Mengla County
Mengla County
勐腊县 · ᦵᦙᦲᧂ ᦟᦱᧉ ᦶᦉᧃᧈ | |
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| Location of Mengla County (red) within Xishuangbanna Prefecture (pink) and Yunnan Location of Mengla County (red) within Xishuangbanna Prefecture (pink) and Yunnan | |
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| Country | China |
| Province | Yunnan |
| Autonomous prefecture | Xishuangbanna |
| GB/T 2260 CODE[1] | 532823 |
| County seat | Mengla |
| Area | |
• Total | 7,056 km2 (2,724 sq mi) |
| Population (2020 census)[2] | |
• Total | 304,950 |
| • Density | 43.22/km2 (111.9/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Postal code | 666300[3] |
| Area code | 0691[3] |
| Website | www |
| 1Yunnan Statistics Bureau [1] 2Xishuangbanna Gov. [2] 3Yunnan Portal [3] | |
Mengla County (simplified Chinese: 勐腊县; traditional Chinese: 勐臘縣; pinyin: Měnglà Xiàn; Tai Lue: ᦵᦙᦲᧂ ᦟᦱᧉ ᦶᦉᧃᧈ, Mueang La; Burmese: မိုးလား, Lao: ເມືອງລ້າ; Thai: เมืองล้า) is a county under the jurisdiction of the Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, in far southern Yunnan province, China. Meng is a variation of Mueang.
Name
[edit | edit source]"Mongla", "Mengla" and "Meungla" are different romanizations of the same Tai word. Thus, to differentiate Mengla County in China and Mong La Township in Myanmar, the locals call the former Greater Mengla/Mongla while the latter Lesser Mongla/Mengla.
Administrative divisions
[edit | edit source]Mengla County has 8 towns and 2 townships.[4]
- 8 Towns: Mengla (勐腊镇), Mengpeng (勐捧镇), Mengman (勐满镇), Menglun (勐仑镇), Mohan (磨憨镇), Mengban (勐伴镇), Guanlei (关累镇), and Yiwu (易武镇)
- 2 Ethnic Townships: Yi Xiangming (象明彝族乡) and Yao Yaoqu (瑶区瑶族乡)
Biodiversity
[edit | edit source]Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), is located in Menglun in Mengla County, covering an area of more than 1000 ha. Over 13,000 species of tropical plants are preserved in its 35 living collections.[5]
The last Indochinese tiger in the wild in China is believed to have been killed near Mengla in 2009. The perpetrator is believed to have been sentenced to 12 years imprisonment for this. [citation needed]
A tiny frog, Raorchestes menglaensis (known as the Zhishihe's bubble-nest frog or Mengla small treefrog) is only known from its type locality, Zhishihe in Mengla County.[6]
Climate
[edit | edit source]Mengla has a humid subtropical climate with monsoonal influences (Köppen Cwa) closely bordering on the tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw) with strong monsoonal influences. Summer is long and there is virtually no "winter" as such; instead, there is a dry season (December-April) and wet season (May-October). The coolest month is December, averaging 18.9 °C (66.0 °F), while the warmest is June, at 26.9 °C (80.4 °F); the annual mean is 23.7 °C (74.7 °F). However, high temperatures reach their peak in April before the onset of the monsoon from the Indian Ocean.
| Climate data for Mengla, elevation 633 m (2,077 ft), (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1971–2010) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 32.1 (89.8) |
34.3 (93.7) |
37.0 (98.6) |
37.5 (99.5) |
39.9 (103.8) |
36.7 (98.1) |
35.3 (95.5) |
35.0 (95.0) |
34.1 (93.4) |
33.9 (93.0) |
32.3 (90.1) |
30.3 (86.5) |
39.9 (103.8) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 25.6 (78.1) |
28.3 (82.9) |
30.8 (87.4) |
32.3 (90.1) |
32.2 (90.0) |
31.3 (88.3) |
30.2 (86.4) |
30.6 (87.1) |
30.2 (86.4) |
29.2 (84.6) |
27.2 (81.0) |
24.6 (76.3) |
29.4 (84.9) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 16.7 (62.1) |
18.1 (64.6) |
20.8 (69.4) |
23.5 (74.3) |
25.1 (77.2) |
25.7 (78.3) |
25.2 (77.4) |
25.0 (77.0) |
24.5 (76.1) |
22.8 (73.0) |
19.7 (67.5) |
16.8 (62.2) |
22.0 (71.6) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 12.1 (53.8) |
12.1 (53.8) |
14.7 (58.5) |
18.3 (64.9) |
20.9 (69.6) |
22.5 (72.5) |
22.6 (72.7) |
22.4 (72.3) |
21.6 (70.9) |
19.7 (67.5) |
16.1 (61.0) |
13.1 (55.6) |
18.0 (64.4) |
| Record low °C (°F) | 0.5 (32.9) |
5.9 (42.6) |
6.1 (43.0) |
11.2 (52.2) |
15.7 (60.3) |
18.4 (65.1) |
18.2 (64.8) |
18.0 (64.4) |
15.3 (59.5) |
9.4 (48.9) |
6.1 (43.0) |
1.1 (34.0) |
0.5 (32.9) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 25.3 (1.00) |
19.1 (0.75) |
54.4 (2.14) |
101.0 (3.98) |
157.3 (6.19) |
195.5 (7.70) |
323.4 (12.73) |
313.9 (12.36) |
157.9 (6.22) |
78.9 (3.11) |
43.9 (1.73) |
31.6 (1.24) |
1,502.2 (59.15) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 3.6 | 3.2 | 6.1 | 12.4 | 17.4 | 20.8 | 24.6 | 23.3 | 15.7 | 10.4 | 5.8 | 4.2 | 147.5 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 83 | 76 | 75 | 77 | 80 | 83 | 86 | 87 | 85 | 84 | 85 | 85 | 82 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 169.2 | 192.9 | 205.3 | 199.9 | 199.7 | 137.9 | 101.1 | 120.2 | 157.6 | 159.6 | 167.6 | 156.2 | 1,967.2 |
| Percentage possible sunshine | 50 | 60 | 55 | 53 | 49 | 34 | 25 | 30 | 43 | 45 | 51 | 47 | 45 |
| Source 1: China Meteorological Administration[7][8] | |||||||||||||
| Source 2: Weather China[9] | |||||||||||||
Transport
[edit | edit source]- Nearest airport is Xishuangbanna Gasa
- China National Highway 213
- Asian Highway Network AH3
- Kunming-Bangkok Expressway
- Yuxi–Mohan Railway
See also
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External links
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