# Markam County

Markam County (Tibetan: སྨར་ཁམས་རྫོང་།; Chinese: 芒康县) is a county under the jurisdiction of the Chamdo in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China, bordering the provinces of Sichuan to the east and Yunnan to the south. It is the easternmost county-level division of the Tibet A.R.

## Administrative divisions

Markam County is divided in 2 towns, 13 townships, and 1 ethnic township.
| Name | Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie |
| Towns |||||
| Gartok Town | 嘎托镇 | Gātuō zhèn | སྒར་ཐོག་གྲོང་རྡལ། | sgar thog grong rdal |
| Rongmé Town | 如美镇 | Rúměi zhèn | རོང་སྨད་གྲོང་རྡལ། | rong smad grong rdal |
| Townships |||||
| Zurdeshö Township | 索多西乡 | Suǒduōxī xiāng | ཟུར་བདེ་ཤོད་ཤང་། | zur bde shod shang |
| Bumpa Township | 莽岭乡 | Mǎnglǐng xiāng | འབུམ་པ་ཤང་། | 'bum pa shang |
| Tsangshö Township | 宗西乡 | Zōngxī xiāng | གཙང་ཤོད་ཤང་། | gtsang shod shang |
| Gardo Township | 昂多乡 | Ángduō xiāng | མགར་མདོ་ཤང་། | mgar mdo shang |
| Co'nga Township | 措瓦乡 | Cuòwǎ xiāng | མཚོ་རྔ་ཤང་། | mtsho rnga shang |
| Norné Township | 洛尼乡 | Luòní xiāng | ནོར་གནས་ཤང་། | nor gnas shang |
| Göpo Township | 戈波乡 | Gēbō xiāng | རྒོད་པོ་ཤང་། | rgod po shang |
| Pangda Township | 帮达乡 | Bāngdá xiāng | སྤང་མདའ་ཤང་། | spang mda' shang |
| Jidrong Township | 徐中乡 | Xúzhōng xiāng | བྱིས་གྲོངས་ཤང་། | byis grongs shang |
| Chörten Township | 曲登乡 | Qǔdēng xiāng | མཆོད་རྟེན་ཤང་། | mchod rten shang |
| Mokshö Township | 木许乡 | Mùxǔ xiāng | རྨོག་ཤོད་ཤང་། | rmog shod shang |
| Chupalung Township | 朱巴龙乡 | Zhūbālóng xiāng | གྲུ་པ་ལུང་ཤང་། | gru pa lung shang |
| Chutsenkha Township | 曲孜卡乡 | Qǔzīkǎ xiāng | ཆུ་ཚན་ཁ་ཤང་། | chu tshan kha shang |
| Ethnic township |||||
| Naxi Ethnic Township | 纳西民族乡 | Nàxī mínzúxiāng | འཇང་མི་རིགས་ཤང་། | 'jang mi rigs shang |

## Climate

Climate data for Markam, elevation 3,847 m (12,621 ft), (1991–2020 normals) :
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 4.8 (40.6) | 6.3 (43.3) | 8.8 (47.8) | 11.9 (53.4) | 16.1 (61.0) | 19.1 (66.4) | 18.7 (65.7) | 18.3 (64.9) | 17.2 (63.0) | 13.6 (56.5) | 9.3 (48.7) | 6.4 (43.5) | 12.5 (54.6) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −5.0 (23.0) | −2.9 (26.8) | 0.4 (32.7) | 4.0 (39.2) | 8.3 (46.9) | 11.9 (53.4) | 12.2 (54.0) | 11.7 (53.1) | 9.9 (49.8) | 5.4 (41.7) | −0.1 (31.8) | −3.9 (25.0) | 4.3 (39.8) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −12.9 (8.8) | −10.7 (12.7) | −6.6 (20.1) | −2.5 (27.5) | 1.6 (34.9) | 6.1 (43.0) | 7.8 (46.0) | 7.4 (45.3) | 5.1 (41.2) | −0.7 (30.7) | −7.0 (19.4) | −11.6 (11.1) | −2.0 (28.4) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 1.1 (0.04) | 3.6 (0.14) | 11.0 (0.43) | 22.7 (0.89) | 34.6 (1.36) | 94.7 (3.73) | 175.7 (6.92) | 152.5 (6.00) | 87.8 (3.46) | 17.6 (0.69) | 4.7 (0.19) | 1.6 (0.06) | 607.6 (23.91) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 1.9 | 3.0 | 5.5 | 9.5 | 9.9 | 16.5 | 21.2 | 20.7 | 14.8 | 6.0 | 2.8 | 1.5 | 113.3 |
| Average snowy days | 4.6 | 5.8 | 10.0 | 12.7 | 4.4 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0.6 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 3.1 | 51.4 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 46 | 47 | 52 | 56 | 57 | 64 | 72 | 74 | 72 | 63 | 54 | 47 | 59 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 248.8 | 227.0 | 241.0 | 226.4 | 231.6 | 203.5 | 167.5 | 177.0 | 200.8 | 236.1 | 236.5 | 246.7 | 2,642.9 |
| Percent possible sunshine | 76 | 72 | 64 | 58 | 55 | 49 | 39 | 44 | 55 | 67 | 75 | 78 | 61 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration ||||||||||||||

## Transportation

* China National Highway 214
* China National Highway 318