Dêngqên County

Dêngqên County
丁青县སྟེང་ཆེན་རྫོང་།
Location of Dêngqên County (red) in Chamdo City (yellow) and the Tibet A.R.
Location of Dêngqên County (red) in Chamdo City (yellow) and the Tibet A.R.
Dêngqên is located in Tibet
Dêngqên
Dêngqên
Location of the seat in the Tibet A.R.
Dêngqên is located in China
Dêngqên
Dêngqên
Dêngqên (China)
Coordinates: 31°24′51″N 95°35′50″E / 31.41417°N 95.59722°E / 31.41417; 95.59722
CountryChina
Autonomous regionTibet
Prefecture-level cityChamdo
County seatDêngqên
Area
 • Total12,368.49 km2 (4,775.50 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)[1]
 • Total98,677
 • Density8.0/km2 (21/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Websitedingqing.changdu.gov.cn
Dêngqên County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese丁青县
Traditional Chinese丁青縣
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinDīngqīng Xiàn
Tibetan name
Tibetanསྟེང་ཆེན་རྫོང་།
Transcriptions
Wyliesteng chen rdzong
Tibetan PinyinDêngqên Zong

Dêngqên County (Tibetan: སྟེང་ཆེན་རྫོང་།; Chinese: 丁青县) is a county of Chamdo City in the east of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.

Administrative divisions

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Dêngqên County is divided in 2 towns and 11 townships.

Name Chinese Hanyu Pinyin Tibetan Wylie
Towns
Dêngqên Town 丁青镇 Dīngqīng zhèn སྟེང་ཆེན་གྲོང་རྡལ། steng chen grong rdal
Trido Town 尺犊镇 Chǐdú zhèn ཁྲི་རྡོ་གྲོང་རྡལ། khri rdo grong rdal
Townships
Gyangngön Township 觉恩乡 Jué'ēn xiāng གྱང་སྔོན་ཤང་། gyang sngon shang
Sagang Township 沙贡乡 Shāgòng xiāng ས་སྒང་ཤང་། sa sgang shang
Damdoi Township 当堆乡 Dāngduī xiāng གཏམ་སྟོད་ཤང་། gtam stod shang
Sado Township 桑多乡 Sāngduō xiāng ས་མདོ་ཤང་། sa mdo shang
Muta Township 木塔乡 Mùtǎ xiāng དམུ་ཐ་ཤང་། dmu tha shang
Bota Township 布塔乡 Bùtǎ xiāng འབོ་ཐ་ཤང་། 'bo tha shang
Pada Township 巴达乡 Bādá xiāng སྤ་ཟླ་ཤང་། spa zla shang
Gangé Township 甘岩乡 Gānyán xiāng གྭ་ངད་ཤང་། gwa ngad shang
Gata Township 嘎塔乡 Gātǎ xiāng གྭ་ཐ་ཤང་། gwa tha shang
Sertsa Township 色扎乡 Sèzhā xiāng སེར་ཚ་ཤང་། ser tsha shang
Zhezhung Township 协雄乡 Xiéxióng xiāng ཞེ་གཞུང་ཤང་། zhe gzhung shang

Transport

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Climate

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Climate data for Dêngqên, elevation 3,873 m (12,707 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) 16.6
(61.9)
15.4
(59.7)
20.2
(68.4)
20.4
(68.7)
23.5
(74.3)
26.3
(79.3)
26.7
(80.1)
26.7
(80.1)
24.4
(75.9)
21.8
(71.2)
15.9
(60.6)
14.8
(58.6)
26.7
(80.1)
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) 2.3
(36.1)
4.3
(39.7)
7.2
(45.0)
11.1
(52.0)
15.2
(59.4)
18.3
(64.9)
19.7
(67.5)
19.5
(67.1)
17.3
(63.1)
11.7
(53.1)
6.8
(44.2)
3.6
(38.5)
11.4
(52.6)
Daily mean °C (°F) −5.7
(21.7)
−3.2
(26.2)
0.0
(32.0)
3.8
(38.8)
7.9
(46.2)
11.3
(52.3)
12.8
(55.0)
12.4
(54.3)
9.9
(49.8)
4.4
(39.9)
−1.1
(30.0)
−4.8
(23.4)
4.0
(39.1)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) −12.0
(10.4)
−9.2
(15.4)
−5.4
(22.3)
−1.7
(28.9)
2.2
(36.0)
6.1
(43.0)
7.7
(45.9)
7.4
(45.3)
5.0
(41.0)
−0.3
(31.5)
−6.6
(20.1)
−11.1
(12.0)
−1.5
(29.3)
Record low °C (°F) −22.1
(−7.8)
−21.0
(−5.8)
−17.1
(1.2)
−9.1
(15.6)
−6.3
(20.7)
−1.3
(29.7)
0.2
(32.4)
−1.3
(29.7)
−2.7
(27.1)
−8.8
(16.2)
−18.1
(−0.6)
−23.4
(−10.1)
−23.4
(−10.1)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 3.9
(0.15)
7.4
(0.29)
18.1
(0.71)
31.2
(1.23)
60.4
(2.38)
120.4
(4.74)
134.6
(5.30)
119.2
(4.69)
102.1
(4.02)
50.8
(2.00)
12.1
(0.48)
3.5
(0.14)
663.7
(26.13)
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) 4.1 7.3 10.7 13.1 17.1 21.5 21.8 19.8 19.4 14.2 5.5 3.5 158
Average snowy days 7.7 11.0 15.3 17.4 7.5 1.1 0.1 0.1 1.0 11.8 7.9 5.0 85.9
Average relative humidity (%) 44 46 51 54 58 65 68 67 69 66 54 47 57
Mean monthly sunshine hours 209.8 188.3 207.0 212.0 223.7 188.7 190.9 193.8 198.2 208.9 223.9 229.4 2,474.6
Percent possible sunshine 65 60 55 54 52 44 44 48 54 60 72 73 57
Source: China Meteorological Administration[2][3]
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References

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  1. ^ "昌都市第七次全国人口普查主要数据公报" (in Chinese). Government of Chamdo. 2021-06-22.
  2. ^ 中国气象数据网 – WeatherBk Data (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 27 August 2023.
  3. ^ 中国气象数据网 (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 27 August 2023.