Mainling
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Mainling
米林市 • སྨན་གླིང་གྲོང་ཁྱེར། | |
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 Western slope of Namcha Barwa, captured from Naibai Observation Deck, Mainling City | |
  Mainling Location of the seat in the Tibet Autonomous Region  Mainling Mainling (China) | |
| Coordinates: 29°36′00.00″N 94°12′07.20″E / 29.6000000°N 94.2020000°E | |
| Country | China |
| Autonomous region | Tibet |
| Prefecture-level city | Nyingchi |
| Municipal seat | Mainling |
| Area | |
• Total | 9,490 km2 (3,660 sq mi) |
| Population (2020)[1] | |
• Total | 26,176 |
| • Density | 2.76/km2 (7.14/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Website | www |
| Mainling | |||||||
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| Chinese | 米林市 | ||||||
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| Tibetan name | |||||||
| Tibetan | སྨན་གླིང་གྲོང་ཁྱེར། | ||||||
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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.
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
| Climate data for Mainling, elevation 2,950 m (9,680 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) | 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 |
| Percentage possible sunshine | 49 | 40 | 36 | 34 | 31 | 25 | 27 | 31 | 31 | 40 | 53 | 56 | 38 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration[2][3] | |||||||||||||
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.
| Name | Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | |||
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| 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 | |||
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| 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 | |||
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| 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. | |||||||
Villages
References
- ^ "林芝市第七次全国人口普查主要数据公报" (in Chinese). Government of Nyingchi. 2021-06-17.
- ^ 中国气象数据网 – WeatherBk Data (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 27 August 2023.
- ^ "Experience Template" 中国气象数据网 (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 27 August 2023.
- ^ 中国交通运输发展（1978～2018）. 改革开放研究丛书 (in Chinese). Social Sciences Academic Press. 2018. p. 2016-IA4. ISBN 978-7-5201-2864-3. Retrieved 2025-02-20.
- ^ National Population Statistics Materials by County and City - 1999 Period, in China County & City Population 1999, Harvard China Historical GIS
- ^ 珞巴妇女性别角色与社会地位变迁：以米林县南伊珞巴民族乡为例. 西藏历史与现状综合研究项目 (in Chinese). Social Sciences Academic Press. 2015. p. 35. ISBN 978-7-5097-7063-4. Retrieved 2025-02-20.
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