# Zêkog County

Zêkog County (Tibetan: རྩེ་ཁོག་རྫོང; Chinese: 泽库县) is the second largest administrative subdivision by area within Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in eastern Qinghai Province, China, bordering Gansu to the east. The county has an area of 6,658 square kilometres or 2,571 square miles and a population of ~50,000 (2001), mainly Tibetan. The county seat is the town of Chak Qu, whose altitude is approximately 3,700 metres or 12,100 feet above sea level.

## Administrative divisions

Zêkog County is made up of 4 towns and 3 townships:
| Name | Simplified Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | Administrative division code |
| Towns ||||||
| Zêkog Town (Zêqu, Chak Qu, Zequ) | 泽曲镇 | Zéqǔ Zhèn | རྩེ་ཆུ་གྲོང་བརྡལ། | rtse chu grong brdal | 632323100 |
| Mêxü Town (Maixiu) | 麦秀镇 | Màixiù Zhèn | དམེ་ཤུལ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | dme shul grong rdal | 632323101 |
| Hor Town (Heri) | 和日镇 | Hérì Zhèn | ཧོར་གྲོང་རྡལ། | hor grong rdal | 632323102 |
| Nyinqug Town (Nyinxug, Ningxiu) | 宁秀镇 | Níngxiù Zhèn | ཉིན་ཤུག་གྲོང་རྡལ། | nyin shug grong rdal | 632323103 |
| Townships ||||||
| Poingya Township (Wangjia) | 王加乡 | Wángjiā Xiāng | བོན་བརྒྱ་ཞང་། | rtse chu grong brdal | 632323202 |
| Jisa Township (Xibusha) | 西卜沙乡 | Xībùshā Xiāng | དཔྱི་ས་ཞང་། | dpyi sa zhang | 632323203 |
| Dogarmo Township (Duohemao) | 多禾茂乡 | Duōhémào Xiāng | རྡོ་དཀར་མོ་ཞང་། | rdo dkar mo zhang | 632323204 |

## Climate

Zêkog County has an alpine climate (Köppen ETH) due to very high elevation.
Climate data for Zêkog County, elevation 3,663 m (12,018 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) | 10.7 (51.3) | 12.3 (54.1) | 16.5 (61.7) | 21.6 (70.9) | 21.4 (70.5) | 22.8 (73.0) | 25.2 (77.4) | 23.2 (73.8) | 22.9 (73.2) | 19.0 (66.2) | 12.2 (54.0) | 10.9 (51.6) | 25.2 (77.4) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | −2.6 (27.3) | 0.2 (32.4) | 3.7 (38.7) | 8.1 (46.6) | 11.1 (52.0) | 13.6 (56.5) | 16.0 (60.8) | 15.9 (60.6) | 12.5 (54.5) | 7.1 (44.8) | 2.5 (36.5) | −1.3 (29.7) | 7.2 (45.0) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −12.9 (8.8) | −9.7 (14.5) | −5.0 (23.0) | 0.3 (32.5) | 4.1 (39.4) | 7.5 (45.5) | 9.7 (49.5) | 9.2 (48.6) | 5.5 (41.9) | −0.2 (31.6) | −6.8 (19.8) | −11.7 (10.9) | −0.8 (30.5) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −20.7 (−5.3) | −17.6 (0.3) | −12.1 (10.2) | −6.2 (20.8) | −1.7 (28.9) | 2.2 (36.0) | 4.2 (39.6) | 3.8 (38.8) | 0.8 (33.4) | −5.2 (22.6) | −13.3 (8.1) | −19.2 (−2.6) | −7.1 (19.2) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −35.0 (−31.0) | −31.9 (−25.4) | −28.3 (−18.9) | −19.0 (−2.2) | −17.3 (0.9) | −6.2 (20.8) | −8.7 (16.3) | −7.6 (18.3) | −10.5 (13.1) | −19.0 (−2.2) | −27.1 (−16.8) | −31.1 (−24.0) | −35.0 (−31.0) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 3.2 (0.13) | 4.7 (0.19) | 11.3 (0.44) | 24.6 (0.97) | 58.7 (2.31) | 82.9 (3.26) | 109.1 (4.30) | 90.7 (3.57) | 78.1 (3.07) | 31.2 (1.23) | 3.9 (0.15) | 1.4 (0.06) | 499.8 (19.68) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 4.2 | 5.4 | 7.5 | 10.4 | 16.2 | 18.0 | 17.8 | 16.6 | 16.8 | 12.4 | 3.4 | 2.1 | 130.8 |
| Average snowy days | 5.5 | 7.6 | 9.9 | 13.2 | 12.4 | 2.9 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 4.0 | 13.0 | 5.2 | 3.2 | 77.8 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 49 | 48 | 50 | 57 | 66 | 72 | 75 | 76 | 77 | 70 | 56 | 47 | 62 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 219.2 | 200.3 | 229.6 | 237.4 | 221.0 | 196.0 | 212.3 | 212.8 | 172.7 | 203.4 | 227.2 | 229.4 | 2,561.3 |
| Percent possible sunshine | 70 | 64 | 61 | 60 | 51 | 45 | 48 | 52 | 47 | 59 | 74 | 76 | 59 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration ||||||||||||||