# Yajiang County

Nyagqu County (Tibetan: ཉག་ཆུ་རྫོང་།, Wylie: nyag chu rdzong, ZYPY: Nyagqu Zong, Nyagchukha, Nyagquka) or Yajiang County (Chinese: 雅江县; pinyin: Yǎjiāng Xiàn), named after Nyagchukha in Tibetan, is a county of the traditional Kham Region of eastern Tibet. It is currently under the administration of the Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, in the west of Sichuan Province, China.

## Administrative divisions

Yajiang County is divided into 6 towns and 10 township.
| Name | Simplified Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | Administrative division code |
| Towns ||||||
| Quka Town (Hekou) | 河口镇 | Hékǒu Zhèn | ཆུ་ཁ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | chu kha grong rdal | 513325100 |
| Garra Town (Gala) | 呷拉镇 | Gālā Zhèn | མགར་ར་གྲོང་རྡལ། | mgar ra grong rdal | 513325101 |
| Golog Town (Xi'eluo) | 西俄洛镇 | Xī'éluò Zhèn | མགོ་ལོག་གྲོང་རྡལ། | mgo log grong rdal | 513325102 |
| Horlung Town (Honglong) | 红龙镇 | Hónglóng Zhèn | ཧོར་ལུང་གྲོང་རྡལ། | hor lung grong rdal | 513325103 |
| Malhaco Town (Marlamco, Malangcuo) | 麻郎措镇 | Málángcuò Zhèn | མ་ལྷ་མཚོ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | ma lha mtsho grong rdal | 513325104 |
| Bosêrxoi Town (Bosihe) | 波斯河镇 | Bōsīhé Zhèn | སྤོ་སེར་ཤོད་གྲོང་རྡལ། | spo ser shod grong rdal | 513325105 |
| Townships ||||||
| Karringbo Township (Bajiaolou) | 八角楼乡 | Bājiǎolóu Xiāng | མཁར་རིང་པོ་ཤང་། | mkhar ring po shang | 513325201 |
| Pugbarong Township (Pubarong) | 普巴绒乡 | Pǔbāróng Xiāng | ཕུགས་པ་རོང་ཤང་། | phugs pa rong shang | 513325202 |
| Chongsum Township (Zhusang) | 祝桑乡 | Zhùsāng Xiāng | གྲོང་གསུམ་ཤང་། | grong gsum shang | 513325203 |
| Mignor Township (Milong) | 米龙乡 | Mǐlóng Xiāng | མིག་ནོར་ཤང་། | mig nor shang | 513325204 |
| Banyugrong Township (Bayirong) | 八衣绒乡 | Bāyīróng Xiāng | སྤ་སྨྱུག་རོང་ཤང་། | spa smyug rong shang | 513325205 |
| Nyayüxab Township (Yayihe) | 牙衣河乡 | Yáyīhé Xiāng | ཉ་ཡུལ་ཞབས་ཤང་། | nya yul zhabs shang | 513325208 |
| Dêca Township (Decha) | 德差乡 | Déchā Xiāng | སྡེ་ཚྭ་ཤང་། | sde tshwa shang | 513325211 |
| Kogla Township (Kela) | 柯拉乡 | Kēlā Xiāng | ཁོག་ལ་ཤང་། | khog la shang | 513325213 |
| Chuka Township (Waduo) | 瓦多乡 | Wǎduō Xiāng | གྲུ་ཁ་ཤང་། | gru kha shang | 513325214 |
| Misang Township (Murong) | 木绒乡 | Mùróng Xiāng | མི་བཟང་ཤང་། | mi bzang shang | 513325215 |

## Climate

Climate data for Yajiang, elevation 2,601 m (8,533 ft), (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–2010) :
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 26.6 (79.9) | 28.1 (82.6) | 33.5 (92.3) | 32.6 (90.7) | 35.8 (96.4) | 35.7 (96.3) | 35.4 (95.7) | 35.4 (95.7) | 33.3 (91.9) | 29.6 (85.3) | 26.1 (79.0) | 23.3 (73.9) | 35.8 (96.4) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 13.8 (56.8) | 16.9 (62.4) | 19.3 (66.7) | 22.0 (71.6) | 25.3 (77.5) | 26.5 (79.7) | 26.6 (79.9) | 26.7 (80.1) | 24.4 (75.9) | 21.1 (70.0) | 16.6 (61.9) | 13.1 (55.6) | 21.0 (69.8) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 2.3 (36.1) | 5.9 (42.6) | 9.3 (48.7) | 12.4 (54.3) | 15.7 (60.3) | 17.4 (63.3) | 17.8 (64.0) | 17.6 (63.7) | 15.3 (59.5) | 11.2 (52.2) | 5.7 (42.3) | 1.4 (34.5) | 11.0 (51.8) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −5.3 (22.5) | −2.3 (27.9) | 1.5 (34.7) | 5.1 (41.2) | 8.7 (47.7) | 12.0 (53.6) | 13.0 (55.4) | 12.8 (55.0) | 10.7 (51.3) | 5.5 (41.9) | −0.9 (30.4) | −5.1 (22.8) | 4.6 (40.4) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −13.4 (7.9) | −9.8 (14.4) | −6.7 (19.9) | −1.5 (29.3) | 1.1 (34.0) | 5.1 (41.2) | 6.1 (43.0) | 5.3 (41.5) | 2.4 (36.3) | −2.4 (27.7) | −7.6 (18.3) | −13.9 (7.0) | −13.9 (7.0) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 0.6 (0.02) | 2.3 (0.09) | 13.3 (0.52) | 38.8 (1.53) | 74.4 (2.93) | 165.0 (6.50) | 173.1 (6.81) | 146.0 (5.75) | 135.1 (5.32) | 39.2 (1.54) | 8.0 (0.31) | 1.5 (0.06) | 797.3 (31.38) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 0.8 | 1.6 | 5.6 | 11.2 | 14.6 | 22.1 | 21.5 | 19.6 | 18.7 | 10.0 | 3.3 | 1.0 | 130 |
| Average snowy days | 1.7 | 1.7 | 1.3 | 0.4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 1.1 | 6.7 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 35 | 33 | 39 | 48 | 54 | 68 | 74 | 72 | 75 | 68 | 55 | 45 | 56 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 117.6 | 156.8 | 176.5 | 172.2 | 188.8 | 161.9 | 156.5 | 167.0 | 154.0 | 171.0 | 143.0 | 86.9 | 1,852.2 |
| Percent possible sunshine | 36 | 50 | 47 | 44 | 45 | 39 | 37 | 41 | 42 | 49 | 45 | 28 | 42 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration ||||||||||||||