# Zogang County

Zogong County (Tibetan: མཛོ་སྒང་རྫོང་; Chinese: 左贡县) is a county of the Chamdo Prefecture in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China,

## Administrative divisions

Zogong County is divided in 3 towns and 7 townships.
| Name | Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie |
| Town |||||
| Uyak Town | 旺达镇 | Wàngdá zhèn | དབུ་ཡག་གྲོང་རྡལ། | dbu yag grong rdal |
| Temtok Town | 田妥镇 | Tiántuǒ zhèn | ཐེམ་ཐོག་གྲོང་རྡལ། | them thog grong rdal |
| Oktang Town | 扎玉镇 | Zhāyù zhèn | འོག་ཐང་གྲོང་རྡལ། | 'og thang grong rdal |
| Townships |||||
| Dobbar Township | 东坝乡 | Dōngbà xiāng | སྟོབས་འབར་ཤང་། | stobs 'bar shang |
| Rigo Township | 仁果乡 | Rénguǒ xiāng | རི་མགོ་ཤང་། | ri mgo shang |
| Rabchen Township | 绕金乡 | Ràojīn xiāng | རབ་ཆེན་ཤང་། | rab chen shang |
| Pütog Township | 碧土乡 | Bìtǔ xiāng | བུལ་ཐོག་ཤང་། | bul thog shang |
| Maiyü Township | 美玉乡 | Měiyù xiāng | སྨད་ཡུལ་ཤང་། | smad yul shang |
| Zhonglingka Township (Zhong Lingka) | 中林卡乡 | Zhōnglínkǎ xiāng | ཀྲུང་གླིང་ཁ་ཤང་། | krung gling kha shang |
| Zhalingkha Township | 下林卡乡 | Xiàlínkǎ xiāng | ཞྭ་གླིང་ཁ་ཤང་། | zhwa gling kha shang |

## Climate

Climate data for Zogang, elevation 3,780 m (12,400 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) | 17.2 (63.0) | 15.9 (60.6) | 21.6 (70.9) | 22.2 (72.0) | 25.0 (77.0) | 26.3 (79.3) | 27.9 (82.2) | 25.4 (77.7) | 24.7 (76.5) | 22.0 (71.6) | 17.4 (63.3) | 15.3 (59.5) | 27.9 (82.2) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 4.7 (40.5) | 6.6 (43.9) | 9.3 (48.7) | 12.7 (54.9) | 17.0 (62.6) | 20.6 (69.1) | 20.2 (68.4) | 19.8 (67.6) | 18.5 (65.3) | 14.6 (58.3) | 9.7 (49.5) | 5.9 (42.6) | 13.3 (56.0) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −4.6 (23.7) | −2.2 (28.0) | 1.2 (34.2) | 4.8 (40.6) | 9.2 (48.6) | 13.3 (55.9) | 13.3 (55.9) | 12.6 (54.7) | 11.0 (51.8) | 6.2 (43.2) | 0.2 (32.4) | −4.0 (24.8) | 5.1 (41.2) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −12.1 (10.2) | −9.5 (14.9) | −5.2 (22.6) | −1.1 (30.0) | 3.1 (37.6) | 7.8 (46.0) | 8.7 (47.7) | 8.1 (46.6) | 5.9 (42.6) | 0.3 (32.5) | −6.6 (20.1) | −11.3 (11.7) | −1.0 (30.2) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −23.0 (−9.4) | −19.1 (−2.4) | −17.8 (0.0) | −11.4 (11.5) | −8.0 (17.6) | −1.8 (28.8) | 0.6 (33.1) | 1.2 (34.2) | −1.7 (28.9) | −10.3 (13.5) | −16.7 (1.9) | −22.7 (−8.9) | −23.0 (−9.4) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 0.8 (0.03) | 2.4 (0.09) | 9.5 (0.37) | 17.9 (0.70) | 29.9 (1.18) | 62.2 (2.45) | 139.3 (5.48) | 115.5 (4.55) | 61.3 (2.41) | 14.8 (0.58) | 4.4 (0.17) | 1.4 (0.06) | 459.4 (18.07) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 1.7 | 2.5 | 5.5 | 8.0 | 8.4 | 13.1 | 20.8 | 20.5 | 12.6 | 4.9 | 2.6 | 1.6 | 102.2 |
| Average snowy days | 3.9 | 5.7 | 10.3 | 11.2 | 3.4 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0 | 0.5 | 3.9 | 4.5 | 2.7 | 46.4 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 44 | 44 | 46 | 50 | 51 | 56 | 68 | 70 | 67 | 56 | 50 | 47 | 54 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 184.0 | 181.6 | 211.9 | 204.4 | 215.1 | 189.8 | 156.2 | 158.3 | 166.6 | 189.3 | 180.7 | 180.4 | 2,218.3 |
| Percent possible sunshine | 57 | 57 | 57 | 53 | 51 | 45 | 37 | 39 | 46 | 54 | 57 | 57 | 51 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration ||||||||||||||

## Transportation

* China National Highway 214
* China National Highway 318