Lhari County (Tibetan: ལྷ་རི་རྫོང་།; Chinese: 嘉黎县) is a small county within the prefecture-level city of Nagqu in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.

The 11th Dalai Lama was born in Lhari County, as were both of the rival candidates for the position of the current Panchen Lama.

Administrative divisions

The county contains the following 2 towns and 8 townships:

NameChineseHanyu PinyinTibetanWylie
Towns
Arza Town阿扎镇Ãzhā zhènཨར་རྩ་གྲོང་རྡལ།ar rtsa grong rdal
Lhari Town嘉黎镇Jiālí zhènལྷ་རི་་གྲོང་རྡལ།lha ri grong rdal
Townships
Nyiwu Township (Drongyül)尼屋乡Níwū xiāngསྙིའུ་ཤང་།snyi'u shang
Dzabbel Township (Zabbe)藏比乡Zàngbǐ xiāngརྫབ་འབེལ་ཤང་།rdzab 'bel shang
Codoi Township措多乡Cuòduō xiāngཚོ་སྟོད་ཤང་།tsho stod shang
Xarma Township夏玛乡Xiàmǎ xiāngཤར་མ་ཤང་།shar ma shang
Lingti Township林堤乡Líndī xiāngགླིང་མཐིལ་ཤང་།gling mthil shang
Mitika Township (Midikha, Cora, Tsora)麦地卡乡Màidìkǎ xiāngསྨི་ཏི་ཁ་ཤང་།smi ti kha shang
Rongdoi Township (Rongtö)绒多乡Róngduō xiāngརོང་སྟོད་ཤང་།rong stod shang
Goqung Township (Kochung)鸽群乡Gēqún xiāngཀོ་ཆུང་ཤང་།ko chung shang

Climate

Climate data for Lhari, elevation 4,489 m (14,728 ft), (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1991–present)
MonthJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecYear
Record high °C (°F)12.1 (53.8)11.6 (52.9)16.8 (62.2)18.5 (65.3)19.0 (66.2)21.0 (69.8)23.0 (73.4)22.4 (72.3)20.6 (69.1)17.8 (64.0)13.3 (55.9)13.2 (55.8)23.0 (73.4)
Mean daily maximum °C (°F)−1.1 (30.0)0.5 (32.9)3.1 (37.6)6.8 (44.2)10.8 (51.4)14.8 (58.6)16.1 (61.0)15.9 (60.6)13.9 (57.0)9.1 (48.4)4.0 (39.2)1.0 (33.8)7.9 (46.2)
Daily mean °C (°F)−10.1 (13.8)−7.9 (17.8)−4.2 (24.4)−0.3 (31.5)3.8 (38.8)7.7 (45.9)9.1 (48.4)8.6 (47.5)6.5 (43.7)1.6 (34.9)−4.8 (23.4)−8.6 (16.5)0.1 (32.2)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F)−17.9 (−0.2)−15.4 (4.3)−10.2 (13.6)−5.6 (21.9)−1.2 (29.8)2.7 (36.9)4.2 (39.6)3.8 (38.8)1.8 (35.2)−3.5 (25.7)−11.4 (11.5)−16.5 (2.3)−5.8 (21.6)
Record low °C (°F)−29.8 (−21.6)−31.1 (−24.0)−27.2 (−17.0)−15.4 (4.3)−10.1 (13.8)−5.0 (23.0)−3.3 (26.1)−4.0 (24.8)−6.9 (19.6)−17.1 (1.2)−24.2 (−11.6)−30.2 (−22.4)−31.1 (−24.0)
Average precipitation mm (inches)7.5 (0.30)12.6 (0.50)24.1 (0.95)38.5 (1.52)83.0 (3.27)152.1 (5.99)153.6 (6.05)132.6 (5.22)111.2 (4.38)37.9 (1.49)11.3 (0.44)5.1 (0.20)769.5 (30.31)
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm)7.28.613.215.519.223.123.822.020.513.15.94.1176.2
Average snowy days11.612.818.220.420.76.91.21.56.716.89.48.0134.2
Average relative humidity (%)49495459646972737263534860
Mean monthly sunshine hours209.1196.0218.4214.7224.0190.8174.1181.7187.8228.5227.9219.22,472.2
Percentage possible sunshine65625855534541455166727057
Source: China Meteorological Administration all-time extreme temperature

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