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.

NameChineseHanyu PinyinTibetanWylie
Towns
Dêngqên Town丁青镇Dīngqīng zhènསྟེང་ཆེན་གྲོང་རྡལ།steng chen grong rdal
Trido Town尺犊镇Chǐdú zhènཁྲི་རྡོ་གྲོང་རྡལ།khri rdo grong rdal
Townships
Gyangngön Township觉恩乡Jué'ēn xiāngགྱང་སྔོན་ཤང་།gyang sngon shang
Sagang Township沙贡乡Shāgòng xiāngས་སྒང་ཤང་།sa sgang shang
Damdoi Township当堆乡Dāngduī xiāngགཏམ་སྟོད་ཤང་།gtam stod shang
Sado Township桑多乡Sāngduō xiāngས་མདོ་ཤང་།sa mdo shang
Muta Township木塔乡Mùtǎ xiāngདམུ་ཐ་ཤང་།dmu tha shang
Bota Township布塔乡Bùtǎ xiāngའབོ་ཐ་ཤང་།'bo tha shang
Pada Township巴达乡Bādá xiāngསྤ་ཟླ་ཤང་།spa zla shang
Gangé Township甘岩乡Gānyán xiāngགྭ་ངད་ཤང་།gwa ngad shang
Gata Township嘎塔乡Gātǎ xiāngགྭ་ཐ་ཤང་།gwa tha shang
Sertsa Township色扎乡Sèzhā xiāngསེར་ཚ་ཤང་།ser tsha shang
Zhezhung Township协雄乡Xiéxióng xiāngཞེ་གཞུང་ཤང་།zhe gzhung shang

Transport

Climate

Climate data for Dêngqên, elevation 3,873 m (12,707 ft), (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–2010)
MonthJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecYear
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)4.17.310.713.117.121.521.819.819.414.25.53.5158
Average snowy days7.711.015.317.47.51.10.10.11.011.87.95.085.9
Average relative humidity (%)44465154586568676966544757
Mean monthly sunshine hours209.8188.3207.0212.0223.7188.7190.9193.8198.2208.9223.9229.42,474.6
Percentage possible sunshine65605554524444485460727357
Source: China Meteorological Administration

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