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Nagqu

Author: Leandro Alegsa

07-09-2021

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).

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