Ulan County
Ulan or Wulan (Mongolian: ᠤᠯᠠᠭᠠᠨ ᠰᠢᠶᠠᠨ ; Tibetan: དབུས་ལམ་རྫོང་།; Chinese: 乌兰县) is a county of Qinghai Province, China. It is under the administration of Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. County seat is Xireg.
Ulan County
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 Chaka Salt Lake, Ulan County | |
.png.webp) Location of Ulan County (red) within Haixi Prefecture (yellow) and Sichuan | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Province | Qinghai |
| Autonomous prefecture | Haixi |
| Seat | Xireg |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
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| Traditional Chinese | 烏蘭縣 | ||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 乌兰县 | ||||||
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| Tibetan name | |||||||
| Tibetan | དབུས་ལམ་རྫོང་། | ||||||
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| Mongolian name | |||||||
| Mongolian script | ᠤᠯᠠᠭᠠᠨ ᠰᠢᠶᠠᠨ | ||||||
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The name of the county comes from a Mongolian word which means "red".
Climate
| Climate data for Ulan (1981−2010) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Average high °C (°F) | −2.0 (28.4) |
2.0 (35.6) |
7.2 (45.0) |
12.9 (55.2) |
17.4 (63.3) |
20.3 (68.5) |
22.7 (72.9) |
22.5 (72.5) |
18.3 (64.9) |
11.9 (53.4) |
4.7 (40.5) |
−0.7 (30.7) |
11.4 (52.6) |
| Average low °C (°F) | −17.4 (0.7) |
−13.1 (8.4) |
−7.0 (19.4) |
−1.5 (29.3) |
3.6 (38.5) |
7.5 (45.5) |
9.7 (49.5) |
8.9 (48.0) |
5.0 (41.0) |
−2.2 (28.0) |
−10.2 (13.6) |
−15.8 (3.6) |
−2.7 (27.1) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 1.7 (0.07) |
1.8 (0.07) |
3.7 (0.15) |
8.4 (0.33) |
25.7 (1.01) |
40.7 (1.60) |
49.8 (1.96) |
29.9 (1.18) |
23.2 (0.91) |
4.9 (0.19) |
1.0 (0.04) |
1.0 (0.04) |
191.8 (7.55) |
| Source: National Meteorological Center of CMA[1] | |||||||||||||
Transportation
The county is served by the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, which has a station at the county seat. There is also a freight-only branch to the salt works on the Chaka Salt Lake (茶卡盐湖) near Chaka Town (茶卡镇), in the southeastern part of the county.
References
- 1981年-2010年（乌兰）月平均气温和降水 (in Simplified Chinese). National Meteorological Center of CMA. Retrieved 25 November 2022.
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