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Tingri County

Coordinates: 28°39′32″N 87°07′34″E / 28.659°N 87.126°E / 28.659; 87.126
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Tingri County
定日县དིང་རི་རྫོང་།
Dhringgri
Location of Tingri County (red) within Xigazê City (yellow) and the Tibet Autonomous Region
Location of Tingri County (red) within Xigazê City (yellow) and the Tibet Autonomous Region
Tingri County is located in Tibet
Tingri County
Tingri County
Location of the seat in the Tibet Autonomous Region
Tingri County is located in China
Tingri County
Tingri County
Tingri County (China)
Coordinates (Tingri County government, Shelkar): 28°39′32″N 87°07′34″E / 28.659°N 87.126°E / 28.659; 87.126
CountryChina
Autonomous regionTibet
Prefecture-level cityXigazê
County seatShelkar
Area
 • Total13,861.21 km2 (5,351.84 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)[1]
 • Total58,173
 • Density4.2/km2 (11/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Websitewww.drx.gov.cn
Tingri County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese定日县
Traditional Chinese定日縣
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinDìngrì Xiàn
Tibetan name
Tibetanདིང་རི་རྫོང་།
Transcriptions
Wylieding ri rdzong
Tibetan PinyinTingri Zong

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.[2]

The county comprises the upper valley of the Bum-chu or Arun River, with the valleys of its tributaries, 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).[3]

Tingri is one of the four counties (the other three being Dinjie, Nyalam, and Kyirong) that comprise the Qomolangma National Nature Preserve,[4] a protected area spanning 3.381 million hectares.

Administration divisions

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Tingri County is divided into 2 towns and 11 townships.

Name Chinese Hanyu Pinyin Tibetan Wylie
Towns
Shelkar Town 协格尔镇 Xiégé'ěr zhèn ཤེལ་དཀར་གྲོང་རྡལ། shel dkar grong rdal
Gangga Town 岗嘎镇 Gǎnggā zhèn 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 Róngxiá xiāng རོང་ཤར་ཤང་། rong shar shang
Qutang Township 曲当乡 Qǔdāng xiāng ཆུ་ཐང་ཤང་། chu thang shang
Cogo Township 措果乡 Cuòguǒ xiāng མཚོ་སྒོ་ཤང་། mtsho sgo shang
Qulho Township 曲洛乡 Qǔluò xiāng ཆུ་ལྷོ་ཤང་། chu lho shang
Chamco Township 长所乡 Zhǎngsuǒ xiāng གྲམ་མཚོ་ཤང་། gram mtsho shang
Nyixar Township 尼辖乡 Níxiá xiāng ཉི་ཤར་ཤང་། nyi shar shang
Zagor Township 扎果乡 Zhāguǒ xiāng རྩ་སྐོར་ཤང་། rtsa skor shang
Kaimar Township 克玛乡 Kèmǎ xiāng གད་དམར་ཤང་། gad dmar shang
Pain'gyi Township 盆吉乡 Pénjí xiāng ཕན་སྐྱིད་ཤང་། phan skyid shang
Gyaco Township 加措乡 Jiācuò xiāng བརྒྱ་ཚོ་ཤང་། brgya mtsho shang

Climate

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Climate data for Tingri, elevation 4,300 m (14,100 ft), (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–2018)
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)
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) 3.7
(38.7)
5.1
(41.2)
8.3
(46.9)
11.9
(53.4)
16.1
(61.0)
20.2
(68.4)
19.5
(67.1)
18.2
(64.8)
17.5
(63.5)
13.3
(55.9)
8.8
(47.8)
5.8
(42.4)
12.4
(54.3)
Daily mean °C (°F) −6.4
(20.5)
−4.4
(24.1)
−0.8
(30.6)
3.1
(37.6)
7.6
(45.7)
12.1
(53.8)
12.6
(54.7)
11.6
(52.9)
10.1
(50.2)
4.0
(39.2)
−1.6
(29.1)
−5.2
(22.6)
3.6
(38.4)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) −16.1
(3.0)
−14.1
(6.6)
−10.1
(13.8)
−5.4
(22.3)
−0.2
(31.6)
5.2
(41.4)
7.4
(45.3)
6.9
(44.4)
4.1
(39.4)
−4.2
(24.4)
−10.9
(12.4)
−14.9
(5.2)
−4.4
(24.1)
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)
−32.6
(−26.7)
−32.6
(−26.7)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 1.0
(0.04)
0.7
(0.03)
0.6
(0.02)
2.6
(0.10)
9.1
(0.36)
23.0
(0.91)
108.4
(4.27)
116.7
(4.59)
27.1
(1.07)
1.7
(0.07)
0.9
(0.04)
0.5
(0.02)
292.3
(11.52)
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 40 48 59 64 56 41 34 28 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[5][6]all-time extreme temperature[7]

Transport

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References

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  2. ^ Croddy, E. (2022). China’s Provinces and Populations: A Chronological and Geographical Survey. Springer International Publishing. p. 698. ISBN 978-3-031-09165-0. Retrieved 2024-03-07.
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  5. ^ 中国气象数据网 – WeatherBk Data (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 27 August 2023.
  6. ^ 中国气象数据网 (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 27 August 2023.
  7. ^ "Extreme Temperatures Around the World". Retrieved 2024-10-23.
  8. ^ Sorensen, Michelle (2011). "Padampa Sanggye". The Treasury of Lives. Retrieved 2017-07-24.
  9. ^ "The Tingri Hundred". Tibetological. Retrieved 2017-07-24.
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Further reading

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