Sêrxü County
Sêrxü County (Tibetan: སེར་ཤུལ་རྫོང་།; Chinese: 石渠县), also known as Sershul, Dzachuka, Serxu, or Shiqu is a county of the Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in the northwest of Sichuan Province, China, bordering Qinghai to the west and the Tibet Autonomous Region to the southwest.
Sêrxü County 石渠县 · སེར་ཤུལ་རྫོང་། Sershul, Dzachuka, Serxu, Shiqu | |
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"Muri Mani" stone sutra | |
Location of Sêrxü County (red) within Garzê Prefecture (yellow) and Sichuan | |
Sêrxü Location of the seat in Sichuan Sêrxü Sêrxü (China) | |
| Coordinates: 32°58′44″N 98°06′10″E / 32.9790°N 98.1029°E | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Sichuan |
| Autonomous prefecture | Garzê |
| County seat | Jugar (Niga) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 24,944 km2 (9,631 sq mi) |
| Population (2020)[1] | |
| • Total | 103,633 |
| • Density | 4.2/km2 (11/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Website | www |
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| Chinese name | |||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 石渠县 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 石渠縣 | ||||||
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| Tibetan | སེར་ཤུལ་རྫོང་། | ||||||
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Geography edit
Sêrxü (sershul) County is situated at the northwest corner of Sichuan province, and is also the westernmost county-level division of the province. Its area is approximately 25,000 km2, mainly covered by grasslands. The average elevation is 4,200 m above sea level.
The area is predominantly covered by grasslands used for nomadic herding. The population is around 68,000, 96% of whom are ethnic Tibetan.
By the end of 1997, there was an estimated livestock population of 581,470. These were mainly yaks, sheep, goats, and horses, but there was a small number of pigs. The human population of Shiqu County was approximately 63,400, 96.8% of which were ethnic Tibetans. There were 49,100 herdsmen, representing 77.6% of the population.
Sershul District villages include: Ariksar, Bumser, Changma, Dezhongma, Dzagyel, Geming, Gotsa, Junyung, Jowo, Kabshi, Kilung, Kyewu, Sershul Gompa, Serxu Dzong, Shaksa, Tromsa Genma, Tseboum Soumdo, Tsemkhog, Ombo and Wathul.
Sershul District has several monasteries, including: Ju Mohar, Sershul Monastery, Bumser Gonpo, Ariksar, Dzagyel, Changma, Trikar, Kabshi and Jowo; and the Gsumge Mani Stone Castle, a religious complex built out of mani stone tablets.
Administrative divisions edit
Sêrxü County is divided into 7 towns and 14 townships:
| Name | Simplified Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | Administrative division code | |
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| Towns | ||||||
| Jugar Town (Niga) | 尼呷镇 | Nígā Zhèn | འཇུ་སྒར་གྲོང་རྡལ། | 'ju sgar grong rdal | 513332100 | |
| Loqug Town (Loqung) | 洛须镇 | Luòxū Zhèn | ལོ་ཕྱུག་གྲོང་རྡལ། | lo phyug grong rdal | 513332101 | |
| Sêrxü Town (Sênxü, Sexu) | 色须镇 | Sèxū Zhèn | སེར་ཤུལ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | ser shul grong rdal | 513332102 | |
| Qagca Town (Xiazha) | 虾扎镇 | Xiāzhā Zhèn | ཕྱག་ཚ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | phyag tsha grong rdal | 513332103 | |
| Woinbo Town (Wenbo) | 温波镇 | Wēnbō Zhèn | དབོན་པོ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | dbon po grong rdal | 513332104 | |
| Bumnying Town (Mengyi) | 蒙宜镇 | Méngyí Zhèn | འབུམ་རྙིང་གྲོང་རྡལ། | 'bum rnying grong rdal | 513332105 | |
| Arigza Town (Arizha) | 阿日扎镇 | Ārìzhā Zhèn | ཨ་རིག་རྫ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | a rig rdza grong rdal | 513332106 | |
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| Zênda Township (Zhenda) | 真达乡 | Zhēndá Xiāng | རྩེ་མདའ་ཤང་། | rtse mda' shang | 513332200 | |
| Pênda Township (Benda) | 奔达乡 | Bēndá Xiāng | བེ་མདའ་ཤང་། | be mda' shang | 513332201 | |
| Zhêngko Township (Zhengke) | 正科乡 | Zhèngkē Xiāng | ཀྲེང་ཁོ་ཤང་། | kreng kho shang | 513332202 | |
| Dêxungma Township (De'ongma, Derongma) | 德荣马乡 | Déróngmǎ Xiāng | སྡེ་གཞུང་མ་ཤང་། | sde gzhung ma shang | 513332204 | |
| Chomsagabma Township (Changshagongma) | 长沙贡马乡 | Chángshāgóngmǎ Xiāng | ཁྲོམ་བཟའ་འགབ་མ་ཤང་། | khrom bza' 'gab ma shang | 513332206 | |
| Gaxi Township (Gayi) | 呷衣乡 | Gāyī Xiāng | ཀ་བཞི་ཤང་། | ka bzhi shang | 513332207 | |
| Gêmang Township (Gemeng) | 格孟乡 | Gémèng Xiāng | དགེ་མང་ཤང་། | dge mang shang | 513332208 | |
| Xinrung Township (Xinrong) | 新荣乡 | Xīnróng Xiāng | ཤིན་རུང་ཤང་། | shin rung shang | 513332210 | |
| Ju'nying Township (Yiniu) | 宜牛乡 | Yíniú Xiāng | འཇུ་རྙིང་ཤང་། | 'ju rnying shang | 513332211 | |
| Kyiu Township (Kyewu, Qiwu) | 起坞乡 | Qǐwū Xiāng | ཁྱེའུ་ཤང་། | khye'u shang | 513332213 | |
| Choxükongma Township (Changxugongma) | 长须贡马乡 | Chángxūgòngmǎ Xiāng | ཁྲོ་ཤུལ་གོང་མ་ཤང་། | khro shul gong ma shang | 513332215 | |
| Chomzagabma Township (Chomsakongma, Changshaganma) | 长沙干马乡 | Chángshāgānmǎ Xiāng | ཁྲོམ་རྫ་འགབ་མ་ཤང་། | khrom rdza 'gab ma shang | 513332216 | |
| Choxügabma Township (Changxuganma) | 长须干马乡 | Chángxūgānmǎ Xiāng | ཁྲོ་ཤུལ་འགབ་མ་ཤང་། | khro shul 'gab ma shang | 513332217 | |
| Waxü Township (Waxu) | 瓦须乡 | Wǎxū Xiāng | ཝ་ཤུལ་ཤང་། | wa shul shang | 513332219 | |
Demographics edit
The population of the district was 62,408 inhabitants in 1999.[2]
There are about 52,660 nomads in the district, or 77.6% of the population.
