Deqin County
Deqin County
德钦县 • བདེ་ཆེན་རྫོང་ | ||
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Postal code 674500 | ||
Area code | 0887 | |
Website | deqin |
Deqin County | |||||||
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Chinese name | |||||||
Tibetan | བདེ་ཆེན་རྫོང་ | ||||||
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Deqin County[a] is county of Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, located in northwest Yunnan province, China.
Etymology
The prefecture's name is derived from the Tibetan word བདེ་ཆེན (dêqên), which means "auspicious place".[2] In Chinese, the name is written with the characters 德 (dé) and 钦 (qīn), which mean "benevolence" and "to respect", respectively.
Geography and climate
Deqin occupies the northwest corner of Diqing Prefecture, and in latitude has a range of 27° 33'−29° 15' N and in longitude has a range of 98° 36'−99° 33' E, covering an area of 7,596 square kilometres (2,933 sq mi),
Being located at an altitude of 3,300 metres (10,800 ft), Deqin lies in the transition between a
Climate data for Deqin County (1994–2020 normals, extremes 1971–2010) | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Record high °C (°F) | 13.9 (57.0) |
14.1 (57.4) |
17.2 (63.0) |
21.2 (70.2) |
22.9 (73.2) |
26.9 (80.4) |
26.9 (80.4) |
23.9 (75.0) |
23.8 (74.8) |
20.4 (68.7) |
15.8 (60.4) |
14.9 (58.8) |
26.9 (80.4) |
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 5.9 (42.6) |
6.8 (44.2) |
8.6 (47.5) |
11.8 (53.2) |
15.9 (60.6) |
19.2 (66.6) |
19.2 (66.6) |
19.1 (66.4) |
17.7 (63.9) |
14.3 (57.7) |
10.5 (50.9) |
7.4 (45.3) |
13.0 (55.5) |
Daily mean °C (°F) | −1.5 (29.3) |
0.0 (32.0) |
2.3 (36.1) |
5.5 (41.9) |
9.6 (49.3) |
13.2 (55.8) |
13.7 (56.7) |
13.2 (55.8) |
11.8 (53.2) |
7.3 (45.1) |
2.7 (36.9) |
−0.5 (31.1) |
6.4 (43.6) |
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −6.4 (20.5) |
−4.7 (23.5) |
−1.9 (28.6) |
1.1 (34.0) |
5.0 (41.0) |
9.2 (48.6) |
10.5 (50.9) |
10.2 (50.4) |
8.7 (47.7) |
3.4 (38.1) |
−1.8 (28.8) |
−5.4 (22.3) |
2.3 (36.2) |
Record low °C (°F) | −13.3 (8.1) |
−11.5 (11.3) |
−8.4 (16.9) |
−4.7 (23.5) |
−1.6 (29.1) |
2.7 (36.9) |
3.6 (38.5) |
4.0 (39.2) |
−0.1 (31.8) |
−2.8 (27.0) |
−11.5 (11.3) |
−12.0 (10.4) |
−13.3 (8.1) |
Average precipitation mm (inches) | 8.2 (0.32) |
16.7 (0.66) |
54.7 (2.15) |
62.8 (2.47) |
64.6 (2.54) |
61.5 (2.42) |
142.1 (5.59) |
116.2 (4.57) |
62.5 (2.46) |
43.4 (1.71) |
17.4 (0.69) |
4.0 (0.16) |
654.1 (25.74) |
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 6.4 | 9.3 | 14.4 | 14.2 | 13.4 | 15.3 | 22.3 | 21.3 | 14.5 | 9.4 | 4.9 | 2.3 | 147.7 |
Average snowy days | 9.7 | 13.1 | 15.6 | 5.8 | 0.6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 0.9 | 5.1 | 4.6 | 55.5 |
Average relative humidity (%)
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55 | 61 | 68 | 70 | 71 | 75 | 81 | 83 | 81 | 74 | 63 | 54 | 70 |
