Madoi County (; ; also Matö County or Maduo County) is a county of
Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, in southeast-central
Qinghai
Qinghai (; alternately romanized as Tsinghai, Ch'inghai), also known as Kokonor, is a landlocked province in the northwest of the People's Republic of China. It is the fourth largest province of China by area and has the third smallest po ...
province, bordering
Sichuan
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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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''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.
Administrative divisions
Madoi is divided into two towns and two townships:
*
Huashixia Town ()
*
Mazhali Town ()
*
Heihe
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Township ()
*
Huanghe Township (黄河乡)
*
Zhalinghu Township ()
See also
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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
All of these administrative divisions are explained in greater detail at Administrative divisions of the Peopl ...
References
County-level divisions of Qinghai
Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
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