Qitai County
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Qitai County
Coordinates: 44°01′N 89°35′E / 44.017°N 89.583°E
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The Qitai County (simplified Chinese: 奇台县; traditional Chinese: 奇台縣; pinyin: Qitai Xian; Uyghur: گۇچۇڭ ناھىيىسى, ULY: Guchung Nahiyisi, UPNY: Guqung Nah̡iyisi?), also known as Gucheng (古城), is a county in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China and is under the administration of the Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture. It contains an area of 16,641 km2. According to the 2002 census, it has a population of 230,000. The town which acts as the administrative centre of the county is also called Qitai.
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Climate
| Climate data for Qitai | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Average high °C (°F) | −9 (15) |
−6 (21) |
3 (37) |
16 (60) |
24 (75) |
28 (82) |
30 (86) |
30 (86) |
24 (75) |
14 (57) |
2 (35) |
−6 (21) |
12.3 (54.2) |
| Average low °C (°F) | −23 (−9) |
−21 (−5) |
−9 (15) |
2 (35) |
8 (46) |
13 (55) |
15 (59) |
14 (57) |
8 (46) |
0 (32) |
−9 (15) |
−19 (−2) |
−1.9 (28.7) |
| Precipitation mm (inches) | 5 (0.2) |
5 (0.2) |
10 (0.4) |
20 (0.8) |
18 (0.7) |
25 (1) |
23 (0.9) |
18 (0.7) |
20 (0.8) |
15 (0.6) |
10 (0.4) |
8 (0.3) |
178 (7) |
| Source: Weatherbase [1] | |||||||||||||
History
Located on one of the main routes of the Silk Road, the old Gucheng (often referred in the European writing of the past as "Ku Ch'eng-tze" etc., using Wade-Giles or Postal Romanization systems), was the western terminal for one of the caravan routes across the Gobi Desert. Owen Lattimore in The Desert Road to Turkestan leaves an account of his travel along this route in 1926-27.[2]
"Under the special circumstances of the caravan trade, camel traffic usually overshoots Hami [“the most easterly point on the arterial cart roads of Chinese Turkestan”], going on all the way to Ku Ch’eng-tze. This is partly because the pastures near Ku Ch’eng-tze are more adequate to caravan needs, but still more because, transport being cheaper by camel than by cart, it is to the advantage of merchants to have their goods carried as far as possible by caravan."[3]
Footnotes
- ^ "Weatherbase: Historical Weather for Qitai, China". Weatherbase. 2011. http://www.weatherbase.com/weather/weather.php3?s=513790&refer=wikipedia. Retrieved on November 24, 2011.
- ^ Lattimore (1929), pp. 52, 250.
- ^ Lattimore (1929), p. 250.
References
- Lattimore, Owen (1929). The Desert Road to Turkestan. Owen Lattimore. Boston, Little, Brown, and Company. Reprinted with new introduction, 1972, AMS Press, New York, N.Y.
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