County in Ngawa Prefecture, Sichuan Province, China
County in Sichuan, China
Mao County or Maoxian (Chinese: 茂县; Tibetan: མའོ་རྫོང་།; Qiang: Shgvunyi) is a county in Ngawa Prefecture, Sichuan Province, China.
It has an area of 3,903 and a population of 106,700 as of 2006.[2] 88.9% of the population are Qiang people.[3] The county seat is Fengyi Town.[4]
Natural disasters
In 1933, an earthquake occurred near Diexi.
In 2017, a landslide occurred in Xinmo Village (新磨村), Diexi.[5][6]
Administrative divisions
Mao County has 11 towns.
| Name
|
Simplified Chinese
|
Hanyu Pinyin
|
Tibetan
|
Wylie
|
Qiang
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Administrative division code
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| Towns
|
Fengyi Town
(Fünyi)
|
凤仪镇
|
Fèngyí Zhèn
|
ཧྥུན་ཡིས་གྲོང་རྡལ།
|
hphun yis grong rdal
|
|
513223100
|
Nanxin Town
(Nainxin)
|
南新镇
|
Nánxīn Zhèn
|
ནན་ཤིན་གྲོང་རྡལ།
|
nan shin grong rdal
|
|
513223101
|
Diexi Town
(Dêxi)
|
叠溪镇
|
Diéxī Zhèn
|
ཏེ་ཞི་གྲོང་རྡལ།
|
te zhi grong rdal
|
|
513223102
|
Fushun Town
(Foshung)
|
富顺镇
|
Fùshùn Zhèn
|
ཧྥོ་ཧྲུང་གྲོང་རྡལ།
|
hpho hrung grong rdal
|
|
513223105
|
Tumen Town
(Tumin)
|
土门镇
|
Tǔmén Zhèn
|
ཐུའུ་མིན་གྲོང་རྡལ།
|
thu'u min grong rdal
|
|
513223107
|
Wadi Town
(Wadü)
|
洼底镇
|
Wādǐ Zhèn
|
བ་ཏུས་གྲོང་རྡལ།
|
ba tus grong rdal
|
Vvuaji
|
513223109
|
| Shaba Town
|
沙坝镇
|
Shābà Zhèn
|
|
|
Zhewa
|
513223110
|
Weimen Town
(Wümoin)
|
渭门镇
|
Wèimén Zhèn
|
ཝུའེ་མོན་གྲོང་རྡལ།
|
wu'e mon grong rdal
|
|
513223111
|
| Heihu Town
|
黑虎镇
|
Hēihǔ Zhèn
|
ཧྭེ་ཧུའུ་གྲོང་རྡལ།
|
hwe hu'u grong rdal
|
|
513223112
|
| Goukou Town
|
沟口镇
|
Gōukǒu Zhèn
|
གུག་ཁུག་གྲོང་རྡལ།
|
gug khug grong rdal
|
|
513223113
|
| Chibusu Town
|
赤不苏镇
|
Chìbúsū Zhèn
|
ཁྲི་པུའུ་སུའུ་གྲོང་རྡལ།
|
khri pu'u su'u grong rdal
|
Shbuvs
|
513223114
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Transport
Climate
| Climate data for Maoxian, elevation 1,590 m (5,220 ft), (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–2010)
|
| Month
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Jan
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Feb
|
Mar
|
Apr
|
May
|
Jun
|
Jul
|
Aug
|
Sep
|
Oct
|
Nov
|
Dec
|
Year
|
| Record high °C (°F)
|
18.2
(64.8)
|
26.3
(79.3)
|
29.0
(84.2)
|
28.3
(82.9)
|
30.3
(86.5)
|
29.7
(85.5)
|
32.2
(90.0)
|
31.6
(88.9)
|
29.4
(84.9)
|
25.6
(78.1)
|
22.8
(73.0)
|
20.4
(68.7)
|
32.2
(90.0)
|
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F)
|
5.9
(42.6)
|
8.1
(46.6)
|
12.4
(54.3)
|
17.8
(64.0)
|
21.0
(69.8)
|
23.7
(74.7)
|
25.8
(78.4)
|
25.4
(77.7)
|
21.4
(70.5)
|
16.6
(61.9)
|
12.6
(54.7)
|
7.8
(46.0)
|
16.5
(61.8)
|
| Daily mean °C (°F)
|
1.1
(34.0)
|
3.3
(37.9)
|
7.3
(45.1)
|
12.2
(54.0)
|
15.8
(60.4)
|
18.7
(65.7)
|
20.9
(69.6)
|
20.5
(68.9)
|
16.9
(62.4)
|
12.2
(54.0)
|
7.4
(45.3)
|
2.5
(36.5)
|
11.6
(52.8)
|
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F)
|
−2.4
(27.7)
|
0.0
(32.0)
|
3.6
(38.5)
|
7.8
(46.0)
|
11.4
(52.5)
|
14.5
(58.1)
|
16.7
(62.1)
|
16.5
(61.7)
|
13.7
(56.7)
|
9.2
(48.6)
|
3.6
(38.5)
|
−1.3
(29.7)
|
7.8
(46.0)
|
| Record low °C (°F)
|
−11.5
(11.3)
|
−10.4
(13.3)
|
−8.5
(16.7)
|
−0.7
(30.7)
|
2.2
(36.0)
|
7.0
(44.6)
|
9.9
(49.8)
|
7.8
(46.0)
|
4.5
(40.1)
|
−0.9
(30.4)
|
−5.4
(22.3)
|
−10.4
(13.3)
|
−11.5
(11.3)
|
| Average precipitation mm (inches)
|
3.2
(0.13)
|
5.7
(0.22)
|
22.6
(0.89)
|
49.1
(1.93)
|
67.6
(2.66)
|
79.0
(3.11)
|
70.0
(2.76)
|
71.8
(2.83)
|
52.6
(2.07)
|
41.3
(1.63)
|
9.8
(0.39)
|
1.9
(0.07)
|
474.6
(18.69)
|
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm)
|
6.6
|
7.8
|
12.5
|
15.7
|
18.2
|
18.1
|
15.8
|
14.2
|
15.1
|
16.1
|
6.5
|
3.7
|
150.3
|
| Average snowy days
|
14.9
|
11.1
|
4.1
|
0.3
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
1.4
|
7.9
|
39.7
|
| Average relative humidity (%)
|
68
|
70
|
71
|
71
|
73
|
77
|
77
|
77
|
80
|
80
|
76
|
70
|
74
|
| Mean monthly sunshine hours
|
133.2
|
114.2
|
128.2
|
149.1
|
148.2
|
123.7
|
144.3
|
150.4
|
92.9
|
92.3
|
125.5
|
134.7
|
1,536.7
|
| Percent possible sunshine
|
42
|
36
|
34
|
38
|
35
|
29
|
34
|
37
|
25
|
26
|
40
|
43
|
35
|
| Source: China Meteorological Administration[7][8]
|
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