Mean monthly sunshine hours | 169.3 | 157.2 | 162.9 | 155.5 | 166.1 | 146.1 | 116.9 | 129.4 | 138.5 | 172.5 | 174.8 | 175.8 | 1,865 |
Percent possible sunshine | 52 | 49 | 44 | 40 | 39 | 35 | 28 | 32 | 38 | 49 | 55 | 55 | 43 |
Source 1: China Meteorological Administration[4][5] | |||||||||||||
Source 2: Weather China[6] |
Administrative divisions
Deqin County has 2 towns, 4 townships and 2 ethnic townships.[7]
Name | Simplified Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | Administrative division code | |
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Towns | ||||||
Deqen Town (Shengping) |
升平镇 | Shēngpíng zhèn | བདེ་ཆེན་གྲོང་རྡལ། | bde chen grong rdal | 533422101 | |
Gongzêra Town (Benzilan) |
奔子栏镇 | Bēnzǐlán zhèn | ཀོང་རྩེད་ར་གྲོང་རྡལ། | kong rtsed ra grong rdal | 533422102 | |
Towns | ||||||
Foshan Township | 佛山乡 | Fóshān xiāng | 53342220 | |||
Yunling Township | 云岭乡 | Yúnlǐng xiāng | 53342221 | |||
Yanmen Township | 燕门乡 | Yànmén xiāng | 53342223 | |||
Yagra Township (Yala) |
羊拉乡 | Yánglā xiāng | གཡག་རྭ་ཤང་། | g.yag rwa shang | 53342226 | |
Ethnic townships | ||||||
Tangdoi Lisu Ethnic Township (Tuoding) |
拖顶傈僳族乡 | Tuōdǐng Lìsùzú xiāng | ཐང་སྟོད་ལི་སུའུ་རིགས་ཤང་། | thang stod li su'u rigs shang | 533422204 | |
Zhag'o Lisu Ethnic Township (Xiaruo) |
霞若傈僳族乡 | Xiáruò Lìsùzú xiāng | ག་འོག་ལི་སུའུ་རིགས་ཤང་། | brag 'og li su'u rigs shang | 533422205 |
Demographics
The Tibetans of Deqin, compared to Tibetans in Tibet, have had longer-lasting trade relations with the Han Chinese and other ethnic groups.[8]
Composition
Meilishi (梅里石) is in Foshan Township,[9] in the northernmost part of the county.[10]
Transportation
Deqin can be reached by many daily buses traveling North from Kunming – Dali – Lijiang – Zhongdian – Deqin.
The route is a very scenic and most of it is a newly built highway apart from the Zhongdian to Deqin section which is a winding mountain road through the scenic North Yunnan/Tibetan mountains.
See also
- Bamê, a village in Foshan, Deqin County
- Meili Snow Mountains
Notes
References
Citations
- ^ "迪庆州第七次全国人口普查主要数据公报" (in Chinese). Government of Diqing Prefecture. 2021-05-27.
- ^ "Diqing". Wonders of Yunnan.
- ^ 德钦城市介绍 (in Simplified Chinese). Weather China. Retrieved 2011-11-14.
- ^ 中国气象数据网 – WeatherBk Data (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 9 April 2023.
- ^ 中国气象数据网 (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 9 April 2023.
- ^ 德钦 – 气象数据 -中国天气网 (in Chinese). Weather China. Retrieved 26 November 2022.
- ^ "国家统计局" (in Chinese). National Bureau of Statistics of the People's Republic of China. Retrieved 2021-12-07.
- ^ Galipeau, p. 7 (PDF 22/148).
- ^ Galipeau, p. 6 (PDF 21/148).
- ^ Galipeau, p. 5 (PDF 20/148).
Sources
- Galipeau, Brendan A. "Socio-Ecological Vulnerability in a Tibetan Village on the Lancang River, China" (Archive) (master's thesis). Oregon State University. July 6, 2012.
External links
- Deqin travel guide from Wikivoyage
- Deqin County official website