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.^[2]

Tingri County 定日县 • དིང་རི་རྫོང་། Dhringgri
County
Location of Tingri County (red) within Xigazê City (yellow) and the Tibet Autonomous Region
Tingri County Location of the seat in the Tibet Autonomous Region Show map of Tibet Tingri County Tingri County (China) Show map of China
Coordinates (Tingri County government, Shelkar): 28°39′32″N 87°07′34″E
Country	China
Autonomous region	Tibet
Prefecture-level city	Xigazê
County seat	Shelkar
Area
• Total	13,861.21 km2 (5,351.84 sq mi)
Population  (2020)[1]
• Total	58,173
• Density	4.2/km2 (11/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Website	www.drx.gov.cn

Tingri County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	定日县
Traditional Chinese	定日縣
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Dìngrì Xiàn
Tibetan name
Tibetan	དིང་རི་རྫོང་།
Transcriptions Wylie ding ri rdzong Tibetan Pinyin Tingri Zong

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. 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, 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[5][6]all-time extreme temperature[7]

Transport

• China National Highway 318
• Shigatse Tingri Airport (under construction)

Gallery

• 
  Dampa Sangye, author of the Dingri One Hundred ^[8][9][10] and founder of Dingri Langkhor ^[11]
• 
  Machig Labdrön (1055-1149), student of Padampa Sanggye at Dingri Langkhor ^[12][11]
• 
  Map including Tingri (labelled as TINGRI DZONG) (1954)
• 
  Map including Tingri (T'ing-jih) (DMA, 1981)
• 
  Zhangton Chobar, Lamdre practitioner, b. 1053 in Tingri County ^[13]

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. Croddy, E. (2022). China’s Provinces and Populations: A Chronological and Geographical Survey. Springer International Publishing. p. 698. ISBN 978-3-031-09165-0. Retrieved 2024-03-07.
3. Footprint Tibet Handbook with Bhutan, p. 296. 2nd edition (1999). Gyume Dorje. Footprint Handbooks, Bath, England. ISBN 1-900949-33-4.
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.
7. "Extreme Temperatures Around the World". Retrieved 2024-10-23.
8. Sorensen, Michelle (2011). "Padampa Sanggye". The Treasury of Lives. Retrieved 2017-07-24.
9. "The Tingri Hundred". Tibetological. Retrieved 2017-07-24.
10. "ding ri glang 'khor". Rangjung Yeshe Wiki - Dharma Dictionnary. 2005. Retrieved 2017-07-24.
11. "Dingri Langkhor". The Treasury of Lives. Retrieved 2017-07-24.
12. Sorenson, Michelle (2010). "Machik Labdron". The Treasury of Lives. Retrieved 2017-07-24.
13. Gardener, Alexander (2010). "Zhangton Chobar". The Treasury of Lives. Retrieved 2017-07-24.

Further reading

• Annals of Tingri County (in Chinese)