County in Qinghai, China
Maqên or Maqin County is a county of Qinghai Province, China. It is under the administration of Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.
Name
The county is named for Anyê Maqên, the Tibetan name for a revered local mountain.[citation needed]
Administrative divisions
Maqên is divided into two towns and six townships:
Name
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Simplified Chinese
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Hanyu Pinyin
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Tibetan
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Wylie
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Administrative division code
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Towns
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Dawo Town (Dawu)
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大武镇
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Dàwǔ Zhèn
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རྟ་བོ་གྲོང་བརྡལ།
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rta bo grong brdal
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632621100
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Ra'gya Town (Lajia)
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拉加镇
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Lājiā Zhèn
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རྭ་རྒྱ་གྲོང་བརྡལ།
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rwa rgya grong brdal
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632621101
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Townships
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Dawo Township (Dawu)
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大武乡
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Dàwǔ Xiāng
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རྟ་བོ་ཡུལ་ཚོ།
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rta bo yul tsho
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632621200
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Domkog Township (Dongqinggou)
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东倾沟乡
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Dōngqīnggōu Xiāng
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སྡོམ་ཁོག་ཡུལ་ཚོ།
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sdom khog yul tsho
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632621201
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Kangri Township (Xueshan)
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雪山乡
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Xuěshān Xiāng
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གངས་རི་ཡུལ་ཚོ།
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gangs ri yul tsho
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632621202
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Damai Township (Xiadawu)
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下大武乡
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Xiàdàwǔ Xiāng
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རྟ་སྨད་ཡུལ་ཚོ།
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rta smad yul tsho
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632621203
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Yigxung Township (Youyun)
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优云乡
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Yōuyún Xiāng
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དབྱིག་གཞུང་ཡུལ་ཚོ།
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dbyig gzhung yul tsho
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632621204
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Tanglag Township (Dangluo)
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当洛乡
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Dāngluò Xiāng
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དྭངས་ལག་ཡུལ་ཚོ།
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dwangs lag yul tsho
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632621205
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Climate
Maqên County has a subalpine climate (Köppen Dwc) bordering on an alpine tundra climate
Climate data for Maqên County, elevation 3,719 m (12,201 ft), (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–2010)
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Month
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Jan
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Feb
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Mar
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Apr
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May
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Jun
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Jul
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Aug
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Sep
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Oct
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Nov
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Dec
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Year
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Mean daily maximum °C (°F)
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−0.3 (31.5)
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2.1 (35.8)
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5.6 (42.1)
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9.9 (49.8)
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12.8 (55.0)
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15.0 (59.0)
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17.4 (63.3)
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17.5 (63.5)
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14.6 (58.3)
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9.3 (48.7)
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4.5 (40.1)
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0.8 (33.4)
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9.1 (48.4)
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Daily mean °C (°F)
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−11.3 (11.7)
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−8.0 (17.6)
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−3.5 (25.7)
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1.4 (34.5)
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5.2 (41.4)
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8.5 (47.3)
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10.6 (51.1)
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10.1 (50.2)
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6.9 (44.4)
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1.2 (34.2)
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−5.5 (22.1)
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−10.4 (13.3)
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0.4 (32.8)
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Mean daily minimum °C (°F)
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−20.5 (−4.9)
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−16.8 (1.8)
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−11.1 (12.0)
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−5.7 (21.7)
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−1.0 (30.2)
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3.2 (37.8)
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5.0 (41.0)
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4.3 (39.7)
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1.6 (34.9)
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−4.2 (24.4)
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−12.7 (9.1)
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−19.2 (−2.6)
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−6.4 (20.4)
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Record low °C (°F)
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−33.1 (−27.6)
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−31.9 (−25.4)
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−29.1 (−20.4)
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−20.0 (−4.0)
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−12.8 (9.0)
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−6.0 (21.2)
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−4.0 (24.8)
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−5.5 (22.1)
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−7.5 (18.5)
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−17.8 (0.0)
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−26.6 (−15.9)
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−33.1 (−27.6)
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−33.1 (−27.6)
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Average precipitation mm (inches)
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3.2 (0.13)
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4.6 (0.18)
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9.1 (0.36)
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20.5 (0.81)
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62.0 (2.44)
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98.9 (3.89)
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118.2 (4.65)
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100 (3.9)
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77.9 (3.07)
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30.8 (1.21)
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4.4 (0.17)
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1.4 (0.06)
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531 (20.87)
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Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm)
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4.1
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5.5
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8.2
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10.7
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17.4
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20.2
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20.2
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18.4
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18.0
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13.3
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3.8
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2.2
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142
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Average snowy days
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6.9
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8.8
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12.1
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13.9
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11.8
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2.4
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1.0
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0.4
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3.9
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13.1
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5.7
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4.1
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84.1
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Average relative humidity (%)
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51
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50
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51
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55
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63
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69
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72
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72
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72
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66
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57
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50
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61
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Mean monthly sunshine hours
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219.7
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202.6
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232.2
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234.4
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217.5
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180.6
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197.4
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205.5
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179.6
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210.8
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233.5
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227.4
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2,541.2
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Percent possible sunshine
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70
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65
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62
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60
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50
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42
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45
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50
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49
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61
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76
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75
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59
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Source: China Meteorological Administration[2][3]
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See also
References