Barkam
马尔康市 · འབར་ཁམས་གྲོང་ཁྱེར། · Muerkvua shi Ma'erkang | |
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 Overview of the city of Barkam | |
.png.webp) Barkam City (red) in Ngawa Prefecture (yellow) and Sichuan | |
  Barkam Location of the seat in Sichuan  Barkam Barkam (China) | |
| Coordinates (Barkam municipal government): 31°54′21″N 102°12′23″E / 31.9057°N 102.2065°E | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Sichuan |
| Autonomous prefecture | Ngawa |
| Seat | Barkam Town |
| Area | |
| • Total | 6,639 km2 (2,563 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 2,615 m (8,579 ft) |
| Population (2020)[1] | |
| • Total | 58,390 |
| • Density | 8.8/km2 (23/sq mi) |
| Postal code | 624000 |
| Area code | 0837 |
| Website | www |
| Barkam | |||||||
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| Chinese name | |||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 马尔康 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 馬爾康 | ||||||
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| Tibetan name | |||||||
| Tibetan | འབར་ཁམས། | ||||||
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| Qiang name | |||||||
| Qiang | Muerkvua | ||||||
Barkam or Markang or Muerkvua is a county-level city in Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, in the northwest of Sichuan province, China. The city seat is the town of Barkam.
Administrative divisions
Barkam has four towns and 10 townships:[2]
| Name | Simplified Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | Qiang | Administrative division code | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Towns | |||||||
| Barkam Town (Mar'erkang) |
马尔康镇 | Mǎ'ěrkāng Zhèn | འབར་ཁམས་གྲོང་རྡལ། | vbar khams grong rdal | Bbadh kangw seqea | 513201100 | |
| Zonggag Town (Songgang) |
松岗镇 | Sōnggǎng Zhèn | རྫོང་འགག་གྲོང་རྡལ། | rdzong vgag grong rdal | 513201102 | ||
| Sarzong Town (Sha'erzong) |
沙尔宗镇 | Shā'ěrzōng Zhèn | གསར་རྫོང་གྲོང་རྡལ། | gsar rdzong grong rdal | 513201103 | ||
| Townships | |||||||
| Somang Township (Suomo) |
梭磨乡 | Suōmó Xiāng | སོ་མང་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | so mang yul tsho | 513201200 | ||
| Chagpar Township (Baiwan) |
白湾乡 | Báiwān Xiāng | བྲག་བར་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | brag bar yul tsho | 513201201 | ||
| Tamba Township (Dangba) |
党坝乡 | Dǎngbà Xiāng | དམ་པ་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | dam pa yul tsho | 513201202 | ||
| Zhongzong Township (Mu'erzong) |
木尔宗乡 | Dǎngbà Xiāng | འབྲོང་རྫོང་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | vbrong rdzong yul tsho | 513201203 | ||
| Gyomgyo Township (Jiaomuzu, Jomzhu) |
脚木足乡 | Jiǎomùzú Xiāng | ཀྱོམ་ཀྱོ་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | kyom kyo yul tsho | 513201204 | ||
| Donggyai Township (Long'erjia) |
龙尔甲乡 | Lóng'ěrjiǎ Xiāng | གདོང་བརྒྱད་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | gdong brgyad yul tsho | 513201206 | ||
| Tacang Township (Dazang) |
大藏乡 | Dàzàng Xiāng | ད་ཚང་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | da tshang yul tsho | 513201207 | ||
| Kangsar Township (Kangshan) |
康山乡 | Kāngshān Xiāng | ཁང་སར་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | khang sar yul tsho | 513201208 | ||
| Codün Township (Caodeng) |
草登乡 | Cǎodēng Xiāng | ཚོ་བདུན་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | tsho bdun yul tsho | 513201209 | ||
| Zongbur Township (Ribu) |
日部乡 | Rìbù Xiāng | རྫོང་འབུར་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | rdzong vbur yul tsho | 513201210 | ||
Transport
Climate
Due to its elevation, Barkam lies in the transition between a subtropical highland climate (Köppen Cwb) and humid continental climate (Köppen Dwb), with strong monsoonal influences; winters are frosty and summers warm with frequent rain. The monthly 24-hour average temperature ranges from −0.5 °C (31.1 °F) in December and January to 16.4 °C (61.5 °F) in July, while the annual mean is 8.75 °C (47.7 °F). Nearly two-thirds of the annual precipitation of 784 mm (30.9 in) occurs from June to September. With monthly percent possible sunshine ranging from 36% in June to 65% in December, the town receives 2,133 hours of bright sunshine annually. Diurnal temperature variation is large, averaging 16.0 °C (28.8 °F) annually.
