Nagqu

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This article is about the county borough. For the former county, see Seni (municipality); for the municipality (纳久乡) in Zhongba County, see Nagqu (Zhongba).

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Nagqu (also Nagchu, Tibetan: ནག་ཆུ, transliteration according to Wylie: nag chu; meaning: "black river") is a county-level city (until 2017 government county) of the Tibet Autonomous Region in the People's Republic of China. It has an area of 450,537 km² and a population of about 363,000 (2001).

Qingzang railway line through NagchuZoom
Qingzang railway line through Nagchu

Location of Nagchu (yellow) in Tibet (light grey)Zoom
Location of Nagchu (yellow) in Tibet (light grey)

Administrative outline

Name

Tibetan

Wylie

Chinese

Pinyin

Municipality of Seni (formerly Nagqu)

ནག་ཆུ་རྫོང་

nag chu rdzong

色尼区

Nàqū Xiàn

Lhari County

ལྷ་རི་རྫོང་

lha ri rdzong

嘉黎县

Jiālí Xiàn

Biru County

འབྲི་རུ་རྫོང་

'bri ru rdzong

比如县

Bǐrú Xiàn

Nyainrong County

གཉན་རོང་རྫོང་

gnyan rong rdzong

聂荣县

Nièróng Xiàn

Amdo County

ཨ་མདོ་རྫོང་

a mdo rdzong

安多县

Ānduō Xiàn

Xainza County

ཤན་རྩ་རྫོང་

shan rtsa rdzong

申扎县

Shēnzhā Xiàn

Circle suction

སོག་རྫོང་

sog rdzong

索县

Suǒ Xiàn

Baingoin County

དཔལ་མགོན་རྫོང་

dpal mgon rdzong

班戈县

Bāngē Xiàn

Baqên County

སྦྲ་ཆེན་རྫོང་

sbra chen rdzong

巴青县

Bāqīng Xiàn

Nyima County

ཉི་མ་རྫོང་

nyi ma rdzong

尼玛县

Nímǎ Xiàn

Shuanghu Special District

མཚོ་གཉིས་དོན་གཅོད་ཁྲུའུ་

mtsho gnyis don gcod khru'u

双湖特别区

Shuānghú Tèbié Qū



Climate

The climate in Nagqu is bitterly cold, especially in winter, with temperatures not rising above freezing even during the day. At night, they can occasionally fall below -35 °C. The lowest temperature ever measured in Nagqu is -41.2 °C.

Nagqu

Climate diagram

J

F

M

A

M

J

J

A

S

O

N

D

 

 

3

 

-3

-22

 

 

3

 

-1

-19

 

 

3

 

3

-14

 

 

12

 

7

-9

 

 

25

 

11

-4

 

 

82

 

15

1

 

 

106

 

16

3

 

 

95

 

15

3

 

 

76

 

13

0

 

 

20

 

8

-6

 

 

4

 

2

-15

 

 

3

 

-2

-20

Temperature in °C, precipitation in mm

Source : www.meteo365.de

 

Monthly average temperatures and precipitation for Nagqu

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

May

Jun

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

Nov

Dec

Max. Temperature (°C)

−2,6

−1,1

2,9

6,6

10,8

14,8

15,5

14,9

12,5

7,5

1,7

−1,9

Ø

6,8

Min. temperature (°C)

−21,5

−18,5

−14,2

−8,8

−3,6

1,1

3,2

2,9

0,1

−6,0

−14,9

−20,4

Ø

−8,3

Temperature (°C)

−12,7

−9,8

−5,5

−1,4

3,4

8,1

9,3

8,8

6,1

0,2

−7,2

−10,9

Ø

−0,9

Precipitation (mm)

3

3

3

12

25

82

106

95

76

20

4

3

432


Temperature

−2,6

−21,5

−1,1

−18,5

2,9

−14,2

6,6

−8,8

10,8

−3,6

14,8

1,1

15,5

3,2

14,9

2,9

12,5

0,1

7,5

−6,0

1,7

−14,9

−1,9

−20,4

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

May

Jun

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

Nov

Dec

 


Precipitation

3

3

3

12

25

82

106

95

76

20

4

3

 

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

May

Jun

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

Nov

Dec

Source : www.meteo365.de


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