Dêngqên County

Dêngqên County
Dêngqên County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	丁青县
Traditional Chinese	丁青縣
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Dīngqīng Xiàn
Tibetan name
Tibetan	སྟེང་ཆེན་རྫོང་།
Wylie
Transcriptions
Wylie	steng chen rdzong
Tibetan Pinyin	Dêngqên Zong

Dêngqên County

丁青县 • སྟེང་ཆེན་རྫོང་།
Dêngqên County 丁青县 • སྟེང་ཆེན་རྫོང་།
County
	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 / 31.41417°N 95.59722°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)
• Total	98,677
• Density	8.0/km2 (21/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Website	dingqing.changdu.gov.cn

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

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

China National Highway 317

Climate

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]