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Dinggyê County

Coordinates: 28°21′51″N 87°45′57″E / 28.3642°N 87.7659°E / 28.3642; 87.7659
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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
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinDìngjié Xiàn
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutpingding6git3 jyun2
Tibetan name
Tibetanགཏིང་སྐྱེས་རྫོང་།
Transcriptions
Wyliegding skyes rdzong
Tibetan PinyinDinggyê Zong

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]

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

Administration divisions

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Dinggyê County is divided into 3 towns and 7 townships.

Name Chinese Hanyu Pinyin Tibetan Wylie
Towns
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
Townships
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

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  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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