Climate edit
| Climate data for Sêrxü, elevation 4,200 m (13,800 ft), (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–2010) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 12.1 (53.8) | 10.2 (50.4) | 14.8 (58.6) | 17.5 (63.5) | 20.7 (69.3) | 23.1 (73.6) | 23.5 (74.3) | 22.6 (72.7) | 21.7 (71.1) | 19.1 (66.4) | 12.5 (54.5) | 10.0 (50.0) | 23.5 (74.3) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | −2.4 (27.7) | 0.0 (32.0) | 3.3 (37.9) | 7.2 (45.0) | 11.0 (51.8) | 14.0 (57.2) | 16.0 (60.8) | 15.9 (60.6) | 13.3 (55.9) | 7.4 (45.3) | 2.4 (36.3) | −1.0 (30.2) | 7.3 (45.1) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −11.5 (11.3) | −8.3 (17.1) | −4.3 (24.3) | 0.0 (32.0) | 3.9 (39.0) | 7.4 (45.3) | 9.3 (48.7) | 8.7 (47.7) | 5.9 (42.6) | 0.0 (32.0) | −6.2 (20.8) | −10.5 (13.1) | −0.5 (31.2) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −19.4 (−2.9) | −15.7 (3.7) | −10.8 (12.6) | −5.8 (21.6) | −1.8 (28.8) | 2.4 (36.3) | 3.8 (38.8) | 2.8 (37.0) | 0.6 (33.1) | −5.2 (22.6) | −13 (9) | −18.5 (−1.3) | −6.7 (19.9) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −37.2 (−35.0) | −31.8 (−25.2) | −27.5 (−17.5) | −15.9 (3.4) | −11.2 (11.8) | −6.0 (21.2) | −4.1 (24.6) | −7.9 (17.8) | −10.0 (14.0) | −20.3 (−4.5) | −30.3 (−22.5) | −37.8 (−36.0) | −37.8 (−36.0) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 7.5 (0.30) | 10.0 (0.39) | 16.7 (0.66) | 28.8 (1.13) | 62.0 (2.44) | 108.6 (4.28) | 118.3 (4.66) | 92.1 (3.63) | 92.6 (3.65) | 46.4 (1.83) | 6.9 (0.27) | 4.0 (0.16) | 593.9 (23.4) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 6.7 | 7.9 | 12.5 | 15.4 | 20.3 | 23.8 | 20.8 | 18.5 | 20.8 | 16.0 | 6.5 | 4.8 | 174 |
| Average snowy days | 8.9 | 11.5 | 15.9 | 19.5 | 19.4 | 5.8 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 7.8 | 18.3 | 9.2 | 7.2 | 125.8 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 45 | 45 | 48 | 55 | 62 | 68 | 68 | 69 | 71 | 67 | 53 | 46 | 58 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 205.0 | 188.2 | 203.9 | 207.1 | 199.9 | 170.6 | 191.6 | 190.2 | 177.1 | 188.4 | 210.2 | 211.4 | 2,343.6 |
| Percent possible sunshine | 64 | 60 | 55 | 53 | 46 | 40 | 44 | 47 | 48 | 54 | 68 | 68 | 54 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration[3][4] | |||||||||||||
References edit
- ^ "甘孜州第七次全国人口普查公报（第二号）" (in Chinese). Government of Garzê Prefecture. 2021-06-04.
- ^ (in English) National Population Statistics Materials by County and City - 1999 Period, in China County & City Population 1999, Harvard China Historical GIS
- ^ 中国气象数据网 – WeatherBk Data (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 13 April 2023.
- ^ 中国气象数据网 (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 13 April 2023.
External links edit
- maps of Sershul County
- Development Projects in Sershul
- (in Chinese) - Google translation
- County Police Bureau
- County News
- photos of Sershul
- County Justice Bureau
- County Buddhism Academy
- County Water Resources Bureau