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.
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 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] |
Mianning County administers 1 subdistrict, 15 towns, 2 townships, and 1 ethnic township.[3]
The county's sole subdistrict is Gaoyang Subdistrict [zh].[3]
The county administers the following 15 towns:[3]
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The county's two townships are Xinxing Township [zh] and Jianmei Township [zh].[3]
The county's sole ethnic township is He'ai Tibetan Ethnic Township [zh].[3]
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 Gaoyang Subdistrict [zh], the former town of Houshan [zh] (now part of Shilong [zh]), Fuxing [zh], Hui'an [zh], the former township of Haha [zh] (now part of Gaoyang Subdistrict and Ruoshui [zh]), the former township of Linli [zh] (now part of Fuxing), and the former town of Shaba [zh] (now part of Manshuiwan [zh]).[1]
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]
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