Dêgê County
Dêgê County 德格县 · སྡེ་དགེ་རྫོང་། Derge, Dege | |
|---|---|
 | |
 Location of Dêgê County (red) within Garzê Prefecture (yellow) and Sichuan province | |
  Dêgê Location of the seat in Sichuan  Dêgê Dêgê (China) | |
| Coordinates: 31°48′22″N 98°34′51″E / 31.8061°N 98.5809°E | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Sichuan |
| Autonomous prefecture | Garzê |
| County seat | Goinqên (Derge) |
| Area | |
• Total | 11,025 km2 (4,257 sq mi) |
| Population (2020)[1] | |
• Total | 88,542 |
| • Density | 8.0/km2 (21/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Website | www |
| Dêgê County | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chinese name | |||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 德格县 | ||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 德格縣 | ||||||||
| |||||||||
| Tibetan name | |||||||||
| Tibetan | སྡེ་དགེ་རྫོང་། | ||||||||
| |||||||||
Dêgê County (Tibetan: སྡེ་དགེ་རྫོང་།; Chinese: 德格县) is a county in southern China, which was formerly one of the Kham region's five independent kingdoms - the Kingdom of Derge - but is now administered as a county in Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in far northwestern Sichuan, China, bordering the Tibet Autonomous Region to the west. Its county seat is the town of Derge.
Administrative divisions
Dêgê County is divided into 10 towns and 13 townships:
| Name | Simplified Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | Administrative division code | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Towns | ||||||
| Goinqên Town (Gengqing, Derge) |
更庆镇 | Gēngqìng Zhèn | དགོན་ཆེན་ཀྲེན། | dgon chen kren | 513330100 | |
| Manikaingo Town (Manigango) |
马尼干戈镇 | Mǎnígāngē Zhèn | མ་ཎི་གན་འགོ་ཀྲེན། | ma ṇi gan 'go kren | 513330101 | |
| Zogqên Town (Zhuqing) |
竹庆镇 | Zhúqìng Zhèn | རྫོགས་ཆེན་ཀྲེན། | rdzogs chen kren | 513330102 | |
| Aqug Town (Axu) |
阿须镇 | Āxū Zhèn | ཨ་ཕྱུག་ཀྲེན། | a phyug kren | 513330103 | |
| Chowa Town (Cuo'a) |
错阿镇 | Cuò'ā Zhèn | ཁྲོ་བ་ཀྲེན། | khro ba kren | 513330105 | |
| Mainxor Town (Maixiu) |
麦宿镇 | Màixiǔ Zhèn | སྨན་ཤོར་གྲོང་རྡལ། | sman shor grong rdal | 513330106 | |
| Daggoin Town (Dagun) |
打滚镇 | Dǎgǔn Zhèn | སྟག་དགོན་གྲོང་རྡལ། | stag dgon grong rdal | 513330107 | |
| Jagra Town (Gongya) |
龚垭镇 | Gōngyā Zhèn | ལྕགས་ར་གྲོང་རྡལ། | lcags ra grong rdal | 513330108 | |
| Wointog Town (Wentuo) |
温拖镇 | Wēntuō Zhèn | དབོན་ཐོག་གྲོང་རྡལ། | dbon thog grong rdal | 513330109 | |
| Zawarma Town (Zhongzhake) |
中扎科镇 | Zhōngzhākē Zhèn | རྫ་བར་མ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | rdza bar ma grong rdal | 513330110 | |
| Townships | ||||||
| Hyoba Township (Yueba, Yoba) |
岳巴乡 | Yuèbā Xiāng | ཧྱོ་པ་ཤང་། | hyo pa shang | 513330202 | |
| Palpung Township (Waibung, Babang) |
八帮乡 | Bābāng Xiāng | དབལ་སྤུངས་ཤང་། | dbal spungs shang | 513330203 | |
| Bêwar Township (Baiya) |
白垭乡 | Báiyā Xiāng | དཔེ་ཝར་ཤང་། | dpe war shang | 513330205 | |
| Woinbodoi Township (Wangbuding) |
汪布顶乡 | Wāngbùdǐng Xiāng | དབོན་པོ་སྟོད་ཤང་། | dbon po stod shang | 513330206 | |
| Korlodo Township (Keluodong) |
柯洛洞乡 | Kēluòdòng Xiāng | འཁོར་ལོ་མདོ་ཤང་། | 'khor lo mdo shang | 513330207 | |
| Karsumdo Township (Kasongdu) |
卡松渡乡 | Kǎsōngdù Xiāng | མཁར་སུམ་མདོ་ཤང་། | mkhar sum mdo shang | 513330208 | |
| Goloin Township (Enan) |
