# Li County, Sichuan

Li County or Lixian (Chinese: 理县; Tibetan: ལིས་རྫོང་།; Qiang: pauɕuq), formerly known as Lifan (理番), is a county in Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, China. China National Highway G317 and the Zhaxiling River run through the whole territory.
On May 12, 2008, the area was affected by the 2008 Sichuan earthquake.

## Geography

Li County is located from 30°54′43″N 102°32′46″E﻿ / ﻿30.91194°N 102.54611°E﻿ / 30.91194; 102.54611 (30.911944°, 102.546111°) to 31°12′12″N 103°30′30″E﻿ / ﻿31.20333°N 103.50833°E﻿ / 31.20333; 103.50833 (31.203333°, 103.508333°).

## Climate

Climate data for Lixian, elevation 1,897 m (6,224 ft), (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–2010) :
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 20.9 (69.6) | 30.4 (86.7) | 31.7 (89.1) | 32.0 (89.6) | 33.4 (92.1) | 34.6 (94.3) | 35.8 (96.4) | 34.4 (93.9) | 33.6 (92.5) | 27.6 (81.7) | 24.4 (75.9) | 19.5 (67.1) | 35.8 (96.4) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 6.8 (44.2) | 10.8 (51.4) | 15.4 (59.7) | 20.6 (69.1) | 23.1 (73.6) | 24.8 (76.6) | 27.3 (81.1) | 27.5 (81.5) | 23.2 (73.8) | 18.2 (64.8) | 13.4 (56.1) | 8.1 (46.6) | 18.3 (64.9) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 1.0 (33.8) | 3.9 (39.0) | 8.1 (46.6) | 12.7 (54.9) | 15.8 (60.4) | 18.2 (64.8) | 20.6 (69.1) | 20.6 (69.1) | 17.1 (62.8) | 12.3 (54.1) | 7.2 (45.0) | 2.2 (36.0) | 11.6 (53.0) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −3.1 (26.4) | −0.5 (31.1) | 3.3 (37.9) | 7.4 (45.3) | 10.8 (51.4) | 13.9 (57.0) | 16.1 (61.0) | 16.1 (61.0) | 13.3 (55.9) | 8.7 (47.7) | 3.2 (37.8) | −1.8 (28.8) | 7.3 (45.1) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −11.0 (12.2) | −10.9 (12.4) | −7.9 (17.8) | −0.5 (31.1) | 3.2 (37.8) | 7.2 (45.0) | 9.3 (48.7) | 7.4 (45.3) | 5.2 (41.4) | −0.2 (31.6) | −5.3 (22.5) | −12.1 (10.2) | −12.1 (10.2) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 7.5 (0.30) | 12.4 (0.49) | 34.1 (1.34) | 62.2 (2.45) | 96.8 (3.81) | 108.1 (4.26) | 76.2 (3.00) | 68.8 (2.71) | 78.3 (3.08) | 63.2 (2.49) | 15.2 (0.60) | 4.1 (0.16) | 626.9 (24.69) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 6.8 | 8.3 | 13.0 | 16.9 | 19.6 | 21.0 | 17.0 | 15.0 | 16.8 | 16.4 | 7.3 | 3.9 | 162 |
| Average snowy days | 12.2 | 11.1 | 6.3 | 0.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2.1 | 7.1 | 39.1 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 62 | 61 | 62 | 63 | 67 | 73 | 72 | 69 | 73 | 73 | 69 | 64 | 67 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 80.7 | 130.5 | 162.7 | 174.8 | 170.9 | 136.8 | 158.3 | 164.5 | 128.8 | 121.7 | 87.2 | 67.7 | 1,584.6 |
| Percent possible sunshine | 25 | 41 | 44 | 45 | 40 | 32 | 37 | 40 | 35 | 35 | 28 | 22 | 35 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration ||||||||||||||

## Administrative divisions

Li County oversees 6 towns and 5 townships.The county government is seated in the town of Zhaxiling.
| Name | Simplified Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | Qiang | Administrative division code |
| Towns |||||||
| Zhaxiling Town (Zagunao) | 杂谷脑镇 | Zágǔnǎo Zhèn | བཀྲ་ཤིས་གླིང་གྲོང་རྡལ། | bkra shis gling grong rdal | Bawxiaen | 513222100 |
| Nyaglo Town (Miyaluo) | 米亚罗镇 | Mǐyàluó Zhèn | མྱག་ལོ་ཀྲེན། | myag lo kren | Miyalo | 513222101 |
| Gubrago Town (Gu'ergou) | 古尔沟镇 | Gǔ'ěrgōu Zhèn | ཀུབ་ར་མགོ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | kub ra mgo grong rdal | Guergeu | 513222102 |
| Xuecheng Town (Xüchêng) | 薛城镇 | Xuēchéng Zhèn | ཞུའེ་ཁྲེང་ཀྲེན་། | zhuve khreng kren | | 513222103 |
| Taoping Town | 桃坪镇 | Táopíng Zhèn | ཐའོ་ཕིང་གྲོང་རྡལ། | thavo phing grong rdal | Saqi | 513222104 |
| Putou Town (Püdü) | 朴头镇 | Pǔtóu Zhèn | ཕུའི་འཏུའི་གྲོང་རྡལ། | phuvi vtuvi grong rdal | | 513222105 |
| Townships |||||||
| Ganbao Township (Gainpu) | 甘堡乡 | Gānbǎo Xiāng | ཀམ་ཕུ་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | kam phu yul tsho | | 513222202 |
| Puxi Township (Puqi) | 蒲溪乡 | Púxī Xiāng | ཕུའུ་ཆི་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | phuvu chi yul tsho | | 513222203 |
| Bodogxugo Township (Shangmeng) | 上孟乡 | Shàngmèng Xiāng | འབོ་ཏོག་ཤུ་ཀོ་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | vbo tog shu ko yul tsho | | 513222204 |
| Bodogxudo Township (Xiameng) | 下孟乡 | Xiàmèng Xiāng | འབོ་ཏོག་ཤུ་ཏོ་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | vbo tog shu to yul tsho | | 513222205 |
| Tonghua Township | 通化乡 | Tōnghuà Xiāng | ཐོང་ཧྭ་ཞང་། | thong hwa zhang | | 513222207 |

## Demographics

As of 2018, Li County had a registered population of 43,375. 11,706 of the county's population, or 27%, is urbanized.
The county had a population of 42,494 in 1999.

### Ethnic groups

Li County Ethnic Composition (2018) :
| Ethnicity | Population | Percentage |
| Tibetan | 23,175 | 53.43% |
| Qiang | 14,531 | 33.50% |
| Han | 5,405 | 12.46% |
| Hui | 179 | 0.41% |
| Other | 85 | 0.20% |

## Transport

* China National Highway 317