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Biru County

Biru County
比如县 • འབྲི་རུ་རྫོང་།
Diru, Driru, Biru
County
Location of Biru County (red) within Nagqu City (yellow) and the Tibet Autonomous Region
Location of Biru County (red) within Nagqu City (yellow) and the Tibet Autonomous Region
Biru is located in Tibet
Biru
Biru
Location of the seat in Tibet Autonomous Region
Biru is located in China
Biru
Biru
Biru (China)
Coordinates: 31°46′39″N 93°33′00″E / 31.77750°N 93.55000°E / 31.77750; 93.55000
CountryChina
Autonomous regionTibet
Prefecture-level cityNagqu
County seatBiru
Area
 • Total
11,683.45 km2 (4,511.01 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)[1]
 • Total
72,618
 • Density6.2/km2 (16/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Websitewww.xzbr.gov.cn
Biru County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese比如县
Traditional Chinese比如縣
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinBǐrú Xiàn
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutpingbei2jyu4 jyun2
Tibetan name
Tibetanའབྲི་རུ་རྫོང་།
Transcriptions
Wylie'bri ru rdzong
Tibetan PinyinBiru Zong

Biru County (Tibetan: འབྲི་རུ་རྫོང་།; Chinese: 比如县) is the most populated county within Nagqu of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China. The name means "female yak". Either of the following pronunciations can be considered correct in Standard Tibetan: [bìru] ~ [pìru] (conventionally written Biru in English) or [ɖìru] ~ [ʈìru] (conventionally Driru).

Geography

Biru lies in the southwest part of the former province of Kham. To its east is Chamdo and to its west Nagchu. Biru is located on the Gyalmo Ngulchu River (upper part of Salween River). Diru is bordered by Sog County to the northwest and the extreme east of Banbar County་, is also surrounded by Lhari County to the south, and extreme north to the Nagchu county.

Sepu Kangri is located in the county.

Climate

Climate data for Biru, elevation 3,940 m (12,930 ft), (1991–2020 normals)
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) 2.3
(36.1) 		4.6
(40.3) 		8.1
(46.6) 		12.1
(53.8) 		15.9
(60.6) 		19.0
(66.2) 		20.7
(69.3) 		20.8
(69.4) 		18.2
(64.8) 		12.9
(55.2) 		7.9
(46.2) 		4.3
(39.7) 		12.2
(54.0)
Daily mean °C (°F) −6.3
(20.7) 		−3.5
(25.7) 		0.3
(32.5) 		4.2
(39.6) 		7.9
(46.2) 		11.4
(52.5) 		12.9
(55.2) 		12.6
(54.7) 		10.0
(50.0) 		4.7
(40.5) 		−1.2
(29.8) 		−5.2
(22.6) 		4.0
(39.2)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) −13.3
(8.1) 		−10.4
(13.3) 		−6.2
(20.8) 		−2.1
(28.2) 		2.0
(35.6) 		5.9
(42.6) 		7.6
(45.7) 		7.2
(45.0) 		4.8
(40.6) 		−0.8
(30.6) 		−7.6
(18.3) 		−12.4
(9.7) 		−2.1
(28.2)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 5.8
(0.23) 		7.0
(0.28) 		10.0
(0.39) 		16.8
(0.66) 		66.2
(2.61) 		132.4
(5.21) 		125.4
(4.94) 		105.6
(4.16) 		86.8
(3.42) 		36.2
(1.43) 		5.3
(0.21) 		3.8
(0.15) 		601.3
(23.69)
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) 5.0 5.5 7.4 9.7 17.6 23.4 22.0 20.4 20.1 10.9 3.5 2.9 148.4
Average snowy days 6.6 8.0 11.1 12.6 6.1 0.7 0 0 0.3 8.2 4.9 4.2 62.7
Average relative humidity (%) 42 40 41 47 56 64 67 67 67 58 46 40 53
Mean monthly sunshine hours 161.5 160.2 186.3 203.6 216.3 189.8 190.5 196.4 185.7 196.6 180.2 173.2 2,240.3
Percent possible sunshine 50 51 50 52 51 45 44 48 51 56 57 55 51
Source: China Meteorological Administration[2][3]

Administrative divisions

Biru county contains the following 2 towns and 8 townships:

Name Chinese Hanyu Pinyin Tibetan Wylie
Towns
Biru Town 比如镇 Bǐrú zhèn འབྲི་རུ་གྲོང་རྡལ། 'bri ru grong rdal
Shachu Town 夏曲镇 Xiàqǔ zhèn ཤག་ཆུ་གྲོང་རྡལ། shag chu grong rdal
Townships
Benkar Township 白嘎乡 Báigā xiāng བན་དཀར་ཤང་། ban dkar shang
Latang Township
(Dawatang) 		达塘乡 Dátáng xiāng ཟླ་ཐང་ཤང་། zla thang shang
Qagzê Township 恰则乡 Qiàzé xiāng ཆགས་རྩེ་ཤང་། chags rtse shang
Zala Township 扎拉乡 Zhālā xiāng རྩྭ་ལ་ཤང་། rtswa la shang
Yangshok Township 羊秀乡 Yángxiù xiāng གཡང་ཤོག་ཤང་། g.yang shog shang
Shamchu Township 香曲乡 Xiāngqǔ xiāng གཤམ་ཆུ་ཤང་། gsham chu shang
Lenchu Township 良曲乡 Liángqǔ xiāng རླན་ཆུ་ཤང་། rlan chu shang
Tsachu Township 茶曲乡 Cháqǔ xiāng ཚྭ་ཆུ་ཤང་། tshwa chu shang

Demographics

At the 2009 PRC census, the county's population was 60,179, of whom:

Name of group Number Percentage
Tibetans 59,824 99.21%
Han 313 0.69%
Bai 11 0.02%
Uyghurs 9 0.02%
Others 22 0.05%
  • Biru Town from southbank of Gyalmo Ngulchu
    Biru Town from southbank of Gyalmo Ngulchu
  • Biru Town from the hill to the north
    Biru Town from the hill to the north
  • Tsachu/Caqu village
    Tsachu/Caqu village
  • A meander of the river in Biru from the north bank
    A meander of the river in Biru from the north bank
  • Same meander of the river from the south bank
    Same meander of the river from the south bank
  • View of a meander from the top
    View of a meander from the top
  • Sepu Kangri
    Sepu Kangri
  • A monastery stupa in Biru
    A monastery stupa in Biru
  • The Biru Skull Wall, a local funerary practice
    The Biru Skull Wall, a local funerary practice

References

  1. ^ "那曲市第七次全国人口普查主要数据公报" (in Chinese). Statistics Bureau of Nagqu. 2021-07-09.[permanent dead link‍]
  2. ^ 中国气象数据网 – WeatherBk Data (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 27 September 2023.
  3. ^ 中国气象数据网 (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 27 September 2023.
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