Tingri County 定日县 • དིང་རི་རྫོང་། Dhringgri | |
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![]() Location of Tingri County (red) within Xigazê City (yellow) and the Tibet Autonomous Region | |
Coordinates(Tingri County government, Shelkar): 28°39′32″N87°07′34″E / 28.659°N 87.126°E | |
Country | China |
Autonomous region | Tibet |
Prefecture-level city | Xigazê |
County seat | Shelkar |
Area | |
• Total | 13,861.21 km2 (5,351.84 sq mi) |
Population (2020) [1] | |
• Total | 58,173 |
• Density | 4.2/km2 (11/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
Website | www |
Tingri County | |||||||
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Chinese name | |||||||
Simplified Chinese | 定日县 | ||||||
Traditional Chinese | 定日縣 | ||||||
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Tibetan name | |||||||
Tibetan | དིང་རི་རྫོང་། | ||||||
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Tingri County (Tibetan :དིང་རི་རྫོང་།;Chinese :定日县) is a county under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Xigazê in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China.
The county comprises the upper valley of the Bum-chu or Arun River,with the valleys of its tributaries plus the valleys of the Rongshar Tsangpo and the Lapchi Gang Tsanpo which flow south into Nepal. It is bordered on the south by the main range of the Himalayas including Mount Everest (Tib. Chomolungma),Makalu and Cho Oyu. The present county administration is located at Shelkar,about 87 km (54 mi) east of Tingri (town). [2]
It is one of the four counties that comprise the Qomolangma National Nature Preserve (Tingri,Dinjie,Nyalam,and Kyirong). [3]
Tingri County is divided into 2 towns and 11 townships.
Name | Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | ||
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Towns | ||||||
Shelkar Town | 协格尔镇 | Xiégé'ěr zhèn | ཤེལ་དཀར་གྲོང་རྡལ། | shel dkar grong rdal | ||
Gangga Town | 岗嘎镇 | Gǎnggāzhèn | སྒང་དགའ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | sgang dga' grong rdal | ||
Townships | ||||||
Tashi Dzom Township | 扎西宗乡 | Zhāxīzōng xiāng | བཀྲ་ཤིས་འཛོམས་ཤང་། | bkra shis 'dzoms shang | ||
Ronxar Township | 绒辖乡 | Róngxiáxiāng | རོང་ཤར་ཤང་། | rong shar shang | ||
Qutang Township | 曲当乡 | Qǔdāng xiāng | ཆུ་ཐང་ཤང་། | chu thang shang | ||
Cogo Township | 措果乡 | Qǔdāng xiāng | མཚོ་སྒོ་ཤང་། | mtsho sgo shang | ||
Qulho Township | 曲洛乡 | Qǔluòxiāng | ཆུ་ལྷོ་ཤང་། | chu lho shang | ||
Chamco Township | 长所乡 | Zhǎngsuǒxiāng | གྲམ་མཚོ་ཤང་། | gram mtsho shang | ||
Nyixar Township | 尼辖乡 | Níxiáxiāng | ཉི་ཤར་ཤང་། | nyi shar shang | ||
Zagor Township | 扎果乡 | Zhāguǒxiāng | རྩ་སྐོར་ཤང་། | rtsa skor shang | ||
Kaimar Township | 克玛乡 | Kèmǎxiāng | གད་དམར་ཤང་། | gad dmar shang | ||
Pain'gyi Township | 盆吉乡 | Pénjíxiāng | ཕན་སྐྱིད་ཤང་། | phan skyid shang | ||
Gyaco Township | 加措乡 | Jiācuòxiāng | བརྒྱ་ཚོ་ཤང་། | brgya mtsho shang | ||
Climate data for Tingri (1981−2010 normals) | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Record high °C (°F) | 14.7 (58.5) | 15.0 (59.0) | 18.7 (65.7) | 20.8 (69.4) | 23.8 (74.8) | 25.1 (77.2) | 25.8 (78.4) | 23.4 (74.1) | 22.8 (73.0) | 19.3 (66.7) | 17.2 (63.0) | 13.4 (56.1) | 25.8 (78.4) |
Average high °C (°F) | 3.7 (38.7) | 4.9 (40.8) | 8.2 (46.8) | 11.7 (53.1) | 15.9 (60.6) | 20.0 (68.0) | 19.3 (66.7) | 18.0 (64.4) | 17.0 (62.6) | 13.0 (55.4) | 8.1 (46.6) | 5.1 (41.2) | 12.1 (53.7) |
Daily mean °C (°F) | −6.6 (20.1) | −4.8 (23.4) | −1.0 (30.2) | 2.8 (37.0) | 7.2 (45.0) | 11.8 (53.2) | 12.3 (54.1) | 11.4 (52.5) | 9.8 (49.6) | 3.7 (38.7) | −2.3 (27.9) | −5.8 (21.6) | 3.2 (37.8) |
Average low °C (°F) | −16.5 (2.3) | −14.5 (5.9) | −10.4 (13.3) | −5.9 (21.4) | −0.7 (30.7) | 4.8 (40.6) | 7.1 (44.8) | 6.7 (44.1) | 3.7 (38.7) | −4.5 (23.9) | −11.4 (11.5) | −15.5 (4.1) | −4.8 (23.4) |
Record low °C (°F) | −27.7 (−17.9) | −25.3 (−13.5) | −19.0 (−2.2) | −14.0 (6.8) | −8.3 (17.1) | −4.0 (24.8) | 1.4 (34.5) | 0.2 (32.4) | −4.1 (24.6) | −12.3 (9.9) | −19.0 (−2.2) | −27.5 (−17.5) | −27.7 (−17.9) |
Average precipitation mm (inches) | 0.9 (0.04) | 0.6 (0.02) | 0.4 (0.02) | 1.7 (0.07) | 8.8 (0.35) | 22.8 (0.90) | 103.3 (4.07) | 117.7 (4.63) | 28.5 (1.12) | 2.6 (0.10) | 0.9 (0.04) | 0.8 (0.03) | 289 (11.39) |
Average precipitation days (≥0.1 mm) | 0.9 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 1.5 | 3.4 | 6.7 | 16.4 | 17.8 | 7.5 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 57.1 |
Average snowy days | 1.3 | 1.7 | 2.7 | 4.6 | 4.3 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 17.6 |
Average relative humidity (%) | 27 | 27 | 29 | 34 | 41 | 49 | 59 | 64 | 57 | 42 | 35 | 29 | 41 |
Mean monthly sunshine hours | 281.1 | 262.5 | 300.2 | 300.2 | 327.7 | 289.6 | 222.0 | 220.0 | 261.6 | 310.2 | 292.9 | 286.5 | 3,354.5 |
Percent possible sunshine | 86 | 82 | 80 | 77 | 78 | 70 | 52 | 55 | 72 | 89 | 92 | 90 | 77 |
Source:China Meteorological Administration (precipitation days,snow days,sunshine 1991–2020) [4] [5] |
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