Which city does Lintan County belong to?

Lintan County belongs to Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Gansu Province.

Lintan County belongs to Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, which was called Zhou Tao in ancient times. It is located in the south of Gansu Province and the east of Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. Located on the northeast edge of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, it is the junction of agricultural and pastoral areas, Tibetan areas and Han areas. Lintan county has a total area of 1557.68 square kilometers, belonging to high mountains and hills, with an altitude of 2,209-3,926 meters and an average altitude of 2,825 meters.

The county governs 16 townships (towns) and 14 1 administrative villages. According to the data of the seventh census, as of 0: 00 1 1 on June 2020, the permanent population of Lintan County was 127387. There are Han, Hui, Tibetan, Mongolian and other ethnic groups 10, and the minority population accounts for 26% of the total population.

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Lintan county is a mountainous and hilly area, with high terrain in the west and low terrain in the east, and the southwest is inclined to the northeast. Most of the territory is low mountains and deep valleys, with overlapping peaks and mountains, complex terrain and criss-crossing gullies, with an altitude of 2200-3926 meters and an average altitude of 2825 meters. Most of the climate in Lintan County belongs to cold and arid areas, which are cold and humid and the four seasons are not clear.

There is more precipitation in the northeast than in the southwest, and drought, flood, hail and freezing are frequent. It has the plateau climate characteristics of long winter and summer, long spring and autumn, long winter but not cold, slow recovery in spring, rapid cooling in autumn, dry winter and wet autumn. The annual average temperature is 3.2℃, the annual precipitation is 383.2-668.2 mm, the evaporation is 93-356 mm, the sunshine hours are 23 14 hours, and the annual average frost-free period is about 65 days.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Lintan County