# Mainling

Mainling (Tibetan: སྨན་གླིང་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།; Chinese: 米林市; pinyin: Mǐlín; ), formerly Mainling County, is a county-level city under the jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city of Nyingchi in eastern Tibet Autonomous Region, China.

## Geography

Mainling is located in the central-west of the Nyingtri Prefecture, at the middle reaches of the Yarlung Tsangpo River, and between the Nyenchen Tanglha Mountains and the Himalayan Mountains. It de jure covers an area of 9,490 square kilometres, including the area claimed but de facto under control of the Arunachal Pradesh, India. The average altitude is 3,700 metres above sea level.

## Climate

Climate data for Mainling, elevation 2,950 m (9,680 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) | 19.1 (66.4) | 19.4 (66.9) | 22.3 (72.1) | 24.1 (75.4) | 25.8 (78.4) | 27.9 (82.2) | 29.7 (85.5) | 27.8 (82.0) | 27.9 (82.2) | 24.6 (76.3) | 19.1 (66.4) | 16.7 (62.1) | 29.7 (85.5) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 8.1 (46.6) | 9.5 (49.1) | 12.3 (54.1) | 15.6 (60.1) | 18.4 (65.1) | 21.0 (69.8) | 22.3 (72.1) | 22.3 (72.1) | 20.5 (68.9) | 16.7 (62.1) | 13.4 (56.1) | 9.9 (49.8) | 15.8 (60.5) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 0.5 (32.9) | 2.6 (36.7) | 5.6 (42.1) | 8.6 (47.5) | 11.7 (53.1) | 15.1 (59.2) | 16.3 (61.3) | 16.1 (61.0) | 14.3 (57.7) | 10.1 (50.2) | 5.3 (41.5) | 1.6 (34.9) | 9.0 (48.2) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −4.9 (23.2) | −2.1 (28.2) | 1.1 (34.0) | 4.0 (39.2) | 7.3 (45.1) | 11.2 (52.2) | 12.5 (54.5) | 12.1 (53.8) | 10.5 (50.9) | 5.9 (42.6) | −0.3 (31.5) | −4.2 (24.4) | 4.4 (40.0) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −15.8 (3.6) | −12.1 (10.2) | −9.4 (15.1) | −6.0 (21.2) | −2.4 (27.7) | 2.1 (35.8) | 6.1 (43.0) | 4.4 (39.9) | 0.5 (32.9) | −6.9 (19.6) | −10.0 (14.0) | −14.5 (5.9) | −15.8 (3.6) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 4.8 (0.19) | 10.9 (0.43) | 31.4 (1.24) | 57.0 (2.24) | 85.7 (3.37) | 121.0 (4.76) | 143.4 (5.65) | 116.4 (4.58) | 84.5 (3.33) | 39.1 (1.54) | 4.6 (0.18) | 2.6 (0.10) | 701.4 (27.61) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 4.8 | 8.3 | 14.8 | 19.4 | 21.3 | 23.3 | 24.1 | 22.3 | 19.8 | 14.8 | 4.1 | 2.4 | 179.4 |
| Average snowy days | 11.0 | 13.4 | 7.9 | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 1.9 | 6.6 | 41.9 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 60 | 63 | 66 | 69 | 71 | 75 | 77 | 75 | 76 | 70 | 62 | 60 | 69 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 159.4 | 126.8 | 134.8 | 133.5 | 130.5 | 104.4 | 114.3 | 124.9 | 113.3 | 138.9 | 168.3 | 178.8 | 1,627.9 |
| Percentage possible sunshine | 49 | 40 | 36 | 34 | 31 | 25 | 27 | 31 | 31 | 40 | 53 | 56 | 38 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration ||||||||||||||

## Economy

The mine resources of the city are gold dust, plaster, limestone, chromium and iron, etc.
The main economy style in Mainling is farming and forest industry. The main species of the trees are fir, spruce, pine, oak, and cypress, etc. The total cumulation volume of woods is 40 million cubic metres. The special fruit productions are apples, apple pears, walnuts and peaches.
Nyingchi Mainling Airport is located in Mainling.

## Demography

In 1999 the city had a population of 17347 inhabitants.
The city is home to the Lhoba people.

## Administrative divisions

Mainling contains 3 towns, 4 townships, and 1 ethnic township.
| Name | Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie |
| Towns |||||
| Mainling Town | 米林镇 | ‹See RfD› Mǐlín zhèn | སྨན་གླིང་གྲོང་རྡལ། | ‹See RfD› sman gling grong rdal |
| Pé Town | 派镇 | ‹See RfD› Pài zhèn | ཕད་གྲོང་རྡལ། | ‹See RfD› phad grong rdal |
| Orong Town | 卧龙镇 | ‹See RfD› Wòlóng zhèn | ཨོ་རོང་གྲོང་རྡལ། | ‹See RfD› o rong grong rdal |
| Townships |||||
| Tamnyen Township | 丹娘乡 | ‹See RfD› Dānniáng xiāng | གཏམ་སྙན་ཤང་། | ‹See RfD› gtan snyan shang |
| Tashi Rabten Township | 扎西绕登乡 | ‹See RfD› Zhāxīràodēng xiāng | བཀྲིས་རབ་བརྟན་ཤང་། | ‹See RfD› bkra shis rab brtan shang |
| Nelung Township | 里龙乡 | ‹See RfD› Lǐlóng xiāng | གནས་ལུང་ཤང་། | ‹See RfD› gnas lung shang |
| Chanak Township | 羌纳乡 | ‹See RfD› Qiāngnà xiāng | ཆ་ནག་ཤང་། | ‹See RfD› chu nag shang |
| Ethnic township |||||
| Naiyü Lhoba Ethnic Township | 南伊珞巴族乡 | ‹See RfD› Nányī Luòbāzú xiāng | གནས་ཡུལ་ལྷོ་པ་མི་རིགས་ཤང་། | ‹See RfD› gnas yul lho pa mi rigs shang |
| * includes areas claimed but currently under control of the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. |||||

### Villages

* Zhongsa Village (Danniang Township)