Tulihe () is a town under the administration of
Yakeshi
Yakeshi ( mn, ''Yagshi qot'', Mongolian Cyrillic: Ягши хот; ) is a county-level city of Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia, People's Republic of China.
Yakeshi has a population of 391,627 and an area of . It is situated next to the Hailar River ...
City in far northeastern
Inner Mongolia
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,
China, located northeast of Yakeshi and south-southeast of
Genhe
Genhe (Gegengol) ( mn, (Гэгээнгол хот) Gegen Gôûl Hôt; ), formerly Ergun Left Banner or Ergun Zuoqi (), is a county-level city in the far northeast of Inner Mongolia, China, under the administration of Hulunbuir City. The city sp ...
. , 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 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 (; IPA: ), is a -long volcanic mountain range in the Inner Mongolia region of Northeast China.
It was originally called the Xianbei Mountains, which later became the name of the northern branch of th ...
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 71% in February and March, the town receives 2,497 hours of bright sunshine annually.
See also
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List of township-level divisions of Inner Mongolia
References
Township-level divisions of Inner Mongolia
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