# Mao County

Mao County or Maoxian (Chinese: 茂县; Tibetan: མའོ་རྫོང་།; Qiang: Shgvunyi) is a county in Ngawa Prefecture, Sichuan Province, China.
It has an area of 3,903 and a population of 106,700 as of 2006. 88.9% of the population are Qiang people. The county seat is Fengyi Town.

## Natural disasters

In 1933, an earthquake occurred near Diexi.
In 2017, a landslide occurred in Xinmo Village (新磨村), Diexi.

## Administrative divisions

Mao County has 11 towns.
| Name | Simplified Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | Qiang | Administrative division code |
| Towns |||||||
| Fengyi Town (Fünyi) | 凤仪镇 | Fèngyí Zhèn | ཧྥུན་ཡིས་གྲོང་རྡལ། | hphun yis grong rdal | | 513223100 |
| Nanxin Town (Nainxin) | 南新镇 | Nánxīn Zhèn | ནན་ཤིན་གྲོང་རྡལ། | nan shin grong rdal | | 513223101 |
| Diexi Town (Dêxi) | 叠溪镇 | Diéxī Zhèn | ཏེ་ཞི་གྲོང་རྡལ། | te zhi grong rdal | | 513223102 |
| Fushun Town (Foshung) | 富顺镇 | Fùshùn Zhèn | ཧྥོ་ཧྲུང་གྲོང་རྡལ། | hpho hrung grong rdal | | 513223105 |
| Tumen Town (Tumin) | 土门镇 | Tǔmén Zhèn | ཐུའུ་མིན་གྲོང་རྡལ། | thu'u min grong rdal | | 513223107 |
| Wadi Town (Wadü) | 洼底镇 | Wādǐ Zhèn | བ་ཏུས་གྲོང་རྡལ། | ba tus grong rdal | Vvuaji | 513223109 |
| Shaba Town | 沙坝镇 | Shābà Zhèn | | | Zhewa | 513223110 |
| Weimen Town (Wümoin) | 渭门镇 | Wèimén Zhèn | ཝུའེ་མོན་གྲོང་རྡལ། | wu'e mon grong rdal | | 513223111 |
| Heihu Town | 黑虎镇 | Hēihǔ Zhèn | ཧྭེ་ཧུའུ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | hwe hu'u grong rdal | | 513223112 |
| Goukou Town | 沟口镇 | Gōukǒu Zhèn | གུག་ཁུག་གྲོང་རྡལ། | gug khug grong rdal | | 513223113 |
| Chibusu Town | 赤不苏镇 | Chìbúsū Zhèn | ཁྲི་པུའུ་སུའུ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | khri pu'u su'u grong rdal | Shbuvs | 513223114 |

## Transport

* China National Highway 213

## Climate

Climate data for Maoxian, elevation 1,590 m (5,220 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) | 18.2 (64.8) | 26.3 (79.3) | 29.0 (84.2) | 28.3 (82.9) | 30.3 (86.5) | 29.7 (85.5) | 32.2 (90.0) | 31.6 (88.9) | 29.4 (84.9) | 25.6 (78.1) | 22.8 (73.0) | 20.4 (68.7) | 32.2 (90.0) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 5.9 (42.6) | 8.1 (46.6) | 12.4 (54.3) | 17.8 (64.0) | 21.0 (69.8) | 23.7 (74.7) | 25.8 (78.4) | 25.4 (77.7) | 21.4 (70.5) | 16.6 (61.9) | 12.6 (54.7) | 7.8 (46.0) | 16.5 (61.8) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 1.1 (34.0) | 3.3 (37.9) | 7.3 (45.1) | 12.2 (54.0) | 15.8 (60.4) | 18.7 (65.7) | 20.9 (69.6) | 20.5 (68.9) | 16.9 (62.4) | 12.2 (54.0) | 7.4 (45.3) | 2.5 (36.5) | 11.6 (52.8) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −2.4 (27.7) | 0.0 (32.0) | 3.6 (38.5) | 7.8 (46.0) | 11.4 (52.5) | 14.5 (58.1) | 16.7 (62.1) | 16.5 (61.7) | 13.7 (56.7) | 9.2 (48.6) | 3.6 (38.5) | −1.3 (29.7) | 7.8 (46.0) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −11.5 (11.3) | −10.4 (13.3) | −8.5 (16.7) | −0.7 (30.7) | 2.2 (36.0) | 7.0 (44.6) | 9.9 (49.8) | 7.8 (46.0) | 4.5 (40.1) | −0.9 (30.4) | −5.4 (22.3) | −10.4 (13.3) | −11.5 (11.3) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 3.2 (0.13) | 5.7 (0.22) | 22.6 (0.89) | 49.1 (1.93) | 67.6 (2.66) | 79.0 (3.11) | 70.0 (2.76) | 71.8 (2.83) | 52.6 (2.07) | 41.3 (1.63) | 9.8 (0.39) | 1.9 (0.07) | 474.6 (18.69) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 6.6 | 7.8 | 12.5 | 15.7 | 18.2 | 18.1 | 15.8 | 14.2 | 15.1 | 16.1 | 6.5 | 3.7 | 150.3 |
| Average snowy days | 14.9 | 11.1 | 4.1 | 0.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.4 | 7.9 | 39.7 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 68 | 70 | 71 | 71 | 73 | 77 | 77 | 77 | 80 | 80 | 76 | 70 | 74 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 133.2 | 114.2 | 128.2 | 149.1 | 148.2 | 123.7 | 144.3 | 150.4 | 92.9 | 92.3 | 125.5 | 134.7 | 1,536.7 |
| Percent possible sunshine | 42 | 36 | 34 | 38 | 35 | 29 | 34 | 37 | 25 | 26 | 40 | 43 | 35 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration ||||||||||||||