Tingri County

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.

Tingri County
定日县 • དིང་རི་རྫོང་།
Dhringgri
County
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
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
Tibetan name
Tibetanདིང་རི་རྫོང་།

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]

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 Qǔdāng 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)
Average high °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)
Average low °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[4][5]

Transport
  • Dampa Sangye, author of the Dingri One Hundred and founder of Dingri Langkhor
    Dampa Sangye, author of the Dingri One Hundred [6][7][8] and founder of Dingri Langkhor [9]
  • Machig Labdrön (1055-1149), student of Padampa Sanggye at Dingri Langkhor
    Machig Labdrön (1055-1149), student of Padampa Sanggye at Dingri Langkhor [10][9]
  • Map including Tingri (labelled as TINGRI DZONG) (1954)
    Map including Tingri (labelled as TINGRI DZONG) (1954)
  • Map including Tingri (T'ing-jih) (DMA, 1981)
    Map including Tingri (T'ing-jih) (DMA, 1981)
  • Zhangton Chobar, Lamdre practitioner, b. 1053 in Tingri County
    Zhangton Chobar, Lamdre practitioner, b. 1053 in Tingri County [11]

References
  1. "日喀则市第七次全国人口普查主要数据公报" (in Chinese). Government of Xigazê. 2021-07-20.
  2. Footprint Tibet Handbook with Bhutan, p. 296. 2nd edition (1999). Gyume Dorje. Footprint Handbooks, Bath, England. ISBN 1-900949-33-4.
  3. 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
  4. 中国气象数据网 – WeatherBk Data (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 27 August 2023.
  5. 中国气象数据网 (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 27 August 2023.
  6. Sorensen, Michelle (2011). "Padampa Sanggye". The Treasury of Lives. Retrieved 2017-07-24.
  7. "The Tingri Hundred". Tibetological. Retrieved 2017-07-24.
  8. "ding ri glang 'khor". Rangjung Yeshe Wiki - Dharma Dictionnary. 2005. Retrieved 2017-07-24.
  9. "Dingri Langkhor". The Treasury of Lives. Retrieved 2017-07-24.
  10. Sorenson, Michelle (2010). "Machik Labdron". The Treasury of Lives. Retrieved 2017-07-24.
  11. Gardener, Alexander (2010). "Zhangton Chobar". The Treasury of Lives. Retrieved 2017-07-24.

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