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
China Standard)
Websitewww.drx.gov.cn
Tingri County
Chinese name
Tibetan
དིང་རི་རྫོང་།

Tingri County (

Xigazê in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China.[2]

The county comprises the upper valley 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

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

Climate data for Tingri (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–2010)
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) 		−27.5
(−17.5) 		−27.7
(−17.9)
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]

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References

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  2. ISBN 978-3-031-09165-0
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  4. ^ Department of Forestry, Government of the Tibet Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China, ‘’Report on Protected Lands in the Tibet Autonomous Region’’ Lhasa: Tibet Autonomous Region Government Publishing House, 2006
  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.
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