# Dêgê County

Dêgê County (Tibetan: སྡེ་དགེ་རྫོང་།; Chinese: 德格县) is a county in southern China, which was formerly one of the Kham region's five independent kingdoms - the Kingdom of Derge - but is now administered as a county in Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in far northwestern Sichuan, China, bordering the Tibet Autonomous Region to the west. Its county seat is the town of Derge.

## Governance

The primary law enforcement agency in Dêgê County is the Dêgê County Public Security Bureau.

## Administrative divisions

Dêgê County is divided into 10 towns and 13 townships:
| Name | Simplified Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | Administrative division code |
| Towns ||||||
| Goinqên Town (Gengqing, Derge) | 更庆镇 | Gēngqìng Zhèn | དགོན་ཆེན་ཀྲེན། | dgon chen kren | 513330100 |
| Manikaingo Town (Manigango) | 马尼干戈镇 | Mǎnígāngē Zhèn | མ་ཎི་གན་འགོ་ཀྲེན། | ma ṇi gan 'go kren | 513330101 |
| Zogqên town [zh] (Zhuqing) | 竹庆镇 | Zhúqìng Zhèn | རྫོགས་ཆེན་ཀྲེན། | rdzogs chen kren | 513330102 |
| Aqug Town (Axu) | 阿须镇 | Āxū Zhèn | ཨ་ཕྱུག་ཀྲེན། | a phyug kren | 513330103 |
| Chowa town [zh] (Cuo'a) | 错阿镇 | Cuò'ā Zhèn | ཁྲོ་བ་ཀྲེན། | khro ba kren | 513330105 |
| Mainxor town [zh] (Maixiu) | 麦宿镇 | Màixiǔ Zhèn | སྨན་ཤོར་གྲོང་རྡལ། | sman shor grong rdal | 513330106 |
| Daggoin town [zh] (Dagun) | 打滚镇 | Dǎgǔn Zhèn | སྟག་དགོན་གྲོང་རྡལ། | stag dgon grong rdal | 513330107 |
| Jagra town [zh] (Gongya) | 龚垭镇 | Gōngyā Zhèn | ལྕགས་ར་གྲོང་རྡལ། | lcags ra grong rdal | 513330108 |
| Wointog town [zh] (Wentuo) | 温拖镇 | Wēntuō Zhèn | དབོན་ཐོག་གྲོང་རྡལ། | dbon thog grong rdal | 513330109 |
| Zawarma town [zh] (Zhongzhake) | 中扎科镇 | Zhōngzhākē Zhèn | རྫ་བར་མ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | rdza bar ma grong rdal | 513330110 |
| Townships ||||||
| Hyoba Township [zh] (Yueba, Yoba) | 岳巴乡 | Yuèbā Xiāng | ཧྱོ་པ་ཤང་། | hyo pa shang | 513330202 |
| Palpung Township (Waibung, Babang) | 八帮乡 | Bābāng Xiāng | དབལ་སྤུངས་ཤང་། | dbal spungs shang | 513330203 |
| Bêwar Township (Baiya) | 白垭乡 | Báiyā Xiāng | དཔེ་ཝར་ཤང་། | dpe war shang | 513330205 |
| Woinbodoi Township [zh] (Wangbuding) | 汪布顶乡 | Wāngbùdǐng Xiāng | དབོན་པོ་སྟོད་ཤང་། | dbon po stod shang | 513330206 |
| Korlodo Township [zh] (Keluodong) | 柯洛洞乡 | Kēluòdòng Xiāng | འཁོར་ལོ་མདོ་ཤང་། | 'khor lo mdo shang | 513330207 |
| Karsumdo Township [zh] (Kasongdu) | 卡松渡乡 | Kǎsōngdù Xiāng | མཁར་སུམ་མདོ་ཤང་། | mkhar sum mdo shang | 513330208 |
| Goloin Township (Enan) | 俄南乡 | Énán Xiāng | མགོ་ལོན་ཤང་། | mgo lon shang | 513330209 |
| Gusi Township [zh] (Gosu, Ezhi) | 俄支乡 | Ézhī Xiāng | འགུ་ཟི་ཤང་། | 'gu zi shang | 513330211 |
| Yilhung Township [zh] (Yulong) | 玉隆乡 | Yùlóng Xiāng | ཡིད་ལྷུང་ཤང་། | yid lhung shang | 513330213 |
| Ragor Township [zh] (Rangu) | 上燃姑乡 | Rángū Xiāng | ར་སྐོར་གོང་མ། | ra skor gong ma | 513330216 |
| Nyagug Township [zh] (Niangu) | 年古乡 | Niángǔ Xiāng | ཉ་འགུག་ཤང་། | nya 'gug shang | 513330219 |
| Lamdo Township [zh] (Langduo) | 浪多乡 | Làngduō Xiāng | ལམ་མདོ་ཤང་། | lam mdo shang | 513330220 |
| Yarting Township [zh] (Yadêng, Yading) | 亚丁乡 | Yàdīng Xiāng | ཡར་དིང་ཤང་། | yar ding shang | 513330223 |

