Delhi City

Not to be confused with Delhi.

Delhi (Delingha) (Chinese: 德令哈; pinyin: Delingha; SASM/GNC/SRC romanization of Mongolian: Delhi hot; Tibetan: གཏེར་ལེན་ཁ།, Wylie: gter-len-kha, ZYPY: Dêrlênka) is the capital of Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai, China. It is located approximately 200 km southeast of the Da Qaidam Administrative Region. It is a mainly industrial county-level city. The Ba'yin River divides the city into two counties: Hedong (河东, lit. "River East") and Hexi (河西, lit. "River West"). Because the Prefecture seat is located in Hedong, it is slightly more flourishing than Hexi, which is chiefly agricultural.^[1]

Geography

Climate

Delingha has a cold arid climate (Köppen BWk), that borders on a semi-arid climate BSk.

Climate data for Delingha
Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Year
Average high °C (°F)	−3 (27)		7 (45)	13 (55)	17 (63)	20 (68)	23 (73)	23 (73)	18 (64)	11 (52)	3 (37)	−1.1 (30.0)	10
Daily mean °C (°F)	−11 (12)	−7 (19)		5 (41)	10 (50)	13 (55)	16 (61)	16 (61)	11 (52)	4 (39)	−3 (27)	−9 (16)	3
Average low °C (°F)	−19 (−2)	−15 (5)	−8 (18)	−2 (28)	3 (37)	7 (45)	9 (48)	9 (48)	3 (37)	−3 (27)	−10 (14)	−17 (1)	−3
Precipitation mm (inches)	3 (0.12)	3 (0.12)	3 (0.12)	7 (0.28)	21 (0.83)	34 (1.34)	33 (1.3)	24 (0.94)	15 (0.59)	6 (0.24)	1 (0.04)	2 (0.08)	150 (5.91)
Source: Weatherbase[2]

Transportation

The Delingha Railway Station serves this city.

Missile headquarters

Delingha is the missile headquarters for Qinghai, and houses DF-4s with four associated launch sites. Delingha is one of five locations where anywhere between 10 and 20 DF-4s were deployed in 1998.^[3]

The facility is the headquarters for one of the launch brigades.

References

1. ^ "德令哈市". http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/德令哈市. Retrieved 2010-07-22. 
2. ^ "Weatherbase: Historical Weather for Delingha, China". Weatherbase. 2009. http://www.weatherbase.com/weather/weatherall.php3?s=527370&refer=&units=metric. 
3. ^ Dekhang, Tsultrim (1998-10-09). "Nuclear Weapons on the Tibetan Plateau". The Government of Tibet in Exile. http://www.tibet.com/Eco/Green98/chap6.html. Retrieved 2009-03-09. ^{[dead link]}

Coordinates: 37°23′N 97°23′E / 37.383°N 97.383°E / 37.383; 97.383