Dêngqên County
County in Tibet, China
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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.
Dêngqên County
丁青县 • སྟེང་ཆེན་རྫོང་། | |
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.png) Location of Dêngqên County (red) in Chamdo City (yellow) and the Tibet A.R. | |
  Dêngqên Location of the seat in the Tibet A.R.  Dêngqên Dêngqên (China) | |
| Coordinates: 31°24′51″N 95°35′50″E | |
| Country | China |
| Autonomous region | Tibet |
| Prefecture-level city | Chamdo |
| County seat | Dêngqên |
| Area | |
• Total | 12,368.49 km2 (4,775.50 sq mi) |
| Population (2020)[1] | |
• Total | 98,677 |
| • Density | 7.9781/km2 (20.663/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Website | dingqing |
| Dêngqên County | |||||||
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| Chinese name | |||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 丁青县 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 丁青縣 | ||||||
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| Tibetan name | |||||||
| Tibetan | སྟེང་ཆེན་རྫོང་། | ||||||
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Administrative divisions
Dêngqên County is divided in 2 towns and 11 townships.
| Name | Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | ||
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| 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
Climate
| Climate data for Dêngqên, elevation 3,873 m (12,707 ft), (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–2010) | |||||||||||||
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| 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 |
| Percentage possible sunshine | 65 | 60 | 55 | 54 | 52 | 44 | 44 | 48 | 54 | 60 | 72 | 73 | 57 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration[2][3] | |||||||||||||
