Barkam
马尔康市 · འབར་ཁམས་གྲོང་ཁྱེར། · Muerkvua shi
Ma'erkang
Overview of the city of Barkam
Overview of the city of Barkam
Barkam City (red) in Ngawa Prefecture (yellow) and Sichuan
Barkam City (red) in Ngawa Prefecture (yellow) and Sichuan
Barkam is located in Sichuan
Barkam
Barkam
Location of the seat in Sichuan
Barkam is located in China
Barkam
Barkam
Barkam (China)
Coordinates (Barkam municipal government): 31°54′21″N 102°12′23″E / 31.9057°N 102.2065°E / 31.9057; 102.2065
CountryChina
ProvinceSichuan
Autonomous prefectureNgawa
SeatBarkam Town
Area
  Total6,639 km2 (2,563 sq mi)
Elevation
2,615 m (8,579 ft)
Population
 (2020)[1]
  Total58,390
  Density8.8/km2 (23/sq mi)
Postal code
624000
Area code0837
Websitewww.maerkang.gov.cn
Barkam
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese马尔康
Traditional Chinese馬爾康
Tibetan name
Tibetanའབར་ཁམས།
Qiang name
QiangMuerkvua

Barkam or Markang or Muerkvua is a county-level city in Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, in the northwest of Sichuan province, China. The city seat is the town of Barkam.

Administrative divisions

Barkam has four towns and 10 townships:[2]

Name Simplified Chinese Hanyu Pinyin Tibetan Wylie Qiang Administrative division code
Towns
Barkam Town
(Mar'erkang)
马尔康镇 Mǎ'ěrkāng Zhèn འབར་ཁམས་གྲོང་རྡལ། vbar khams grong rdal Bbadh kangw seqea 513201100
Zonggag Town
(Songgang)
松岗镇 Sōnggǎng Zhèn རྫོང་འགག་གྲོང་རྡལ། rdzong vgag grong rdal 513201102
Sarzong Town
(Sha'erzong)
沙尔宗镇 Shā'ěrzōng Zhèn གསར་རྫོང་གྲོང་རྡལ། gsar rdzong grong rdal 513201103
Townships
Somang Township
(Suomo)
梭磨乡 Suōmó Xiāng སོ་མང་ཡུལ་ཚོ། so mang yul tsho 513201200
Chagpar Township
(Baiwan)
白湾乡 Báiwān Xiāng བྲག་བར་ཡུལ་ཚོ། brag bar yul tsho 513201201
Tamba Township
(Dangba)
党坝乡 Dǎngbà Xiāng དམ་པ་ཡུལ་ཚོ། dam pa yul tsho 513201202
Zhongzong Township
(Mu'erzong)
木尔宗乡 Dǎngbà Xiāng འབྲོང་རྫོང་ཡུལ་ཚོ། vbrong rdzong yul tsho 513201203
Gyomgyo Township
(Jiaomuzu, Jomzhu)
脚木足乡 Jiǎomùzú Xiāng ཀྱོམ་ཀྱོ་ཡུལ་ཚོ། kyom kyo yul tsho 513201204
Donggyai Township
(Long'erjia)
龙尔甲乡 Lóng'ěrjiǎ Xiāng གདོང་བརྒྱད་ཡུལ་ཚོ། gdong brgyad yul tsho 513201206
Tacang Township
(Dazang)
大藏乡 Dàzàng Xiāng ད་ཚང་ཡུལ་ཚོ། da tshang yul tsho 513201207
Kangsar Township
(Kangshan)
康山乡 Kāngshān Xiāng ཁང་སར་ཡུལ་ཚོ། khang sar yul tsho 513201208
Codün Township
(Caodeng)
草登乡 Cǎodēng Xiāng ཚོ་བདུན་ཡུལ་ཚོ། tsho bdun yul tsho 513201209
Zongbur Township
(Ribu)
日部乡 Rìbù Xiāng རྫོང་འབུར་ཡུལ་ཚོ། rdzong vbur yul tsho 513201210

Transport

Climate

Due to its elevation, Barkam lies in the transition between a subtropical highland climate (Köppen Cwb) and humid continental climate (Köppen Dwb), with strong monsoonal influences; winters are frosty and summers warm with frequent rain. The monthly 24-hour average temperature ranges from −0.5 °C (31.1 °F) in December and January to 16.4 °C (61.5 °F) in July, while the annual mean is 8.75 °C (47.7 °F). Nearly two-thirds of the annual precipitation of 784 mm (30.9 in) occurs from June to September. With monthly percent possible sunshine ranging from 36% in June to 65% in December, the town receives 2,133 hours of bright sunshine annually. Diurnal temperature variation is large, averaging 16.0 °C (28.8 °F) annually.

