Country China County seat Markhu Thang Time zone China Standard (UTC+8) Area 1,714 km² | Elevation 1,990 m (6,530 ft) Postal code 811200 Population 55,325 (2010) Area code 0973 | |
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Jainzha County or Chentsa County (Tibetan: གཅན་ཚ།: Wylie: gcan tsha; Chinese: 尖扎县, pinyin: Jiānzhā Xiàn) is a county in Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai Province, China, to Tibetans in the area known as Malho Prefecture, part of Amdo. There are 6 townships, 3 towns and a total of 79 administrative villages in Chentsa county. The county has an area of 1714 square kilometres and a population of ~50,000 (2001), 67% Tibetan. The county seat is the town of Markhu Thang (Tibetan: མར་ཁུ་ཐང་།, Wylie: mar khu thang; Chinese: 马克堂, pinyin: Maketang).
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Map of Jainca, Huangnan, Qinghai, China
Climate
Jainca County has a cold semi-arid climate (Köppen BSk) and it had the extreme high temperature at Qinghai of 40.3 °C(104.5 °F) on July 24, 2000.
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Jainca County Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA