−6.9
(19.6)
−10.0
(14.0)
−14.5
(5.9)
−15.8
(3.6)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 4.8
(0.19)
10.9
(0.43)
31.4
(1.24)
57.0
(2.24)
85.7
(3.37)
121.0
(4.76)
143.4
(5.65)
116.4
(4.58)
84.5
(3.33)
39.1
(1.54)
4.6
(0.18)
2.6
(0.10)
701.4
(27.61)
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) 4.8 8.3 14.8 19.4 21.3 23.3 24.1 22.3 19.8 14.8 4.1 2.4 179.4
Average snowy days 11.0 13.4 7.9 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0.1 1.9 6.6 41.9
Average relative humidity (%) 60 63 66 69 71 75 77 75 76 70 62 60 69
Mean monthly sunshine hours 159.4 126.8 134.8 133.5 130.5 104.4 114.3 124.9 113.3 138.9 168.3 178.8 1,627.9
Percent possible sunshine 49 40 36 34 31 25 27 31 31 40 53 56 38
Source: China Meteorological Administration[2][3]
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Economy

The mine resources of the city are gold dust, plaster, limestone, chromium and iron, etc.

The main economy style in Mainling is farming and forest industry. The main species of the trees are fir, spruce, pine, oak, and cypress, etc. The total cumulation volume of woods is 40 million cubic metres. The special fruit productions are apples, apple pears, walnuts and peaches.

Nyingchi Mainling Airport is located in Mainling.[4]

Demography

In 1999 the city had a population of 17347 inhabitants.[5]

The city is home to the Lhoba people.[6]

Administrative divisions

Mainling contains 3 towns, 4 townships, and 1 ethnic township.

More information Name, Chinese ...
Name Chinese Hanyu Pinyin Tibetan Wylie
Towns
Mainling Town 米林镇 Mǐlín zhèn སྨན་གླིང་གྲོང་རྡལ། sman gling grong rdal
Pé Town 派镇 Pài zhèn ཕད་གྲོང་རྡལ། phad grong rdal
Orong Town 卧龙镇 Wòlóng zhèn ཨོ་རོང་གྲོང་རྡལ། o rong grong rdal
Townships
Tamnyen Township 丹娘乡 Dānniáng xiāng གཏམ་སྙན་ཤང་། gtan snyan shang
Tashi Rabten Township 扎西绕登乡 Zhāxīràodēng xiāng བཀྲིས་རབ་བརྟན་ཤང་། bkra shis rab brtan shang
Nelung Township 里龙乡 Lǐlóng xiāng གནས་ལུང་ཤང་། gnas lung shang
Chanak Township 羌纳乡 Qiāngnà xiāng ཆ་ནག་ཤང་། chu nag shang
Ethnic township
Naiyü Lhoba Ethnic Township 南伊珞巴族乡 Nányī Luòbāzú xiāng གནས་ཡུལ་ལྷོ་པ་མི་རིགས་ཤང་། gnas yul lho pa mi rigs shang

* includes areas claimed but currently under control of the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh.

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Villages

References

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