Mainling
Mainling (Tibetan: སྨན་གླིང་རྫོང་།, Wylie: sman gling rdzong, ZYPY: Mainling Zong; Chinese: 米林市; pinyin: Mǐlín Shì), formerly Mainling County, is a county-level city under the jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city of Nyingchi in eastern Tibet Autonomous Region.
Mainling
米林市 • སྨན་གླིང་རྫོང་། | |
|---|---|
.png.webp) Location of Mainling (red) within Nyingchi City (yellow) and Tibet Autonomous Region | |
  Mainling Location of the seat in the Tibet Autonomous Region | |
| Coordinates: 29°36′00.00″N 94°12′07.20″E | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Autonomous region | Tibet |
| Prefecture-level city | Nyingchi |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
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 covers an area of 9,471 square kilometres. The average altitude is 3,700 metres above sea level.
Climate
| Climate data for Mainling (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) |
| Average high °C (°F) | 8.2 (46.8) |
8.9 (48.0) |
12.1 (53.8) |
15.4 (59.7) |
18.4 (65.1) |
20.9 (69.6) |
22.1 (71.8) |
22.0 (71.6) |
20.1 (68.2) |
16.6 (61.9) |
13.1 (55.6) |
9.7 (49.5) |
15.6 (60.1) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 0.2 (32.4) |
2.1 (35.8) |
5.3 (41.5) |
8.2 (46.8) |
11.5 (52.7) |
14.8 (58.6) |
16.0 (60.8) |
15.7 (60.3) |
13.8 (56.8) |
9.8 (49.6) |
4.8 (40.6) |
1.0 (33.8) |
8.6 (47.5) |
| Average low °C (°F) | −5.5 (22.1) |
−2.6 (27.3) |
0.7 (33.3) |
3.5 (38.3) |
6.7 (44.1) |
10.7 (51.3) |
12.0 (53.6) |
11.6 (52.9) |
10.0 (50.0) |
5.4 (41.7) |
−1.0 (30.2) |
−5.2 (22.6) |
3.9 (38.9) |
| 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) | 3.3 (0.13) |
12.3 (0.48) |
28.2 (1.11) |
55.7 (2.19) |
81.2 (3.20) |
117.4 (4.62) |
148.4 (5.84) |
113.0 (4.45) |
88.9 (3.50) |
44.8 (1.76) |
5.8 (0.23) |
3.2 (0.13) |
702.2 (27.64) |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 61 | 65 | 68 | 71 | 73 | 77 | 79 | 78 | 78 | 72 | 65 | 62 | 71 |
| Source: China Meteorological Data Service Center[1] | |||||||||||||
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.
Demography
In 1999 the city had a population of 17347 inhabitants.[2]
The city is home to the Lhoba people.
Villages
References
- 中国地面气候标准值月值(1981-2010) (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Data Service Center. Retrieved 29 November 2022.
- National Population Statistics Materials by County and City - 1999 Period, in China County & City Population 1999, Harvard China Historical GIS
