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Pasho County

Coordinates: 30°3′25″N 96°55′7″E / 30.05694°N 96.91861°E / 30.05694; 96.91861
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Pasho County
八宿县དཔའ་ཤོད་རྫོང་།
Baxoi, Pashö, Pashoi, Pashoe, Pashu
Baxoi County
The Kangri Karpo in Baxoi County
The Kangri Karpo in Baxoi County
Location of Baxoi County (red) in Chamdo City (yellow) and the Tibet Autonomous Region
Location of Baxoi County (red) in Chamdo City (yellow) and the Tibet Autonomous Region
Baxoi is located in Tibet
Baxoi
Baxoi
Location of the seat in the Tibet A.R.
Baxoi is located in China
Baxoi
Baxoi
Baxoi (China)
Coordinates: 30°3′25″N 96°55′7″E / 30.05694°N 96.91861°E / 30.05694; 96.91861
CountryChina
Autonomous regionTibet
Prefecture-level cityChamdo
County seatBaima (Pasho)
Area
 • Total12,328.31 km2 (4,759.99 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)[1]
 • Total43,538
 • Density3.5/km2 (9.1/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Websitebasu.changdu.gov.cn
Pasho County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese八宿县
Traditional Chinese八宿縣
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinBāsù Xiàn
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutpingbaat3suk1 jyun2
Tibetan name
Tibetanདཔའ་ཤོད་རྫོང་།
Transcriptions
Wyliedpa' shod rdzong
THLpa shö dzong
Tibetan PinyinBaxoi Zong

Pasho County[2][a] or Baxoi County (Tibetan: དཔའ་ཤོད་རྫོང་།; Chinese: 八宿县) is a county under the administration of Chamdo Prefecture in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China. The county seat is at Pema, which is also called the "Pasho Town".[4] The county population is 35,273 (1999). It contains the Pomda Monastery and Rakwa Tso lake.

Administrative divisions

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Pasho County is divided in 4 towns and 10 townships.

Name Chinese Hanyu Pinyin Tibetan Wylie
Town
Baima
(Pema, Pasho)
白玛镇 Báimǎ zhèn པད་མ་གྲོང་རྡལ། pad ma grong rdal
Bangda Town 帮达镇 Bāngdá zhèn སྤང་མདའ་གྲོང་རྡལ། spang mda' grong rdal
Ra'og Town 然乌镇 Ránwū zhèn རྭ་འོག་གྲོང་རྡལ། rwa 'og grong rdal
Tanggar Town 同卡镇 Tóngkǎ zhèn ཐང་དཀར་གྲོང་རྡལ། thang dkar grong rdal
Townships
Korqên Township 郭庆乡 Guōqìng xiāng འཁོར་ཆེན་ཤང་། 'khor chen shang
Lagê Township 拉根乡 Lāgēn xiāng གླ་སྐེ་ཤང་། gla ske shang
Yiqên Township 益庆乡 Yìqìng xiāng ཡིད་ཆེན་ཤང་། yid chen shang
Jirong Township 集中乡 Jízhōng xiāng དཀྱིལ་གྲོང་ཤང་། dkyil grong shang
Karwa pêkyim Township 卡瓦白庆乡 Kǎwǎbáiqìng xiāng མཁར་བ་འཕེལ་ཁྱིམ་ཤང་། mkhar ba 'phel khyim shang
Gyêda Township 吉达乡 Jídá xiāng སྐྱེ་མདའ་ཤང་། skye mda' shang
Gyari Township 夏里乡 Xiàlǐ xiāng སྐྱ་རི་ཤང་། skya ri shang
Yangpa Township 拥乡 Yōng xiāng ཡངས་པ་ཤང་། yangs pa shang
Wa Township 瓦乡 Wǎ xiāng ཝ་ཤང་། wa shang
Lingka Township 林卡乡 Línkǎ xiāng གླིང་ཁ་ཤང་། gling kha shang

Geography

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The Pasho County contains the BrahmaputraSalween water divide. The Ngajuk La pass (29°40′07″N 96°43′05″E / 29.6687°N 96.7181°E / 29.6687; 96.7181 (Ngajuk La)) is on the divide. To the north, Ling Chu flows north and east draning into Salween. To the south, Parlung Tsangpo flows south and west to drain into the Tsangpo River (the Tibetan section of Brahmaputra).[5][6]

