# Nagarzê County

Nagarzê County (Tibetan: སྣ་དཀར་རྩེ་རྫོང་།, Chinese: 浪卡子县) is a county of Shannan located in the south-east of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China. The Yarlung Tsangpo river dominates the county. Baidi Township is located in the county.

## History

Historically, the area governed by Nagarzê County was collectively known as "Yangzho" (Tibetan: ཡངས་འབྲོག་, meaning "Upper Pasture").
During the Tang Dynasty (618-907 CE), when the 32nd Tibetan King Songtsen Gampo established the Tibetan Empire, this region was incorporated into the military-administrative division "Yoru" (约茹) and named "Yangzho Kangqing Buren Di Ayu" (Tibetan: ཡངས་འབྲོག་ཁང་ཆེན་བུ་རིན་དི་ཨ་ཡུལ་), meaning "The Five Yak-Nurturing Homelands in the Snowy Upper Pasture". In the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368), the central government appointed leaders of the Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism to administer Tibet, establishing the Yangzho Ten-thousand Household Office (羊卓万户府) within Nagarzê's jurisdiction.
During the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), the Phagmodrupa regime (Chinese: 帕竹政权), supported by the Ming court, established Nagarzê Dzong (浪卡子宗) to govern the Yangzho region.
In 1954, the Tibetan local government divided the area into three administrative units: Nagarzê Dzong, Baid Dzong (白地宗), and Daglung Dzong (打隆宗), all under the jurisdiction of Lhoka Gigu (洛喀基巧, Governor of Southern Tibet). Following democratic reforms in 1959, the Preparatory Committee of the Tibet Autonomous Region merged Langdzê Dzong (朗格则宗) and Baid Dzong into Nagarzê County, while establishing Daglung County (打隆县) through the merger of Daglung and Linggu (岭谷), both placed under Gyantse Prefecture (江孜专区). In February 1964, Daglung County was incorporated into Nagarzê County and transferred to Lhoka Prefecture (山南专区), where it remains administratively today.

## Administrative divisions

Nagarzê County contains 2 towns and 8 townships.
| Name | Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie |
| Towns |||||
| Nagarzê Town | 浪卡子镇 | ‹See RfD› Làngkǎzǐ zhèn | སྣ་དཀར་རྩེ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | ‹See RfD› sna dkar rtse grong rdal |
| Daglung Town | 打隆镇 | ‹See RfD› Dǎlóng zhèn | སྟག་ལུང་གྲོང་རྡལ། | ‹See RfD› stag lung grong rdal |
| Townships |||||
| Chamda Township | 张达乡 | ‹See RfD› Zhāngdá xiāng | གྲམ་མདའ་ཤང་། | ‹See RfD› gram mda' shang |
| Lhülpozhöl Township | 伦布雪乡 | ‹See RfD› Lúnbùxuě xiāng | ལྷུན་པོ་ཞོལ་ཤང་། | ‹See RfD› lhun po zhol shang |
| Doqoi Township | 多却乡 | ‹See RfD› Duōquè xiāng | མདོ་ཆོས་ཤང་། | ‹See RfD› mdo chos shang |
| Puma Jangtang Township | 普玛江塘乡 | ‹See RfD› Pǔmǎjiāngtáng xiāng | ཕུ་མ་བྱང་ཐང་ཤང་། | ‹See RfD› phu ma byang thang shang |
| Ngardrak Township | 阿扎乡 | ‹See RfD› Āzhā xiāng | མངར་བྲག་ཤང་། | ‹See RfD› mngar brag shang |
| Karlung Township | 卡龙乡 | ‹See RfD› Kǎlóng xiāng | མཁར་ལུང་ཤང་། | ‹See RfD› mkhar lung shang |
| Baidi Township | 白地乡 | ‹See RfD› Báidì xiāng | དབལ་དི་ཤང་། | ‹See RfD› dpal di shang |
| Karrêg Township | 卡热乡 | ‹See RfD› Kǎrè xiāng | ཁ་དབྲག་ཤང་། | ‹See RfD› kha dbrag shang |

## Climate

Climate data for Nagarzê, elevation 4,432 m (14,541 ft), (1991–2020 normals) :
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 2.7 (36.9) | 4.0 (39.2) | 6.6 (43.9) | 9.7 (49.5) | 13.3 (55.9) | 16.6 (61.9) | 16.1 (61.0) | 15.4 (59.7) | 14.1 (57.4) | 11.4 (52.5) | 7.3 (45.1) | 4.6 (40.3) | 10.2 (50.3) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −4.3 (24.3) | −2.8 (27.0) | −0.1 (31.8) | 2.7 (36.9) | 6.4 (43.5) | 10.1 (50.2) | 10.4 (50.7) | 9.8 (49.6) | 8.0 (46.4) | 4.0 (39.2) | −0.2 (31.6) | −2.7 (27.1) | 3.4 (38.2) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −11.2 (11.8) | −9.8 (14.4) | −6.4 (20.5) | −3.3 (26.1) | 0.2 (32.4) | 4.3 (39.7) | 6.1 (43.0) | 5.6 (42.1) | 2.9 (37.2) | −2.5 (27.5) | −6.9 (19.6) | −9.5 (14.9) | −2.5 (27.4) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 0.4 (0.02) | 0.9 (0.04) | 2.7 (0.11) | 9.0 (0.35) | 22.3 (0.88) | 49.9 (1.96) | 122.0 (4.80) | 119.3 (4.70) | 50.8 (2.00) | 7.7 (0.30) | 1.3 (0.05) | 0.6 (0.02) | 386.9 (15.23) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 0.5 | 0.9 | 2.7 | 5.8 | 8.7 | 14.4 | 21.5 | 22.2 | 15.4 | 3.1 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 96.3 |
| Average snowy days | 2.1 | 3.8 | 6.9 | 11.3 | 11.3 | 1.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 1.2 | 4.6 | 2.1 | 1.4 | 46.1 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 23 | 25 | 31 | 40 | 48 | 57 | 68 | 71 | 67 | 47 | 30 | 23 | 44 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 258.8 | 235.0 | 257.7 | 250.7 | 257.2 | 228.5 | 179.5 | 176.0 | 204.1 | 267.8 | 272.3 | 269.3 | 2,856.9 |
| Percentage possible sunshine | 79 | 74 | 69 | 65 | 61 | 55 | 42 | 44 | 56 | 76 | 86 | 85 | 66 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration ||||||||||||||

## Gallery

* Lake at Sim La
* Sim La 4330m
* Yak
* Karo La-Glacier
* Karo La 5030m
* Sheep
* Yamdrok Tso
* Yamdrok Lake (labelled as YAMDROG TSHO) (1954)