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.
This article relies too much on references to primary sources. (January 2008) |
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 | |||||||||||||
| Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Dêgê. |
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