County in Qinghai, China
Xinghai County (Chinese: 兴海县; Tibetan: བྲག་དཀར་རྫོང་།) is a county under the jurisdiction of Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, in the east-central part of Qinghai Province, China.
Xinghai has an area of 13,158 km2 (5,080 sq mi), and a 2001 population of 60,000.
Administrative divisions
Xinghai is made up of 3 towns, and 4 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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Zigortang Town (Ziketan)
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子科滩镇
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Zǐkētān Zhèn
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རྩི་གོར་ཐང་གྲོང་བརྡལ།
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rtsi gor thang grong brdal
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632524100
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Hoika Town (Heka)
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河卡镇
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Hékǎ Zhèn
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ཧོལ་ཁ་གྲོང་རྡལ།
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hol kha grong rdal
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632524101
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Qu'ngoin Town (Qushi'an)
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曲什安镇
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Qǔshí'ān Zhèn
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ཆུ་སྔོན་གྲོང་བརྡལ།
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chu sngon grong brdal
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632524102
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Townships
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Qukoi Township (Tsigorthang,[2] Wenquan)
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温泉乡
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Wēnquán Xiāng
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ཆུ་ཁོལ་ཞང་།
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chu khol zhang
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632524200
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Lungsang Township (Longzang, Longcang)
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龙藏乡
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Lóngzàng Xiāng
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ལུང་བཟང་ཞང་།
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lung bzang zhang
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632524201
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Zhongtü Township (Zhongtie)
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中铁乡
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Zhōngtiě Xiāng
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འབྲོང་མཐུལ་ཞང་།
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'brong mthul zhang
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632524202
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Tangnag Township (Tangnaihai)
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唐乃亥乡
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Tángnǎihài Xiāng
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ཐང་ནག་ཞང་།
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thang nag zhang
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632524203
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Climate
Climate data for Xinghai, elevation 3,323 m (10,902 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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Record high °C (°F)
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12.9 (55.2)
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15.0 (59.0)
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20.1 (68.2)
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25.5 (77.9)
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24.9 (76.8)
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25.7 (78.3)
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30.2 (86.4)
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29.9 (85.8)
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26.9 (80.4)
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19.6 (67.3)
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13.8 (56.8)
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12.8 (55.0)
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30.2 (86.4)
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Mean daily maximum °C (°F)
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−0.5 (31.1)
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2.9 (37.2)
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7.0 (44.6)
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11.7 (53.1)
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14.6 (58.3)
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16.8 (62.2)
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19.2 (66.6)
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19.2 (66.6)
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15.5 (59.9)
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10.3 (50.5)
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5.3 (41.5)
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0.7 (33.3)
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10.2 (50.4)
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Daily mean °C (°F)
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−10.9 (12.4)
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−7.0 (19.4)
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−2.0 (28.4)
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3.7 (38.7)
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7.6 (45.7)
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10.8 (51.4)
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13.0 (55.4)
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12.4 (54.3)
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8.4 (47.1)
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2.0 (35.6)
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−4.8 (23.4)
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−10.0 (14.0)
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1.9 (35.5)
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Mean daily minimum °C (°F)
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−19.4 (−2.9)
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−15.5 (4.1)
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−10.0 (14.0)
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−4.2 (24.4)
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0.6 (33.1)
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4.7 (40.5)
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6.9 (44.4)
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6.2 (43.2)
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2.6 (36.7)
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−4.4 (24.1)
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−12.4 (9.7)
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−18.3 (−0.9)
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−5.3 (22.5)
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Record low °C (°F)
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−31.5 (−24.7)
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−30.9 (−23.6)
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−24.1 (−11.4)
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−18.1 (−0.6)
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−9.8 (14.4)
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−5.7 (21.7)
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−1.9 (28.6)
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−3.8 (25.2)
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−7.5 (18.5)
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−15.1 (4.8)
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−26.6 (−15.9)
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−28.7 (−19.7)
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−31.5 (−24.7)
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Average precipitation mm (inches)
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1.5 (0.06)
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2.2 (0.09)
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5.8 (0.23)
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15.0 (0.59)
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48.2 (1.90)
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77.0 (3.03)
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92.3 (3.63)
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77.6 (3.06)
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54.3 (2.14)
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14.7 (0.58)
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1.6 (0.06)
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1.0 (0.04)
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391.2 (15.41)
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Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm)
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2.0
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2.1
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4.1
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5.7
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12.8
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17.7
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17.9
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16.3
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13.7
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6.6
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1.3
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0.9
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101.1
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Average snowy days
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3.1
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3.4
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6.0
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6.5
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4.1
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0.4
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0
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0.1
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0.8
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5.4
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2.2
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1.3
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33.3
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Average relative humidity (%)
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38
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35
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36
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41
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54
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65
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69
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69
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69
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58
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42
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37
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51
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Mean monthly sunshine hours
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229.6
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211.0
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235.9
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239.6
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227.7
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197.8
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209.4
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216.6
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188.8
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227.4
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239.9
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237.4
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2,661.1
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Percent possible sunshine
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73
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68
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63
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61
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52
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46
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48
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53
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51
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66
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79
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79
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62
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Source: China Meteorological Administration[3][4]
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See also
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