Danba County
County in Sichuan, China
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Rongzhag (Tibetan: རོང་བྲག, ZWPY: Rongzhag Zong), also Danba (Chinese: 丹巴; pinyin: Dānbā) is a county of the eastern Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in western Sichuan Province, China. The county seat is the town of Chaggo.
Danba County
丹巴县 · རོང་བྲག་རྫོང་། Rongzhag | |
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The county seat | |
.png) Location of Danba County (red) within Garzê Prefecture (yellow) and Sichuan. | |
  Danba Location of the seat in Sichuan  Danba Danba (China) | |
| Coordinates: 30°57′N 101°51′E | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Sichuan |
| Autonomous prefecture | Garzê |
| Township-level divisions | 1 town 14 townships |
| County seat | Chaggo |
| Area | |
• Total | 4,656 km2 (1,798 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 1,799 m (5,902 ft) |
| Population (2020)[1] | |
• Total | 49,872 |
| • Density | 10.71/km2 (27.74/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Danba County | |||||||
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| Chinese name | |||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 丹巴县 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 丹巴縣 | ||||||
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| Tibetan name | |||||||
| Tibetan | རོང་བྲག་རྫོང་། | ||||||
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Governance
Law enforcement in the county is provided by the Danba County Public Security Bureau. It contains one traffic police unit and a police post in Gya'gyü Town.[2][3]
The People's Armed Police Danba County Company provides paramilitary law enforcement and disaster relief in the county.[4]
Firefighting and rescue duties in the county are provided by the Danba County Fire and Rescue Battalion.[5]
Administrative divisions
Rongzhag County is divided into 9 towns and 2 townships:
| Name | Simplified Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | Administrative division code | |
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| Towns | ||||||
| Chaggo Town (Zhaggo, Zhanggu) |
章谷镇 | Zhānggǔ Zhèn | བྲག་འགོ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | brag 'go grong rdal | 513323100 | |
| Trateng Town (Chagdêng, Pagdêng, Badi) |
巴底镇 | Bādǐ Zhèn | བྲག་སྟེང་གྲོང་རྡལ། | brag steng grong rdal | 513323101 | |
| Geshitsa Town (Gêxêcha, Geshizha, Geshiza) |
革什扎镇 | Géshízhā Zhèn | དགེ་བཤེས་གྲྭ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | dge bshes grwa grong rdal | 513323102 | |
| Donggu Town | 东谷镇 | Dōnggǔ Zhèn | སྟོང་དགུ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | stong dgu grong rdal | 513323103 | |
| Mudori Town (Mo'erduo) |
墨尔多山镇 | Mò'ěrduōshān Zhèn | དམུ་རྡོ་རི་གྲོང་རྡལ། | dmu rdo ri grong rdal | 513323104 | |
| Gya'gyü Town (Jiaju) |
甲居镇 | Jiǎjū Zhèn | བརྒྱ་བརྒྱུད་གྲོང་རྡལ། | brgya brgyud grong rdal | 513323105 | |
| Guzong Town (Gêxê, Gezong) |
格宗镇 | Gézōng Zhèn | དགུ་རྫོང་གྲོང་རྡལ། | dgu rdzong grong rdal | 513323106 | |
| Golung Town (Banshanmen) |
半扇门镇 | Bànshànmén Zhèn | སྒོ་ལུང་གྲོང་རྡལ། | sgo lung grong rdal | 513323107 | |
| Dando Town (Dandong) |
丹东镇 | Dāndōng Zhèn | མདའ་མདོ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | mda' mdo grong rdal | 513323108 | |
| Townships | ||||||
| Bawang Township | 巴旺乡 | Bāwàng Xiāng | དཔའ་དབང་ཤང་། | dpa' dbang shang | 513323201 | |
| Sogbo Township (Suopo) |
梭坡乡 | Suōpō Xiāng | སོག་པོ་ཤང་། | sog po shang | 513323209 | |
| Qugsug Township (Taipingqiao) |
太平桥乡 | Tàipíngqiáo Xiāng | ཕྱུག་ཟུག་ཤང་། | phyug zug shang | 513323213 | |
National Priority Protected Sites
Danba County is home to two National Priority Protected Sites:
Climate
| Climate data for Danba, elevation 1,950 m (6,400 ft), (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–present) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 23.2 (73.8) |
28.8 (83.8) |
33.5 (92.3) |
36.5 (97.7) |
36.8 (98.2) |
37.2 (99.0) |
37.7 (99.9) |
39.0 (102.2) |
35.4 (95.7) |
32.2 (90.0) |
25.3 (77.5) |
19.2 (66.6) |
39.0 (102.2) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 11.5 (52.7) |
15.6 (60.1) |
20.2 (68.4) |
24.3 (75.7) |
26.5 (79.7) |
27.3 (81.1) |
29.1 (84.4) |
29.5 (85.1) |
25.8 (78.4) |
21.2 (70.2) |
17.0 (62.6) |
11.9 (53.4) |
21.7 (71.0) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 4.8 (40.6) |
8.2 (46.8) |
12.3 (54.1) |
16.1 (61.0) |
18.7 (65.7) |
20.2 (68.4) |
21.9 (71.4) |
22.2 (72.0) |
19.1 (66.4) |
14.8 (58.6) |
9.8 (49.6) |
5.3 (41.5) |
14.5 (58.0) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −0.9 (30.4) |
2.2 (36.0) |
6.3 (43.3) |
9.9 (49.8) |
12.9 (55.2) |
15.3 (59.5) |
17.1 (62.8) |
17.2 (63.0) |
14.6 (58.3) |
10.3 (50.5) |
4.4 (39.9) |
−0.3 (31.5) |
9.1 (48.4) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −7.0 (19.4) |
−5.2 (22.6) |
−3.4 (25.9) |
2.3 (36.1) |
4.7 (40.5) |
8.4 (47.1) |
10.8 (51.4) |
10.1 (50.2) |
7.3 (45.1) |
1.9 (35.4) |
−3.4 (25.9) |
−7.2 (19.0) |
−7.2 (19.0) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 0.8 (0.03) |
2.0 (0.08) |
14.5 (0.57) |
45.4 (1.79) |
86.8 (3.42) |
136.3 (5.37) |
106.5 (4.19) |
86.1 (3.39) |
103.4 (4.07) |
48.8 (1.92) |
6.6 (0.26) |
1.0 (0.04) |
638.2 (25.13) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 1.1 | 1.8 | 6.4 | 11.9 | 18.1 | 22.2 | 18.6 | 15.5 | 17.5 | 13.5 | 3.9 | 0.8 | 131.3 |
| Average snowy days | 1.7 | 1.3 | 0.6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 4.2 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 43 | 40 | 41 | 46 | 53 | 65 | 66 | 61 | 65 | 62 | 54 | 48 | 54 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 154.5 | 164.2 | 196.2 | 203.8 | 204.3 | 165.9 | 172.2 | 179.0 | 165.5 | 174.0 | 158.3 | 139.1 | 2,077 |
| Percentage possible sunshine | 48 | 52 | 52 | 52 | 48 | 39 | 40 | 44 | 45 | 50 | 50 | 44 | 47 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration[8][9] All-time Oct high[10] | |||||||||||||