## National priority protected site

Two National priority protected sites are located in Dege County
* Derge Parkhang, added to list on 1996 as part of the 4th Batch of National Priority Protected Sites [zh].
* Palpung Monastery, added to list on 2013 as part of the 7th Batch of National Priority Protected Sites [zh]

## Transport

* China National Highway 317

## Climate

Climate data for Dêgê, elevation 3,184 m (10,446 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) | 22.6 (72.7) | 21.6 (70.9) | 25.6 (78.1) | 27.3 (81.1) | 28.5 (83.3) | 32.2 (90.0) | 31.4 (88.5) | 30.3 (86.5) | 29.8 (85.6) | 26.4 (79.5) | 22.4 (72.3) | 19.7 (67.5) | 32.2 (90.0) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 7.8 (46.0) | 10.0 (50.0) | 12.6 (54.7) | 15.9 (60.6) | 19.5 (67.1) | 21.8 (71.2) | 23.1 (73.6) | 23.0 (73.4) | 20.6 (69.1) | 16.2 (61.2) | 12.2 (54.0) | 8.5 (47.3) | 15.9 (60.7) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −1.8 (28.8) | 1.0 (33.8) | 4.2 (39.6) | 7.6 (45.7) | 11.1 (52.0) | 13.8 (56.8) | 15.0 (59.0) | 14.5 (58.1) | 12.1 (53.8) | 7.4 (45.3) | 2.3 (36.1) | −1.6 (29.1) | 7.1 (44.8) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −8.5 (16.7) | −5.7 (21.7) | −2.2 (28.0) | 1.3 (34.3) | 5.0 (41.0) | 8.6 (47.5) | 9.9 (49.8) | 9.4 (48.9) | 7.2 (45.0) | 2.0 (35.6) | −4.0 (24.8) | −8.1 (17.4) | 1.2 (34.2) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −19.5 (−3.1) | −15.5 (4.1) | −13.1 (8.4) | −9.3 (15.3) | −5.2 (22.6) | 0.1 (32.2) | 2.6 (36.7) | 0.2 (32.4) | −1.8 (28.8) | −7.4 (18.7) | −14.0 (6.8) | −20.2 (−4.4) | −20.2 (−4.4) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 1.8 (0.07) | 4.2 (0.17) | 13.2 (0.52) | 28.5 (1.12) | 60.6 (2.39) | 134.3 (5.29) | 135.8 (5.35) | 116.6 (4.59) | 107.0 (4.21) | 37.2 (1.46) | 6.2 (0.24) | 1.6 (0.06) | 647 (25.47) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 2.1 | 4.1 | 8.4 | 12.8 | 18.0 | 21.8 | 20.0 | 17.8 | 18.7 | 12.6 | 3.6 | 2.0 | 141.9 |
| Average snowy days | 4.2 | 7.7 | 10.6 | 5.0 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0 | 0.1 | 2.9 | 4.6 | 3.5 | 39.3 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 33 | 35 | 41 | 49 | 55 | 66 | 69 | 69 | 71 | 63 | 45 | 37 | 53 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 122.6 | 117.8 | 135.5 | 140.4 | 146.9 | 136.1 | 150.1 | 147.7 | 141.0 | 140.7 | 140.5 | 135.7 | 1,655 |
| Percent possible sunshine | 38 | 37 | 36 | 36 | 34 | 32 | 35 | 36 | 39 | 40 | 45 | 44 | 38 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration ||||||||||||||