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Town in Yunnan, China
Jiantang 建塘镇 · རྒྱལ་ཐང་རྡལ།
Town
Historical center of JiantangHistorical center of Jiantang
Jiantang is located in YunnanJiantangJiantang
Coordinates: 27°50′N 99°42′E / 27.833°N 99.700°E / 27.833; 99.700
CountryChina
ProvinceYunnan
PrefectureDêqên Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
CountyShangri-La County
Elevation3,282 m (10,768 ft)
Time zoneUTC+8 (CST)
Jiantang
Chinese name
Chinese建塘
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinJiàntáng
Tibetan name
Tibetanརྒྱལ་ཐང།
Transcriptions
Wyliergyal thang
Tibetan PinyinGyaitang

Jiantang or Gyaitang (Gyälthang) is a town in northern Yunnan, seat of Shangri-La County and Dêqên Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.

Languages

Khams Tibetan and Southwestern Mandarin are the main languages spoken in the town. Selibu is a Mandarin–Tibetan mixed language spoken by approximately 900 ethnic Hui people in the town.

Climate

Jiantang has a subtropical highland climate (Cwb) with little to no rainfall from November to April and moderate to heavy rainfall from May to October.

Climate data for Jiantang
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) 7.4
(45.3) 		7.9
(46.2) 		10.7
(51.3) 		13.5
(56.3) 		17.1
(62.8) 		18.3
(64.9) 		18.4
(65.1) 		18.1
(64.6) 		16.9
(62.4) 		14.6
(58.3) 		11.2
(52.2) 		8.6
(47.5) 		13.6
(56.4)
Daily mean °C (°F) 0.3
(32.5) 		1.4
(34.5) 		4.2
(39.6) 		7.2
(45.0) 		11.1
(52.0) 		13.5
(56.3) 		14.1
(57.4) 		13.6
(56.5) 		12.3
(54.1) 		8.9
(48.0) 		4.4
(39.9) 		1.4
(34.5) 		7.7
(45.9)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) −6.7
(19.9) 		−5.1
(22.8) 		−2.3
(27.9) 		1.0
(33.8) 		5.1
(41.2) 		8.7
(47.7) 		9.9
(49.8) 		9.2
(48.6) 		7.8
(46.0) 		3.3
(37.9) 		−2.3
(27.9) 		−5.7
(21.7) 		1.9
(35.4)
Average rainfall mm (inches) 5
(0.2) 		11
(0.4) 		22
(0.9) 		36
(1.4) 		59
(2.3) 		127
(5.0) 		194
(7.6) 		171
(6.7) 		102
(4.0) 		61
(2.4) 		13
(0.5) 		6
(0.2) 		807
(31.6)
Source: Climate-Data.org

References

  1. Zhou, Yang; Suzuki, Hiroyuki (2021-11-10). "Evidentiality in Selibu". Diachronica. 39 (2). John Benjamins Publishing Company: 268–309. doi:10.1075/dia.19055.zho. ISSN 0176-4225.
  2. "Climate: Jiantang". Climate-Data.org. Retrieved September 17, 2020.
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