Dêgê County (Tibetan: སྡེ་དགེ་རྫོང, Wylie: sde dge rdzong, THL: derge dzong, ZYPY: Dêgê Zong; simplified Chinese: 德格县; traditional Chinese: 德格縣; pinyin: Dégé xiàn) is a county in southern China, which was formerly one of the Kham region's five independent kingdoms - the Kingdom of Derge - but is now administered as a county in Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in far northwestern Sichuan, China, bordering the Tibet Autonomous Region to the west. Its county seat is the town of Derge.
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Dêgê County
德格县 | |
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County | |
![]() Dzongsar Monastery | |
![]() Location of Dêgê County (red) within Garzê Prefecture (yellow) and Sichuan province | |
![]() ![]() Dêgê Location of the seat in Sichuan | |
Coordinates: 31°48′22″N 98°34′51″E | |
Country | People's Republic of China |
Province | Sichuan |
Autonomous prefecture | Garzê |
Seat | Derge |
Area | |
• Total | 11,025 km2 (4,257 sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
Climate data for Dêgê (1981–2010) | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Record high °C (°F) | 22.6 (72.7) |
21.6 (70.9) |
25.6 (78.1) |
27.3 (81.1) |
28.5 (83.3) |
32.2 (90.0) |
31.4 (88.5) |
30.3 (86.5) |
29.8 (85.6) |
26.4 (79.5) |
22.4 (72.3) |
19.7 (67.5) |
32.2 (90.0) |
Average high °C (°F) | 7.6 (45.7) |
9.4 (48.9) |
12.5 (54.5) |
15.6 (60.1) |
19.4 (66.9) |
21.6 (70.9) |
22.9 (73.2) |
22.4 (72.3) |
20.0 (68.0) |
16.3 (61.3) |
11.6 (52.9) |
7.6 (45.7) |
15.6 (60.0) |
Daily mean °C (°F) | −1.9 (28.6) |
0.7 (33.3) |
4.0 (39.2) |
7.3 (45.1) |
10.9 (51.6) |
13.6 (56.5) |
14.8 (58.6) |
14.2 (57.6) |
11.6 (52.9) |
7.4 (45.3) |
1.9 (35.4) |
−1.9 (28.6) |
6.9 (44.4) |
Average low °C (°F) | −8.9 (16.0) |
−6.3 (20.7) |
−2.6 (27.3) |
0.9 (33.6) |
4.5 (40.1) |
8.3 (46.9) |
9.6 (49.3) |
9.0 (48.2) |
6.7 (44.1) |
1.6 (34.9) |
−4.8 (23.4) |
−8.8 (16.2) |
0.8 (33.4) |
Record low °C (°F) | −19.5 (−3.1) |
−15.5 (4.1) |
−13.1 (8.4) |
−9.3 (15.3) |
−5.2 (22.6) |
0.1 (32.2) |
2.6 (36.7) |
0.2 (32.4) |
−1.8 (28.8) |
−7.4 (18.7) |
−14.0 (6.8) |
−20.2 (−4.4) |
−20.2 (−4.4) |
Average precipitation mm (inches) | 1.8 (0.07) |
4.0 (0.16) |
13.3 (0.52) |
28.0 (1.10) |
56.6 (2.23) |
127.0 (5.00) |
132.2 (5.20) |
115.6 (4.55) |
100.6 (3.96) |
35.7 (1.41) |
5.9 (0.23) |
1.7 (0.07) |
622.4 (24.5) |
Average relative humidity (%) | 33 | 35 | 41 | 50 | 56 | 67 | 71 | 72 | 73 | 63 | 46 | 37 | 54 |
Source: China Meteorological Data Service Center |
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