俄南乡 | Énán Xiāng | མགོ་ལོན་ཤང་། | mgo lon shang | 513330209 | |
| Gusi Township (Gosu, Ezhi) |
俄支乡 | Ézhī Xiāng | འགུ་ཟི་ཤང་། | 'gu zi shang | 513330211 | |
| Yilhung Township (Yulong) |
玉隆乡 | Yùlóng Xiāng | ཡིད་ལྷུང་ཤང་། | yid lhung shang | 513330213 | |
| Ragor Township (Rangu) |
然姑乡 | Rángū Xiāng | ར་སྐོར་གོང་མ། | ra skor gong ma | 513330216 | |
| Nyagug Township (Niangu) |
年古乡 | Niángǔ Xiāng | ཉ་འགུག་ཤང་། | nya 'gug shang | 513330219 | |
| Lamdo Township (Langduo) |
浪多乡 | Làngduō Xiāng | ལམ་མདོ་ཤང་། | lam mdo shang | 513330220 | |
| Yarting Township (Yadêng, Yading) |
亚丁乡 | Yàdīng Xiāng | ཡར་དིང་ཤང་། | yar ding shang | 513330223 | |
Transport
Climate
| Climate data for Dêgê, elevation 3,184 m (10,446 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) | 22.6 (72.7) |
21.6 (70.9) |
25.6 (78.1) |
27.3 (81.1) |
28.5 (83.3) |
32.2 (90.0) |
31.4 (88.5) |
30.3 (86.5) |
29.8 (85.6) |
26.4 (79.5) |
22.4 (72.3) |
19.7 (67.5) |
32.2 (90.0) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 7.8 (46.0) |
10.0 (50.0) |
12.6 (54.7) |
15.9 (60.6) |
19.5 (67.1) |
21.8 (71.2) |
23.1 (73.6) |
23.0 (73.4) |
20.6 (69.1) |
16.2 (61.2) |
12.2 (54.0) |
8.5 (47.3) |
15.9 (60.7) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −1.8 (28.8) |
1.0 (33.8) |
4.2 (39.6) |
7.6 (45.7) |
11.1 (52.0) |
13.8 (56.8) |
15.0 (59.0) |
14.5 (58.1) |
12.1 (53.8) |
7.4 (45.3) |
2.3 (36.1) |
−1.6 (29.1) |
7.1 (44.8) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −8.5 (16.7) |
−5.7 (21.7) |
−2.2 (28.0) |
1.3 (34.3) |
5.0 (41.0) |
8.6 (47.5) |
9.9 (49.8) |
9.4 (48.9) |
7.2 (45.0) |
2.0 (35.6) |
−4.0 (24.8) |
−8.1 (17.4) |
1.2 (34.2) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −19.5 (−3.1) |
−15.5 (4.1) |
−13.1 (8.4) |
−9.3 (15.3) |
−5.2 (22.6) |
0.1 (32.2) |
2.6 (36.7) |
0.2 (32.4) |
−1.8 (28.8) |
−7.4 (18.7) |
−14.0 (6.8) |
−20.2 (−4.4) |
−20.2 (−4.4) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 1.8 (0.07) |
4.2 (0.17) |
13.2 (0.52) |
28.5 (1.12) |
60.6 (2.39) |
134.3 (5.29) |
135.8 (5.35) |
116.6 (4.59) |
107.0 (4.21) |
37.2 (1.46) |
6.2 (0.24) |
1.6 (0.06) |
647 (25.47) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 2.1 | 4.1 | 8.4 | 12.8 | 18.0 | 21.8 | 20.0 | 17.8 | 18.7 | 12.6 | 3.6 | 2.0 | 141.9 |
| Average snowy days | 4.2 | 7.7 | 10.6 | 5.0 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0 | 0.1 | 2.9 | 4.6 | 3.5 | 39.3 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 33 | 35 | 41 | 49 | 55 | 66 | 69 | 69 | 71 | 63 | 45 | 37 | 53 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 122.6 | 117.8 | 135.5 | 140.4 | 146.9 | 136.1 | 150.1 | 147.7 | 141.0 | 140.7 | 140.5 | 135.7 | 1,655 |
| Percent possible sunshine | 38 | 37 | 36 | 36 | 34 | 32 | 35 | 36 | 39 | 40 | 45 | 44 | 38 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration[2][3] | |||||||||||||
References
- ^ "甘孜州第七次全国人口普查公报（第二号）" (in Chinese). Government of Garzê Prefecture. 2021-06-04.
- ^ 中国气象数据网 – WeatherBk Data (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 13 April 2023.
- ^ 中国气象数据网 (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 13 April 2023.
External links
| County-level divisions |   | |
|---|---|---|
| Towns and villages |
| |
| Geography | ||
| Landmarks | ||
| Sciences | ||
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
