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.
Dêgê County
德格县 · སྡེ་དགེ་རྫོང་། Derge, Dege | |
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.png) 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 |
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| Chinese name | |||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 德格县 | ||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 德格縣 | ||||||||
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| Tibetan | སྡེ་དགེ་རྫོང་། | ||||||||
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Administrative divisions
editDêgê County is divided into 10 towns and 13 townships:
| Name | Simplified Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | Administrative division code | |
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| 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
editClimate
edit| Climate data for Dêgê, elevation 3,184 m (10,446 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) | 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
edit- ^ "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
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Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Dêgê.