Climate data for Barkam (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1971–2010)
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Record high °C (°F) 22.1
(71.8)
24.8
(76.6)
26.8
(80.2)
31.3
(88.3)
34.7
(94.5)
35.7
(96.3)
35.5
(95.9)
36.3
(97.3)
32.4
(90.3)
30.6
(87.1)
23.3
(73.9)
19.3
(66.7)
36.3
(97.3)
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) 11.1
(52.0)
14.4
(57.9)
17.0
(62.6)
19.9
(67.8)
22.5
(72.5)
23.9
(75.0)
25.6
(78.1)
25.8
(78.4)
23.1
(73.6)
18.8
(65.8)
15.3
(59.5)
11.0
(51.8)
19.0
(66.2)
Daily mean °C (°F) −0.2
(31.6)
3.4
(38.1)
6.8
(44.2)
10.1
(50.2)
12.9
(55.2)
15.1
(59.2)
16.6
(61.9)
16.3
(61.3)
13.7
(56.7)
9.2
(48.6)
4.1
(39.4)
−0.2
(31.6)
9.0
(48.2)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) −7.3
(18.9)
−4.0
(24.8)
−0.3
(31.5)
3.2
(37.8)
6.6
(43.9)
10.0
(50.0)
11.3
(52.3)
10.9
(51.6)
8.8
(47.8)
4.1
(39.4)
−2.3
(27.9)
−6.8
(19.8)
2.9
(37.1)
Record low °C (°F) −16.0
(3.2)
−13.6
(7.5)
−12.6
(9.3)
−6.2
(20.8)
−2.2
(28.0)
0.1
(32.2)
2.2
(36.0)
1.5
(34.7)
−0.6
(30.9)
−5.7
(21.7)
−10.7
(12.7)
−16.6
(2.1)
−16.6
(2.1)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 3.3
(0.13)
7.8
(0.31)
27.4
(1.08)
57.4
(2.26)
115.6
(4.55)
164.4
(6.47)
130.0
(5.12)
105.2
(4.14)
122.2
(4.81)
78.1
(3.07)
11.5
(0.45)
3.1
(0.12)
826
(32.51)
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) 2.5 5.6 10.5 14.9 20.5 22.7 19.6 17.7 18.9 16.3 5.4 2.2 156.8
Average snowy days 4.1 6.8 6.4 1.9 0.6 0 0 0 0 0.9 2.9 3.3 26.9
Average relative humidity (%) 45 44 50 56 65 74 75 74 77 74 59 50 62
Mean monthly sunshine hours 196.8 175.6 184.1 185.1 181.6 147.5 167.8 173.6 155.9 156.0 186.7 200.7 2,111.4
Percent possible sunshine 61 56 49 47 42 35 39 43 43 45 60 64 49
Source 1: China Meteorological Administration[3][4]
Source 2: Weather China[5]

Demographics

The city had a population of 54,735 in 1999.[6] The area is traditionally inhabited by a branch of Rgyalrong people who speak the Situ language.[7]

Notes

  1. "阿坝州第七次全国人口普查公报第二号——县(市)人口情况" (in Chinese). Government of Ngawa Prefecture. 2021-06-11.
  2. (in Chinese) National Bureau of Statistics - Barkam City.
  3. 中国气象数据网 – WeatherBk Data (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 13 April 2023.
  4. 中国气象数据网 (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 13 April 2023.
  5. 马尔康 - 气象数据 -中国天气网 (in Chinese). Weather China. Retrieved 27 November 2022.
  6. National Population Statistics Materials by County and City - 1999 Period, in China County & City Population 1999, Harvard China Historical GIS
  7. "Rgyalrong Culture" 嘉绒人文. Ma'erkang City Government website. Archived from the original on 2019-03-28. Retrieved 2019-09-19.
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