Dinggyê County

Dinggyê County (Tibetan: གཏིང་སྐྱེས་རྫོང་།, Chinese: 定结县) is a county of the Xigazê city in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China, bordering Nepal's Sankhuwasabha and Taplejung Districts to the south and India's Sikkim state to the southeast. Jin Co and Duolo Co are located in this county.[2]

Dinggyê County
གཏིང་སྐྱེས་རྫོང་། · 定结县
Dinjie, Tingche, Tingkye
Location of Dinggyê County (red) within Xigazê City (yellow) and the Tibet Autonomous Region
Location of Dinggyê County (red) within Xigazê City (yellow) and the Tibet Autonomous Region
Dinggyê is located in Tibet
Dinggyê
Dinggyê
Location of the seat in the Tibet A.R.
Dinggyê is located in China
Dinggyê
Dinggyê
Dinggyê (China)
Coordinates (Dinggyê County government): 28°21′51″N 87°45′57″E / 28.3642°N 87.7659°E / 28.3642; 87.7659
CountryChina
Autonomous regionTibet
Prefecture-level cityXigazê
County seatGyankar
Area
 • Total5,834.55 km2 (2,252.73 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)[1]
 • Total20,362
 • Density3.5/km2 (9.0/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Websitewww.djx.gov.cn
Dinggyê County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese定结县
Traditional Chinese定結縣
Tibetan name
Tibetanགཏིང་སྐྱེས་རྫོང་།

It is one of the four counties that comprise the Qomolangma National Nature Preserve (Dinggyê, Tingri, Nyalam, and Kyirong).[3]

Administration divisions edit

Dinggyê County is divided into 3 towns and 7 townships.

NameChineseHanyu PinyinTibetanWylie
Towns
Gyangkar Town江嘎镇Jiānggā zhènརྒྱལ་མཁར་གྲོང་རྡལ།rgyal mkhar grong rdal
Zhêntang Town陈塘镇Chéntáng zhènའདྲེན་ཐང་གྲོང་རྡལ།'dren thang grong rdal
Ri'og Town日屋镇Rìwū zhènརི་འོག་གྲོང་རྡལ།ri 'og grong rdal
Townships
Qab Township确布乡Quèbù xiāngཆབ་ཤང་།chab shang
Dinggyê Township定结乡Dìngjié xiāngགདིང་སྐྱེས་ཤང་།gding skyes shang
Dozhag Township多布扎乡Duōbùzhā xiāngརྡོ་བྲག་ཤང་།rdo brag shang
Tashi Nang Township扎西岗乡Zhāxīgǎng xiāngབཀྲ་ཤིས་སྣང་ཤང་།bkra shis snang shang
Kyungzê Township萨尔乡Sà'ěr xiāngཁྱུང་རྩེ་ཤང་།khyung rtse shang
Sar Township萨尔乡Qióngzī xiāngགཟར་ཤང་།gzar shang
Gojag Township郭加乡Guōjiā xiāngཀོ་ལྕག་ཤང་།ko lcag shang

References edit

  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. Archived from the original on 2021-10-26. Retrieved 2023-08-12.
  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. ^ 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

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