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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

References

  1. ^ "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.
  2. ^ 中国气象数据网 – WeatherBk Data (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 13 April 2023.
  3. ^ 中国气象数据网 (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 13 April 2023.
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