Yulshul County

Yushu County

Yüxü County
— County —
Chinese transcription(s)
• Simplified	玉树县
• Traditional	玉樹縣
• Hanyu Pinyin	Yùshù Xiàn
Tibetan transcription(s)
• Tibetan script	ཡུལ་ཤུལ་རྫོང།
• Wylie	yul shul rdzong
• Tibetan pinyin	Yüxü Zong
Xia Laxiu, a rural community in the county
Yushu County (red) within Yushu Prefecture (yellow), Qinghai, and the PRC
Location in Qinghai
Coordinates: 33°00′N 97°00′E / 33°N 97°ECoordinates: 33°00′N 97°00′E / 33°N 97°E
Country	People's Republic of China
Province	Qinghai
Autonomous prefecture	Yushu
County seat	Gyêgu
Area
• Total	13,462 km (5,197.7 sq mi)
Elevation	3,689 m (12,103 ft)
Population (2000)
• Total	77,854
• Density	5.8/km (15/sq mi)
Time zone	China Standard (UTC+8)
Postal code	815000

Yushu County (Tibetan: ཡུལ་ཤུལ་རྫོང།, ZYPY: Yüxü Zong; Chinese: 玉树县) is a county of Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in the southernmost part of Qinghai province, Western China. It comprises a surface area of 13,462 square kilometres (5,198 sq mi). In 2000, the county's population was 77,854.

The county seat is the town of Gyêgu (Jiegu), built in the valley of the (Tibetan: དཔལ་ཆུ།, Wylie: dpal chu, ZYPY: Bä Qu; Chinese: 巴塘河), a right tributary of the Dri (Tongtian) River, which becomes the Yangtze River downstream.

Geography and climate

With an elevation of around 3,700 metres (12,000 ft), Yushu County has an alpine subarctic climate (Köppen Dwc), with long, cold, very dry winters, and short, rainy, and mild summers. The monthly daily mean temperature in January, the coldest month, is −7.6 °C (18.3 °F), while the same figure for July, the warmest month, is 12.7 °C (54.9 °F); the year averages out at 3.22 °C (37.8 °F). Most of the annual precipitation is delivered from June to September.

Transportation

The county is served by the China National Highway 214 and the recently constructed (opened 2009) Yushu Batang Airport.

See also

References

External links

• (Chinese) Yushu-Website in Chinese - Google translation

• Chengzhong District
• Chengdong District
• Chengxi District
• Chengbei District
• Datong County
• Huangyuan County
• Huangzhong County

Prefectures

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Autonomous prefectures

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Hainan	Gonghe County Tongde County Guide County Xinghai County Guinan County
Huangnan	Tongren County Jainca County Zêkog County Henan County
Golog	Maqên County Baima County Gadê County Darlag County Jigzhi County Madoi County
Yushu	Yushu County Zadoi County Chindu County Zhidoi County Nangqên County Qumarlêb County
Haixi	Delingha City Golmud City Wulan County Dulan County Tianjun County Lenghu Da Qaidam Mangya

^1 — These are administrative committees, which are not standard units of local government, though they do function as such.

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