Nagarzê County
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Nagarzê County 浪卡子县 • སྣ་དཀར་རྩེ་རྫོང་། | |
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Coordinates: 28°51′03″N 90°55′21″E / 28.85083°N 90.92250°E | |
Country | China |
Autonomous region | Tibet |
Prefecture-level city | Shannan (Lhoka) |
County seat | Nagarzê |
Area | |
• Total | 7,969.89 km2 (3,077.19 sq mi) |
Elevation | 4,300−5,000 m (−12,100 ft) |
Population (2020)[1] | |
• Total | 32,835 |
• Density | 4.1/km2 (11/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
Website | www |
Nagarzê County | |||||||
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Chinese name | |||||||
Simplified Chinese | 浪卡子县 | ||||||
Traditional Chinese | 浪卡子縣 | ||||||
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Tibetan name | |||||||
Tibetan | སྣ་དཀར་རྩེ་རྫོང་། | ||||||
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Nagarzê County (Tibetan: སྣ་དཀར་རྩེ་རྫོང་།, Chinese: 浪卡子县) is a county of Shannan located in the south-east of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China. The Yarlung Tsangpo river dominates the county. Baidi Township is located in the county.
Administrative divisions[edit]
Nagarzê County contains 2 towns and 8 townships.
Name | Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie |
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Towns | ||||
Nagarzê Town | 浪卡子镇 | Làngkǎzǐ zhèn | སྣ་དཀར་རྩེ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | sna dkar rtse grong rdal |
Daglung Town | 打隆镇 | Dǎlóng zhèn | སྟག་ལུང་གྲོང་རྡལ། | stag lung grong rdal |
Townships | ||||
Chamda Township | 张达乡 | Zhāngdá xiāng | གྲམ་མདའ་ཤང་། | gram mda' shang |
Lhülpozhöl Township | 伦布雪乡 | Lúnbùxuě xiāng | ལྷུན་པོ་ཞོལ་ཤང་། | lhun po zhol shang |
Doqoi Township | 多却乡 | Duōquè xiāng | མདོ་ཆོས་ཤང་། | mdo chos shang |
Puma Jangtang Township | 普玛江塘乡 | Pǔmǎjiāngtáng xiāng | ཕུ་མ་བྱང་ཐང་ཤང་། | phu ma byang thang shang |
Ngardrak Township | 阿扎乡 | Āzhā xiāng | མངར་བྲག་ཤང་། | mngar brag shang |
Karlung Township | 卡龙乡 | Kǎlóng xiāng | མཁར་ལུང་ཤང་། | mkhar lung shang |
Baidi Township | 白地乡 | Báidì xiāng | དབལ་དི་ཤང་། | dpal di shang |
Karrêg Township | 卡热乡 | Kǎrè xiāng | ཁ་དབྲག་ཤང་། | kha dbrag shang |
Climate[edit]
Climate data for Nagarzê (1991–2020 normals) | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 2.7 (36.9) | 4.0 (39.2) | 6.6 (43.9) | 9.7 (49.5) | 13.3 (55.9) | 16.6 (61.9) | 16.1 (61.0) | 15.4 (59.7) | 14.1 (57.4) | 11.4 (52.5) | 7.3 (45.1) | 4.6 (40.3) | 10.2 (50.3) |
Daily mean °C (°F) | −4.3 (24.3) | −2.8 (27.0) | −0.1 (31.8) | 2.7 (36.9) | 6.4 (43.5) | 10.1 (50.2) | 10.4 (50.7) | 9.8 (49.6) | 8.0 (46.4) | 4.0 (39.2) | −0.2 (31.6) | −2.7 (27.1) | 3.4 (38.2) |
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −11.2 (11.8) | −9.8 (14.4) | −6.4 (20.5) | −3.3 (26.1) | 0.2 (32.4) | 4.3 (39.7) | 6.1 (43.0) | 5.6 (42.1) | 2.9 (37.2) | −2.5 (27.5) | −6.9 (19.6) | −9.5 (14.9) | −2.5 (27.4) |
Average precipitation mm (inches) | 0.4 (0.02) | 0.9 (0.04) | 2.7 (0.11) | 9.0 (0.35) | 22.3 (0.88) | 49.9 (1.96) | 122.0 (4.80) | 119.3 (4.70) | 50.8 (2.00) | 7.7 (0.30) | 1.3 (0.05) | 0.6 (0.02) | 386.9 (15.23) |
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 0.5 | 0.9 | 2.7 | 5.8 | 8.7 | 14.4 | 21.5 | 22.2 | 15.4 | 3.1 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 96.3 |
Average snowy days | 2.1 | 3.8 | 6.9 | 11.3 | 11.3 | 1.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 1.2 | 4.6 | 2.1 | 1.4 | 46.1 |
Average relative humidity (%) | 23 | 25 | 31 | 40 | 48 | 57 | 68 | 71 | 67 | 47 | 30 | 23 | 44 |
Mean monthly sunshine hours | 258.8 | 235.0 | 257.7 | 250.7 | 257.2 | 228.5 | 179.5 | 176.0 | 204.1 | 267.8 | 272.3 | 269.3 | 2,856.9 |
Percent possible sunshine | 79 | 74 | 69 | 65 | 61 | 55 | 42 | 44 | 56 | 76 | 86 | 85 | 66 |
Source: China Meteorological Administration[2][3] |
Gallery[edit]
- Lake at Sim La
- Sim La 4330m
- Yak
- Karo La-Glacier
- Karo La 5030m
- Sheep
- Yamdrok Tso
- Yamdrok Lake (labelled as YAMDROG TSHO) (1954)
References[edit]
- ^ "山南市第七次全国人口普查主要数据公报" (in Chinese). Statistics Bureau of Lhoka. 2021-06-24.
- ^ 中国气象数据网 – WeatherBk Data (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 27 September 2023.
- ^ 中国气象数据网 (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 27 September 2023.