Mianning County
Coordinates: 28°32′N 102°05′E / 28.533°N 102.083°E
Mianning County
冕宁县 | |
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 A rural landscape in the county | |
 Location of Mianning County (red) within Liangshan Prefecture (yellow) and Sichuan | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Province | Sichuan |
| Autonomous prefecture | Liangshan |
| Area | |
| • Total | 4,432 km2 (1,711 sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
Mianning County (simplified Chinese: 冕宁县; traditional Chinese: 冕寧縣; pinyin: Miǎnníng Xiàn) is a county of Sichuan Province, China. It is under the administration of the Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture.
History[]
Mianning County has a long history of being a multi-ethnic region. The Annals of Mianning County (simplified Chinese: 冕宁县志; traditional Chinese: 冕寧縣志; pinyin: Miǎnníng Xiàn Zhì), published during the reign of the Xianfeng Emperor (1850-1861), listed a number of major ethnic groups in the region, including the Tosu, Lizu, Yi, and the Namuzi (Chinese: 纳木兹; pinyin: Nàmùzī) peoples.[1]
Climate[]
| Climate data for Mianning (1981−2010) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 22.1 (71.8) |
25.6 (78.1) |
31.4 (88.5) |
32.4 (90.3) |
33.8 (92.8) |
33.2 (91.8) |
33.3 (91.9) |
32.9 (91.2) |
32.0 (89.6) |
29.0 (84.2) |
25.6 (78.1) |
21.4 (70.5) |
33.8 (92.8) |
| Average high °C (°F) | 14.2 (57.6) |
16.7 (62.1) |
20.4 (68.7) |
23.5 (74.3) |
25.1 (77.2) |
24.7 (76.5) |
26.1 (79.0) |
26.2 (79.2) |
22.8 (73.0) |
19.9 (67.8) |
17.1 (62.8) |
14.3 (57.7) |
20.9 (69.7) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 5.9 (42.6) |
8.0 (46.4) |
11.3 (52.3) |
14.9 (58.8) |
17.9 (64.2) |
19.4 (66.9) |
20.7 (69.3) |
20.4 (68.7) |
17.8 (64.0) |
14.9 (58.8) |
10.9 (51.6) |
7.0 (44.6) |
14.1 (57.4) |
| Average low °C (°F) | −0.2 (31.6) |
1.0 (33.8) |
3.9 (39.0) |
8.0 (46.4) |
12.5 (54.5) |
15.8 (60.4) |
17.2 (63.0) |
16.7 (62.1) |
14.6 (58.3) |
11.5 (52.7) |
6.4 (43.5) |
1.8 (35.2) |
9.1 (48.4) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −6.3 (20.7) |
−7.6 (18.3) |
−3.8 (25.2) |
−0.9 (30.4) |
4.3 (39.7) |
8.5 (47.3) |
11.4 (52.5) |
10.6 (51.1) |
7.2 (45.0) |
3.6 (38.5) |
−4.0 (24.8) |
−6.3 (20.7) |
−7.6 (18.3) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 3.1 (0.12) |
5.5 (0.22) |
14.6 (0.57) |
41.9 (1.65) |
98.6 (3.88) |
200.0 (7.87) |
268.8 (10.58) |
213.0 (8.39) |
177.5 (6.99) |
60.6 (2.39) |
19.5 (0.77) |
3.6 (0.14) |
1,106.7 (43.57) |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 63 | 57 | 56 | 61 | 66 | 77 | 80 | 80 | 81 | 74 | 71 | 69 | 70 |
| Source: China Meteorological Data Service Center[2] | |||||||||||||
Administrative divisions[]
Mianning County administers 1 subdistrict, 15 towns, 2 townships, and 1 ethnic township.[3]
Subdistrict[]
The county's sole subdistrict is .[3]
Towns[]
The county administers the following 15 towns:[3]
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Townships[]
The county's two townships are and .[3]
Ethnic township[]
The county's sole ethnic township is .[3]
Demographics[]
Ethnic groups[]
A large number of the Tosu ethnic group, which comprises about 2,000 people, live throughout Mianning County.[1] Sizable clusters of Tosu people are located within , the former town of (now part of ), , , the former township of (now part of Gaoyang Subdistrict and ), the former township of (now part of Fuxing), and the former town of (now part of ).[1]
Languages[]
Two of the three Ersuic languages, the critically endangered Tosu language, and the Lizu language, are spoken within Mianning County.[4] A 2013 survey found nine partial speakers of the Tosu language, all of whom lived in Mianning County, and were proficient in Southwestern Mandarin, which they used for daily life.[4]
References[]
- ^ a b c Chirkova, Katia (2015-03-27). "The Duoxu Language and the Ersu-Lizu-Duoxu relationship". Archived from the original on 2022-01-13 – via HAL (open archive).
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ 中国地面气候标准值月值(1981-2010) (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Data Service Center. Retrieved 20 October 2018.
- ^ a b c d e 2021年统计用区划代码（冕宁县） [2021 Statistical Division Codes (Mianning County)] (in Chinese). National Bureau of Statistics of China. 2021. Archived from the original on 2022-01-13. Retrieved 2022-01-13.
- ^ a b Chirkova, Katia (2015-07-28). "A Phonological Sketch of Duoxu". HAL (open archive). Archived from the original on 2022-01-13.
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