Shuanghu County

Shuanghu County (Chinese: 双湖县), also transliterated from Tibetan as Tsonyi County^[3][4][5] or Co Nyi County^[6][7] (Tibetan: མཚོ་གཉིས་རྫོང་།; Chinese: 错尼县), is a county under the jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city of Nagqu, in the northernmost part of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China. It was formed in 2012, combining the territory of the former Shuanghu Special District (Chinese: 双湖特别区, Tibetan: མཚོ་གཉིས་དམིགས་བསལ་སྲིད་འཛིན་ཁུལ་) with the eastern half of Nyima County. Much of the county is within the Changtang area.

Shuanghu County 双湖县 • མཚོ་གཉིས་རྫོང་། Tsonyi, Co Nyi
County
Location of Shuanghu County (light yellow, #FFFF31) in Nagqu
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Coordinates: 33°11′32″N 88°50′10″E
Country	China
Autonomous region	Tibet
Prefecture-level city	Nagqu
County seat	Domar Township
Area
• Total	116,440.91 km2 (44,958.09 sq mi)
Elevation [1]	4,960 m (16,270 ft)
Population  (2020)[2]
• Total	10,881
• Density	0.093/km2 (0.24/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Website	www.xzsh.gov.cn

Shuanghu County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	双湖县
Traditional Chinese	雙湖縣
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Shuānghú Xiàn
Tibetan name
Tibetan	མཚོ་གཉིས་རྫོང་།
Transcriptions Wylie mtsho gnyis rdzong Tibetan Pinyin Conyi Zong

Both Tibetan and Chinese name translates to "twin lake" or "two lakes", the two lakes referred to as Khangro Lake (khang ro tshwa kha) and Rêjo Lake (re co tshwa kha) respectively. Shuanghu County is at very high elevation, mostly above 5,000 meters above sea level, and very sparsely populated (averaging around 0.12 people per square kilometre, but concentrated in the southern portion of the county). The vast majority of its population practices nomadic pastoralism (mostly goats and sheep).^[8] The climate is very rough, cold and dry. There is a weather station in Shuanghu, established in 1999,^[9] which on average measures negative temperatures (Celsius scale) throughout the year. The highest temperature on record is +2.3 °C (July 2000), the lowest −62.4 °C (January 2006).

Administrative divisions

"Garco" redirects here. For GARCO, see General Asbestos and Rubber Company Main Mill.

The county has one town and six townships:

Name	Chinese	Hanyu Pinyin	Tibetan	Wylie
Town
Cozhêlhoma Town (Codrel Lhoma, Soggarluma)	措折罗玛镇	Cuòzhéluómǎ zhèn	ཚོ་འབྲེལ་ལྷོ་མ་གྲོང་རྡལ།	tsho 'bral lho ma grong rdal
Townships
Zhide Township (Xibdê)	协德乡	Xiédé xiāng	ཞི་བདེ་ཤང་།	zhi bde shang
Yachu Township	雅曲乡	Yǎqǔ xiāng	ཡ་ཆུ་ཤང་།	ya chu shang
Garco Township	嘎措乡	Gācuò xiāng	དཀར་མཚོ་ཤང་།	dkar mtsho shang
Tsodrel Jangma Township	措折强玛乡	Cuòzhéqiángmǎ xiāng	ཚོ་སྦྲེལ་བྱང་མ་ཤང་།	mtsho sbrel byang ma shang
Cozhêdangma Township (Tsodrel Jangma)	措折强玛乡	Cuòzhéqiángmǎ xiāng	ཚོ་སྦྲེལ་བྱང་མ་ཤང་།	mtsho sbrel byang ma shang
Domar Township	多玛乡	Duōmǎ xiāng	རྡོ་དམར་ཤང་།	rdo dmar shang
Parling Township	巴岭乡	Bālǐng xiāng	བར་གླིང་ཤང་།	bar gling shang

Gallery

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  Location of Shuanghu Special District (outdated map, situation before 2012)
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  Map including northern Shuanghu and surrounding region (DMA, 1975)
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See also

• Changtang
• Kunlun Mountains
• Dagze Lake
• Lake Urru
• Purog Kangri Glacier
• Puruogangri