Climate

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Climate data for Pasho, elevation 3,260 m (10,700 ft), (1991–2019 normals, extremes 1981–2010)
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Record high °C (°F) 18.4
(65.1)
19.6
(67.3)
25.0
(77.0)
25.4
(77.7)
30.3
(86.5)
31.9
(89.4)
33.4
(92.1)
31.6
(88.9)
32.0
(89.6)
27.9
(82.2)
22.0
(71.6)
17.7
(63.9)
33.4
(92.1)
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) 9.1
(48.4)
11.2
(52.2)
13.8
(56.8)
17.2
(63.0)
21.6
(70.9)
25.5
(77.9)
26.1
(79.0)
25.3
(77.5)
24.1
(75.4)
19.2
(66.6)
14.1
(57.4)
10.3
(50.5)
18.1
(64.6)
Daily mean °C (°F) 1.3
(34.3)
4.0
(39.2)
6.9
(44.4)
10.5
(50.9)
15.2
(59.4)
19.0
(66.2)
19.3
(66.7)
18.4
(65.1)
17.1
(62.8)
12.1
(53.8)
6.2
(43.2)
2.0
(35.6)
11.0
(51.8)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) −5.3
(22.5)
−2.4
(27.7)
1.2
(34.2)
5.1
(41.2)
9.7
(49.5)
14.0
(57.2)
14.4
(57.9)
13.6
(56.5)
11.9
(53.4)
6.4
(43.5)
−0.3
(31.5)
−4.7
(23.5)
5.3
(41.6)
Record low °C (°F) −14.9
(5.2)
−10.9
(12.4)
−8.5
(16.7)
−3.6
(25.5)
0.6
(33.1)
4.5
(40.1)
7.4
(45.3)
5.1
(41.2)
1.0
(33.8)
−4.3
(24.3)
−9.5
(14.9)
−16.9
(1.6)
−16.9
(1.6)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 0.3
(0.01)
1.9
(0.07)
8.5
(0.33)
18.6
(0.73)
21.5
(0.85)
29.0
(1.14)
62.6
(2.46)
58.6
(2.31)
31.9
(1.26)
14.3
(0.56)
2.6
(0.10)
1.3
(0.05)
251.1
(9.87)
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) 0.5 1.4 3.8 6.2 6.6 8.9 15.0 15.4 8.9 4.9 1.3 0.5 73.4
Average snowy days 1.2 2.4 4.0 2.0 0.2 0 0 0 0 0.5 1.6 0.8 12.7
Average relative humidity (%) 26 27 33 40 39 43 52 56 49 41 32 29 39
Mean monthly sunshine hours 212.9 223.8 252.8 245.7 260.9 232.9 201.4 199.4 218.9 233.1 216.8 207.6 2,706.2
Percent possible sunshine 65 71 68 63 61 55 47 49 60 67 69 66 62
Source: China Meteorological Administration[7][8]

Transport

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Pomda, Baxoi County

Maps

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Notes

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  1. ^ Alternative spellings Pashö, Pashoi, Pashoe and Pashu.[3]

References

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  1. ^ "昌都市第七次全国人口普查主要数据公报" (in Chinese). Government of Chamdo. 2021-06-22.
  2. ^ Dorje, Footprint Tibet (2004), p. 435.
  3. ^ Kingdon Ward & Smith, The Himalaya East of the Tsangpo (1934), p. 380.
  4. ^ Dorje, Footprint Tibet (2004), p. 436.
  5. ^ Dorje, Footprint Tibet (2004), pp. 436–437.
  6. ^ Kaulback, Ronald (1938). "A Journey in the Salween and Tsangpo Basins, South-Eastern Tibet". The Geographical Journal. 91 (2): 97–121. doi:10.2307/1788001. JSTOR 1788001.
  7. ^ 中国气象数据网 – WeatherBk Data (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 27 August 2023.
  8. ^ 中国气象数据网 (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 27 August 2023.

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