| Climate data for Barkam (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1971–2010) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 22.1 (71.8) |
24.8 (76.6) |
26.8 (80.2) |
31.3 (88.3) |
34.7 (94.5) |
35.7 (96.3) |
35.5 (95.9) |
36.3 (97.3) |
32.4 (90.3) |
30.6 (87.1) |
23.3 (73.9) |
19.3 (66.7) |
36.3 (97.3) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 11.1 (52.0) |
14.4 (57.9) |
17.0 (62.6) |
19.9 (67.8) |
22.5 (72.5) |
23.9 (75.0) |
25.6 (78.1) |
25.8 (78.4) |
23.1 (73.6) |
18.8 (65.8) |
15.3 (59.5) |
11.0 (51.8) |
19.0 (66.2) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −0.2 (31.6) |
3.4 (38.1) |
6.8 (44.2) |
10.1 (50.2) |
12.9 (55.2) |
15.1 (59.2) |
16.6 (61.9) |
16.3 (61.3) |
13.7 (56.7) |
9.2 (48.6) |
4.1 (39.4) |
−0.2 (31.6) |
9.0 (48.2) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −7.3 (18.9) |
−4.0 (24.8) |
−0.3 (31.5) |
3.2 (37.8) |
6.6 (43.9) |
10.0 (50.0) |
11.3 (52.3) |
10.9 (51.6) |
8.8 (47.8) |
4.1 (39.4) |
−2.3 (27.9) |
−6.8 (19.8) |
2.9 (37.1) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −16.0 (3.2) |
−13.6 (7.5) |
−12.6 (9.3) |
−6.2 (20.8) |
−2.2 (28.0) |
0.1 (32.2) |
2.2 (36.0) |
1.5 (34.7) |
−0.6 (30.9) |
−5.7 (21.7) |
−10.7 (12.7) |
−16.6 (2.1) |
−16.6 (2.1) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 3.3 (0.13) |
7.8 (0.31) |
27.4 (1.08) |
57.4 (2.26) |
115.6 (4.55) |
164.4 (6.47) |
130.0 (5.12) |
105.2 (4.14) |
122.2 (4.81) |
78.1 (3.07) |
11.5 (0.45) |
3.1 (0.12) |
826 (32.51) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 2.5 | 5.6 | 10.5 | 14.9 | 20.5 | 22.7 | 19.6 | 17.7 | 18.9 | 16.3 | 5.4 | 2.2 | 156.8 |
| Average snowy days | 4.1 | 6.8 | 6.4 | 1.9 | 0.6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.9 | 2.9 | 3.3 | 26.9 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 45 | 44 | 50 | 56 | 65 | 74 | 75 | 74 | 77 | 74 | 59 | 50 | 62 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 196.8 | 175.6 | 184.1 | 185.1 | 181.6 | 147.5 | 167.8 | 173.6 | 155.9 | 156.0 | 186.7 | 200.7 | 2,111.4 |
| Percent possible sunshine | 61 | 56 | 49 | 47 | 42 | 35 | 39 | 43 | 43 | 45 | 60 | 64 | 49 |
| Source 1: China Meteorological Administration[3][4] | |||||||||||||
| Source 2: Weather China[5] | |||||||||||||
Demographics
The city had a population of 54,735 in 1999.[6] The area is traditionally inhabited by a branch of Rgyalrong people who speak the Situ language.[7]
Notes
- ↑ "阿坝州第七次全国人口普查公报第二号——县（市）人口情况" (in Chinese). Government of Ngawa Prefecture. 2021-06-11.
- ↑ (in Chinese) National Bureau of Statistics - Barkam City.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 马尔康 - 气象数据 -中国天气网 (in Chinese). Weather China. Retrieved 27 November 2022.
- ↑ National Population Statistics Materials by County and City - 1999 Period, in China County & City Population 1999, Harvard China Historical GIS
- ↑ "Rgyalrong Culture" 嘉绒人文. Ma'erkang City Government website. Archived from the original on 2019-03-28. Retrieved 2019-09-19.
External links
- (in Chinese) Maerkang County Government site Archived 2019-12-25 at the Wayback Machine - Google translation
- (in Chinese) Maerkang - bashu.net - Google translation
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