Tulihe () is a town under the administration of
Yakeshi
Yakeshi (; zh, c=牙克石) is a county-level city of Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia, China.
Yakeshi has a population of 391,627 and an area of . It is situated next to the Hailar River east of Hailar District, the seat of Hulunbuir, and on the nor ...
City in far northeastern
Inner Mongolia
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,
China
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, located northeast of Yakeshi and south-southeast of
Genhe. , it has two residential communities () under its administration.
Climate
Tulihe has a
monsoon
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-influenced
subarctic climate
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''Dwc''), with an average annual temperature of , colder than even
Mohe County
Mohe () is a county-level city in Daxing'anling Prefecture, Heilongjiang province. It is the northernmost city in China. As of the 2020 Chinese Census, it has a population of 54,036.
Administrative divisions
Mohe City is divided into 6 towns ...
in
Heilongjiang
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, about to the north-northeast. Lows average below freezing for nine calendar months and the 24-hour average temperature is below freezing for seven calendar months. Its location in a valley of the
Greater Khingan
The Greater Khingan Range or Da Hinggan Range ( zh, s=大兴安岭, t=大興安嶺, p=Dà Xīng'ān Lǐng; IPA: ) is a volcanic mountain range in the Inner Mongolia region of Northeast China.
It was originally called the Xianbei Mountains, whi ...
Range at an elevation of , promoting
temperature inversion
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s, helps the temperature plummet at night, with an average
diurnal temperature variation
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Temperature lag
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in excess of in every month except July and August. Winters are long, severely cold, and very dry in terms of total precipitation, while summers are short and warm. The monthly 24-hour average temperature ranges from in January to in July. A majority of the annual precipitation occurs in July and August alone. With monthly percent possible sunshine ranging from 45% in July to 73% in February, the town receives 2,548.1 hours of bright sunshine annually.
See also
*
List of township-level divisions of Inner Mongolia
References
Township-level divisions of Inner Mongolia
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