Tingri County

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Tingri County (Tibetan: དིང་རི་རྫོང་།; simplified Chinese: 定日县; traditional Chinese: 定日縣; pinyin: Dìngrì Xiàn) is a county under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Xigazê in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China.[2]

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Tingri County
定日县དིང་རི་རྫོང་།
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A man riding a dzo in Tingri County, 1993
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Location of Tingri County (red) within Xigazê City (yellow) and the Tibet Autonomous Region
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Tingri County
Location of the seat in the Tibet Autonomous Region
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Tingri County
Tingri County (China)
Coordinates (Tingri County seat, Shelkar): 28°39′36″N 87°7′30″E
CountryChina
Autonomous regionTibet
Prefecture-level cityXigazê
County seatShelkar
Area
  Total
13,861.21 km2 (5,351.84 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)[1]
  Total
58,173
  Density4.2/km2 (11/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Websitewww.drx.gov.cn
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Tingri County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese定日县
Traditional Chinese定日縣
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinDìngrì Xiàn
Tibetan name
Tibetanདིང་རི་རྫོང་།
Transcriptions
Wylieding ri rdzong
Tibetan PinyinTingri Zong
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The county comprises the upper valley of the Bum-chu or Arun River, with the valleys of its tributaries, 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. Jomolangma), 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.

Toponymy

Tingri County is named after a nearby hill, which itself is reportedly named after the sound a falling stone made when it hit the hill.[5]

History

Shelkar Dzong was built in the area of the present-day county during the time of the Kashag.[5]

In 1960, Dingri County was established, and in June of that year, a local county government was established.[5] The county headquarters were originally established in Shelkar, but were moved to Gangga in August.[5] In July 1968, the local government moved back to Shelkar, where it remains today.[5]

In 1992, the county was added to the Qomolangma National Nature Preserve.[6]

On 7 January 2025 at 09:05 CST (UTC+8), an earthquake measuring Mw7.1 or Ms6.8 struck Tingri County.

Geography

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Perspective

Dingri County is a county under the jurisdiction of prefecture-level city of Xigazê. It is located in the southern part of the Tibet Autonomous Region and the south-central part of Xigazê.[6] It borders Dinggyê County and Sa'gya County to the east, Nyalam County to the west, Ngamring County to the north, Lhatse County to the northeast, and Nepal to the south.[6] It is 115 kilometres (71 mi) long from east to west and 152 kilometres (94 mi) wide from north to south, with a total area of about 14,000 square kilometres (5,400 sq mi).[6]

Tingri County is located at the northern foot of the middle section of the Himalayas, and at the northern foot of Mount Everest.[6] The county's landscape is extremely mountainous, with an average altitude of more than 5,000 metres (16,000 ft) above sea level, and the county seat situated at an altitude of 4,300 metres (14,100 ft) above sea level.[6] The world's highest peak, Mount Everest, and the world's sixth-highest mountain, Cho Oyu, are located in the county.[6]

The Arun River flows eastward out of the country.[6]

Climate

Tingri County's climate has large temperature differences between day and night, a high amount of sunshine hours, and little annual precipitation.[6]

More information Climate data for Tingri, elevation 4,300 m (14,100 ft), (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–2018), Month ...
Climate data for Tingri, elevation 4,300 m (14,100 ft), (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–2018)
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)
−32.6
(−26.7)
−32.6
(−26.7)
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[7][8]all-time extreme temperature[9]
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Administrative divisions

Tingri County is divided into 2 towns and 11 townships.

More information Name, Chinese ...
Name Chinese Hanyu Pinyin Tibetan Wylie
Towns
Shelkar 协格尔镇 Xiégé'ěr zhèn ཤེལ་དཀར་གྲོང་རྡལ། shel dkar grong rdal
Gangga 岗嘎镇 Gǎnggā zhèn སྒང་དགའ་གྲོང་རྡལ། sgang dga' grong rdal
Townships
Tashi Dzom Township [zh] 扎西宗乡 Zhāxīzōng xiāng བཀྲ་ཤིས་འཛོམས་ཤང་། bkra shis 'dzoms shang
Ronxar Township [zh] 绒辖乡 Róngxiá xiāng རོང་ཤར་ཤང་། rong shar shang
Qutang Township [zh] 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 [zh] 尼辖乡 Níxiá xiāng ཉི་ཤར་ཤང་། nyi shar shang
Zagor Township [zh] 扎果乡 Zhāguǒ xiāng རྩ་སྐོར་ཤང་། rtsa skor shang
Kaimar Township [zh] 克玛乡 Kèmǎ xiāng གད་དམར་ཤང་། gad dmar shang
Pain'gyi Township [zh] 盆吉乡 Pénjí xiāng ཕན་སྐྱིད་ཤང་། phan skyid shang
Gyaco Township 加措乡 Jiācuò xiāng བརྒྱ་ཚོ་ཤང་། brgya mtsho shang
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Demographics

Per the 2020 Chinese Census, Tingri County has a population of 58,173,[1] up from the 50,818 recorded in the 2010 Chinese Census.[5] The 2000 Chinese Census recorded a population of 46,585.[5]

Economy

Agriculture and pastoralism are major sources of employment in Tingri County.[6]

Transport

References

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