# Baingoin County

Baingoin County (Tibetan: དཔལ་མགོན་རྫོང་།; Chinese: 班戈县), formerly Namru Dzong (Tibetan: གནམ་རུ་རྫོང), is a county within Nagqu of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
Baingoin County got the name from the Baingoin Co (Bangor Co) which is a lake in center of the county. The county lies between lakes Namtso and Siling.

## Administrative divisions

The county is divided into 4 towns and 6 townships:
| Name | Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | location |
| Towns ||||||
| Phukpa Town | 普保镇 | Pǔbǎo zhèn | ཕུག་པ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | phug pa grong rdal | 31°24′N 90°00′E﻿ / ﻿31.4°N 90.0°E﻿ / 31.4; 90.0 |
| Bella Town | 北拉镇 | Běilā zhèn | བལ་ལ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | bal la grong rdal | 31°24′N 90°48′E﻿ / ﻿31.4°N 90.8°E﻿ / 31.4; 90.8 |
| Dechen Town | 德庆镇 | Déqìng zhèn | བདེ་ཆེན་གྲོང་རྡལ། | sde chen grong rdal | 30°30′N 90°06′E﻿ / ﻿30.5°N 90.1°E﻿ / 30.5; 90.1 |
| Jakhyung Town | 佳琼镇 | Jiāqióng zhèn | བྱ་ཁྱུང་གྲོང་རྡལ། | bya khyung grong rdal | 31°36′N 90°36′E﻿ / ﻿31.6°N 90.6°E﻿ / 31.6; 90.6 |
| Townships ||||||
| Nyima Township | 尼玛乡 | Nímǎ xiāng | ཉི་མ་ཤང་། | nyi ma shang | 31°06′N 91°00′E﻿ / ﻿31.1°N 91.0°E﻿ / 31.1; 91.0 |
| Boqê Township | 保吉乡 | Bǎojí xiāng | སྤོ་ཆེ་ཤང་། | spo che shang | 31°00′N 90°12′E﻿ / ﻿31.0°N 90.2°E﻿ / 31.0; 90.2 |
| Qinglung Township | 青龙乡 | Qīnglóng xiāng | ཕྱིང་ལུང་ཤང་། | phying lung shang | 31°12′N 90°36′E﻿ / ﻿31.2°N 90.6°E﻿ / 31.2; 90.6 |
| Machen Township | 马前乡 | Mǎqián xiāng | མ་ཆེན་ཤང་། | ma chen shang | 31°36′N 90°12′E﻿ / ﻿31.6°N 90.2°E﻿ / 31.6; 90.2 |
| Mentang Township (Mentang Raktsek) | 门当乡 | Méndāng xiāng | མན་ཐང་ཤང་། | man thang shang | 31°24′N 89°42′E﻿ / ﻿31.4°N 89.7°E﻿ / 31.4; 89.7 |
| Xênkyêr Township | 新吉乡 | Xīnjí xiāng | ཤི་འཁྱེར་ཤང་། | shi 'khyer shang | 30°36′N 89°48′E﻿ / ﻿30.6°N 89.8°E﻿ / 30.6; 89.8 |

## Climate

Climate data for Baingoin, elevation 4,700 m (15,400 ft), (1991–2020 normals) :
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 9.4 (48.9) | 9.5 (49.1) | 14.0 (57.2) | 14.2 (57.6) | 19.7 (67.5) | 23.2 (73.8) | 22.5 (72.5) | 20.6 (69.1) | 19.9 (67.8) | 17.2 (63.0) | 11.6 (52.9) | 15.1 (59.2) | 23.2 (73.8) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | −3.9 (25.0) | −2.0 (28.4) | 1.6 (34.9) | 5.8 (42.4) | 10.1 (50.2) | 14.6 (58.3) | 15.2 (59.4) | 14.4 (57.9) | 12.6 (54.7) | 6.8 (44.2) | 1.3 (34.3) | −1.9 (28.6) | 6.2 (43.2) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −10.0 (14.0) | −7.8 (18.0) | −4.3 (24.3) | −0.5 (31.1) | 3.7 (38.7) | 8.2 (46.8) | 9.4 (48.9) | 8.8 (47.8) | 6.5 (43.7) | 0.5 (32.9) | −5.1 (22.8) | −8.3 (17.1) | 0.1 (32.2) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −16.3 (2.7) | −13.7 (7.3) | −10.1 (13.8) | −6.3 (20.7) | −2.1 (28.2) | 2.6 (36.7) | 4.6 (40.3) | 4.1 (39.4) | 1.8 (35.2) | −4.7 (23.5) | −10.9 (12.4) | −14.8 (5.4) | −5.5 (22.1) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −42.9 (−45.2) | −37.6 (−35.7) | −30.5 (−22.9) | −19.6 (−3.3) | −15.2 (4.6) | −7.7 (18.1) | −6.6 (20.1) | −4.6 (23.7) | −9.2 (15.4) | −21.7 (−7.1) | −39.4 (−38.9) | −42.7 (−44.9) | −42.9 (−45.2) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 2.6 (0.10) | 2.3 (0.09) | 3.7 (0.15) | 6.5 (0.26) | 25.4 (1.00) | 59.8 (2.35) | 92.2 (3.63) | 83.5 (3.29) | 56.0 (2.20) | 10.3 (0.41) | 2.2 (0.09) | 1.9 (0.07) | 346.4 (13.64) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 3.9 | 3.7 | 4.5 | 6.9 | 12.3 | 17.2 | 21.0 | 20.3 | 16.6 | 6.0 | 2.6 | 2.7 | 117.7 |
| Average snowy days | 6.1 | 6.0 | 8.2 | 10.9 | 16.3 | 7.9 | 0.8 | 1.3 | 7.4 | 8.7 | 4.4 | 4.7 | 82.7 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 30 | 28 | 29 | 36 | 46 | 55 | 63 | 65 | 61 | 43 | 33 | 29 | 43 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 227.3 | 210.3 | 241.3 | 246.9 | 262.2 | 239.3 | 202.7 | 195.2 | 220.2 | 261.5 | 247.5 | 240.7 | 2,795.1 |
| Percent possible sunshine | 70 | 67 | 64 | 63 | 61 | 57 | 47 | 48 | 60 | 75 | 79 | 77 | 64 |
| Source 1: China Meteorological Administration ||||||||||||||
| Source 2: Météo Climat (extremes) ||||||||||||||