Madoi County (; zh, s=玛多县; also Matö County or Maduo County) is a county of
Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
Golog (Golok or Guoluo) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture ( zh, c=果洛藏族自治州 , p=Guǒluò Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu; ) is an autonomous prefecture occupying the southeastern corner of Qinghai province, China. The prefecture has an area of and ...
, in southeast-central
Qinghai
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province, bordering
Sichuan
Sichuan is a province in Southwestern China, occupying the Sichuan Basin and Tibetan Plateau—between the Jinsha River to the west, the Daba Mountains to the north, and the Yunnan–Guizhou Plateau to the south. Its capital city is Cheng ...
to the south. Its area is about , and with an . In Madoi County is the upper stream of the
Yellow River
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which flows to
Ngoring and
Gyaring lake.
Geography and Climate
With an elevation of around , Madoi County has an
alpine climate
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Definition
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''EH''), with long, bitterly cold and very dry winters, and brief, rainy, cool summers. Average low temperatures are below freezing from early September to mid June; however, due to the wide
diurnal temperature variation
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Temperature lag
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, average highs are only below freezing from early November thru mid March. Despite frequent rain during summer, when a majority of days sees rain, no month has less than 50% of possible sunshine; with monthly percent possible sunshine ranging from 53% in June to 79% in November, the county seat receives 2,838 hours of bright sunshine annually. The monthly 24-hour average temperature ranges from in January to in July, while the annual mean is , making the county seat one of the coldest locales nationwide in terms of annual mean temperature. Nearly three-fourths of the annual precipitation of is delivered from June to September.
On January 2, 1978, the lowest temperature ever recorded in Qinghai was at Madoi.
Administrative divisions
Madoi is divided into two towns and two townships:
See also
*
List of administrative divisions of Qinghai
Qinghai, a province of the People's Republic of China, is made up of the following administrative divisions.
Administrative divisions
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References
County-level divisions of Qinghai
Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
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