# Danba County

Rongzhag (Tibetan: རོང་བྲག, ZYPY: Rongzhag Zong), also Danba (Chinese: 丹巴; pinyin: Dānbā) is a county of the eastern Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in western Sichuan Province, China. The county seat is the town of Chaggo.

## Governance

Law enforcement in the county is provided by the Danba County Public Security Bureau. It contains one traffic police unit and a police post in Gya'gyü Town.
The People's Armed Police Danba County Company provides paramilitary law enforcement and disaster relief in the county.
Firefighting and rescue duties in the county are provided by the Danba County Fire and Rescue Battalion.

## Administrative divisions

Rongzhag County is divided into 9 towns and 2 townships:
| Name | Simplified Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | Administrative division code |
| Towns ||||||
| Chaggo Town (Zhaggo, Zhanggu) | 章谷镇 | Zhānggǔ Zhèn | བྲག་འགོ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | brag 'go grong rdal | 513323100 |
| Trateng Town (Chagdêng, Pagdêng, Badi) | 巴底镇 | Bādǐ Zhèn | བྲག་སྟེང་གྲོང་རྡལ། | brag steng grong rdal | 513323101 |
| Geshitsa Town (Gêxêcha, Geshizha, Geshiza) | 革什扎镇 | Géshízhā Zhèn | དགེ་བཤེས་གྲྭ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | dge bshes grwa grong rdal | 513323102 |
| Donggu Town | 东谷镇 | Dōnggǔ Zhèn | སྟོང་དགུ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | stong dgu grong rdal | 513323103 |
| Mudori Town (Mo'erduo) | 墨尔多山镇 | Mò'ěrduōshān Zhèn | དམུ་རྡོ་རི་གྲོང་རྡལ། | dmu rdo ri grong rdal | 513323104 |
| Gya'gyü Town (Jiaju) | 甲居镇 | Jiǎjū Zhèn | བརྒྱ་བརྒྱུད་གྲོང་རྡལ། | brgya brgyud grong rdal | 513323105 |
| Guzong Town (Gêxê, Gezong) | 格宗镇 | Gézōng Zhèn | དགུ་རྫོང་གྲོང་རྡལ། | dgu rdzong grong rdal | 513323106 |
| Golung Town (Banshanmen) | 半扇门镇 | Bànshànmén Zhèn | སྒོ་ལུང་གྲོང་རྡལ། | sgo lung grong rdal | 513323107 |
| Dando Town (Dandong) | 丹东镇 | Dāndōng Zhèn | མདའ་མདོ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | mda' mdo grong rdal | 513323108 |
| Townships ||||||
| Bawang Township | 巴旺乡 | Bāwàng Xiāng | དཔའ་དབང་ཤང་། | dpa' dbang shang | 513323201 |
| Sogbo Township (Suopo) | 梭坡乡 | Suōpō Xiāng | སོག་པོ་ཤང་། | sog po shang | 513323209 |
| Qugsug Township (Taipingqiao) | 太平桥乡 | Tàipíngqiáo Xiāng | ཕྱུག་ཟུག་ཤང་། | phyug zug shang | 513323213 |

## National Priority Protected Sites

Danba County is home to two National Priority Protected Sites:
* Danba County ancient stone towers [zh], added in 2006 as part of the 6th Batch of National Priorty Protected Sites [zh]
* Han'eyi neolithic relics and Han tombs [zh], added in 2013 as part of the 7th Batch of National Priority Protected Sites [zh]

## Climate

Climate data for Danba, elevation 1,950 m (6,400 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) | 23.2 (73.8) | 28.8 (83.8) | 33.5 (92.3) | 36.5 (97.7) | 36.8 (98.2) | 37.2 (99.0) | 37.7 (99.9) | 39.0 (102.2) | 35.4 (95.7) | 32.0 (89.6) | 25.3 (77.5) | 19.2 (66.6) | 39.0 (102.2) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 11.5 (52.7) | 15.6 (60.1) | 20.2 (68.4) | 24.3 (75.7) | 26.5 (79.7) | 27.3 (81.1) | 29.1 (84.4) | 29.5 (85.1) | 25.8 (78.4) | 21.2 (70.2) | 17.0 (62.6) | 11.9 (53.4) | 21.7 (71.0) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 4.8 (40.6) | 8.2 (46.8) | 12.3 (54.1) | 16.1 (61.0) | 18.7 (65.7) | 20.2 (68.4) | 21.9 (71.4) | 22.2 (72.0) | 19.1 (66.4) | 14.8 (58.6) | 9.8 (49.6) | 5.3 (41.5) | 14.5 (58.0) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −0.9 (30.4) | 2.2 (36.0) | 6.3 (43.3) | 9.9 (49.8) | 12.9 (55.2) | 15.3 (59.5) | 17.1 (62.8) | 17.2 (63.0) | 14.6 (58.3) | 10.3 (50.5) | 4.4 (39.9) | −0.3 (31.5) | 9.1 (48.4) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −7.0 (19.4) | −5.2 (22.6) | −3.4 (25.9) | 2.3 (36.1) | 4.7 (40.5) | 8.4 (47.1) | 10.8 (51.4) | 10.1 (50.2) | 7.3 (45.1) | 1.9 (35.4) | −3.4 (25.9) | −7.2 (19.0) | −7.2 (19.0) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 0.8 (0.03) | 2.0 (0.08) | 14.5 (0.57) | 45.4 (1.79) | 86.8 (3.42) | 136.3 (5.37) | 106.5 (4.19) | 86.1 (3.39) | 103.4 (4.07) | 48.8 (1.92) | 6.6 (0.26) | 1.0 (0.04) | 638.2 (25.13) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 1.1 | 1.8 | 6.4 | 11.9 | 18.1 | 22.2 | 18.6 | 15.5 | 17.5 | 13.5 | 3.9 | 0.8 | 131.3 |
| Average snowy days | 1.7 | 1.3 | 0.6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 4.2 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 43 | 40 | 41 | 46 | 53 | 65 | 66 | 61 | 65 | 62 | 54 | 48 | 54 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 154.5 | 164.2 | 196.2 | 203.8 | 204.3 | 165.9 | 172.2 | 179.0 | 165.5 | 174.0 | 158.3 | 139.1 | 2,077 |
| Percent possible sunshine | 48 | 52 | 52 | 52 | 48 | 39 | 40 | 44 | 45 | 50 | 50 | 44 | 47 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration ||||||||||||||