Where is Medog County?
Medog County means "flower". It belongs to Linzhi City, Xizang Autonomous Region City, People's Republic of China (PRC) and the counties under Linzhi City. Located in the southeast of Tibet, downstream of Yarlung Zangbo River.
It borders Chayu County in the east, India in the south (some areas are in southern Tibet), Milin City, Zi Long County and Cuona City in the west, and bomi county and Bayi District in the north, with a total area of 314500 square kilometers. According to the data of the seventh national census, as of 0: 00 1 1 on June 2020, the permanent population of Medog County was 14889.
Medog County is the last county where the Yarlung Zangbo River flows through China before entering Assam Plain. The residents in the county are mainly Menba and Loba. The main section of Yarlung Zangbo River Grand Canyon is in the county seat, which is the place with the lowest altitude, the mildest rainfall and the best ecological preservation on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
Climatic characteristics
The general climate characteristics of Medog County are: warm winter, light rain and foggy, abundant rainfall in summer, concentrated precipitation, humid air, high relative humidity, no severe cold in winter and no intense heat in summer.
There are many types of landforms in Medog County, mainly high mountains and deep valleys. Due to the large topographic difference (relative height difference of more than 7000 meters), the vertical change of climate in mountainous areas is obvious. In the mountainous area of Duoxiongla, south of the Yarlung Zangbo River bend, vertical climatic zones such as mountain sub-frigid zone, mountain temperate zone, mountain subtropical zone and mountain tropical zone have appeared successively from the cold area where snow covers all the year round.
The annual sunshine hours in Medog County are 1500.7 hours, with the most sunshine hours being 1600.5 hours and the least sunshine hours being 1489.5 hours. The month with the most sunshine hours is 65438+February, with an average of 146.6 hours, and the month with the least sunshine hours is June, with an average of 100.7 hours.
Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Medog County