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 | |
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.png) Location of Dinggyê County (red) within Xigazê City (yellow) and the Tibet Autonomous Region | |
  Dinggyê Location of the seat in the Tibet A.R.  Dinggyê Dinggyê (China) | |
| Coordinates (Dinggyê County government): 28°21′51″N 87°45′57″E / 28.3642°N 87.7659°E | |
| Country | China |
| Autonomous region | Tibet |
| Prefecture-level city | Xigazê |
| County seat | Gyankar |
| Area | |
• Total | 5,834.55 km2 (2,252.73 sq mi) |
| Population (2020)[1] | |
• Total | 20,362 |
| • Density | 3.5/km2 (9.0/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Website | www |
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| Simplified Chinese | 定结县 | ||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 定結縣 | ||||||||||
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| Tibetan | གཏིང་སྐྱེས་རྫོང་། | ||||||||||
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It is one of the four counties that comprise the Qomolangma National Nature Preserve (Dinggyê, Tingri, Nyalam, and Kyirong).[3]
Administration divisions
editDinggyê County is divided into 3 towns and 7 townships.
| Name | Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | ||
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| Gyangkar Town | 江嘎镇 | Jiānggā zhèn | རྒྱལ་མཁར་གྲོང་རྡལ། | rgyal mkhar grong rdal | ||
| Zhêntang Town | 陈塘镇 | Chéntáng zhèn | འདྲེན་ཐང་གྲོང་རྡལ། | 'dren thang grong rdal | ||
| Ri'og Town | 日屋镇 | Rìwū zhèn | རི་འོག་གྲོང་རྡལ། | ri 'og grong rdal | ||
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| Qab Township | 确布乡 | Quèbù xiāng | ཆབ་ཤང་། | chab shang | ||
| Dinggyê Township | 定结乡 | Dìngjié xiāng | གདིང་སྐྱེས་ཤང་། | gding skyes shang | ||
| Dozhag Township | 多布扎乡 | Duōbùzhā xiāng | རྡོ་བྲག་ཤང་། | rdo brag shang | ||
| Tashi Nang Township | 扎西岗乡 | Zhāxīgǎng xiāng | བཀྲ་ཤིས་སྣང་ཤང་། | bkra shis snang shang | ||
| Kyungzê Township | 萨尔乡 | Sà'ěr xiāng | ཁྱུང་རྩེ་ཤང་། | khyung rtse shang | ||
| Sar Township | 萨尔乡 | Qióngzī xiāng | གཟར་ཤང་། | gzar shang | ||
| Gojag Township | 郭加乡 | Guōjiā xiāng | ཀོ་ལྕག་ཤང་། | ko lcag shang | ||
References
edit- ^ "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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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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