# Sog County

Sog County (Tibetan: སོག་རྫོང་།, Chinese: 索县) is a county under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Nagqu of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.

## Geography

Sog Dzong lies in the extreme western part of the former province of Kham. To its west is Chamdo and to its right Nagchu. Sogdzong is located between the Drachen and Driru, on the Sogchu River. It is the source of Gyalmo Ngulchu.

### Climate

Sog County has a dry-winter alpine subarctic climate (Köppen Dwc) with mild, rainy summers and freezing to frigid, dry winters with large diurnal temperature variations.
Climate data for Sogxian, elevation 4,023 m (13,199 ft), (1991–2020 normals) :
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 14.4 (57.9) | 13.4 (56.1) | 22.0 (71.6) | 22.4 (72.3) | 25.4 (77.7) | 29.0 (84.2) | 31.0 (87.8) | 29.5 (85.1) | 28.0 (82.4) | 22.1 (71.8) | 15.0 (59.0) | 14.6 (58.3) | 31.0 (87.8) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | −0.4 (31.3) | 2.5 (36.5) | 6.3 (43.3) | 10.3 (50.5) | 13.8 (56.8) | 16.9 (62.4) | 19.2 (66.6) | 19.2 (66.6) | 16.2 (61.2) | 10.7 (51.3) | 5.6 (42.1) | 2.0 (35.6) | 10.2 (50.4) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −8.7 (16.3) | −5.2 (22.6) | −1.0 (30.2) | 2.9 (37.2) | 6.5 (43.7) | 10.1 (50.2) | 12.1 (53.8) | 11.7 (53.1) | 8.8 (47.8) | 3.2 (37.8) | −2.8 (27.0) | −7.0 (19.4) | 2.6 (36.6) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −15.9 (3.4) | −12.1 (10.2) | −7.5 (18.5) | −3.4 (25.9) | 0.8 (33.4) | 5.0 (41.0) | 6.9 (44.4) | 6.4 (43.5) | 3.7 (38.7) | −2.2 (28.0) | −9.3 (15.3) | −14.5 (5.9) | −3.5 (25.7) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −31.0 (−23.8) | −28.5 (−19.3) | −22.7 (−8.9) | −15.0 (5.0) | −8.7 (16.3) | −3.6 (25.5) | −4.0 (24.8) | −3.5 (25.7) | −7.0 (19.4) | −18 (0) | −23.2 (−9.8) | −30.4 (−22.7) | −31.0 (−23.8) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 8.3 (0.33) | 7.7 (0.30) | 10.8 (0.43) | 17.3 (0.68) | 66.1 (2.60) | 139.2 (5.48) | 119.8 (4.72) | 104.3 (4.11) | 90.6 (3.57) | 34.2 (1.35) | 4.8 (0.19) | 3.5 (0.14) | 606.6 (23.9) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 5.6 | 5.7 | 7.2 | 10.2 | 18.6 | 23.2 | 20.7 | 19.3 | 20.5 | 11.3 | 3.5 | 2.4 | 148.2 |
| Average snowy days | 7.1 | 7.9 | 10.6 | 13.5 | 10.1 | 1.3 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 1.0 | 10.3 | 5.9 | 4.2 | 72.2 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 44 | 40 | 41 | 47 | 59 | 67 | 68 | 68 | 70 | 61 | 48 | 40 | 54 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 190.5 | 176.7 | 191.9 | 204.2 | 207.3 | 187.3 | 206.7 | 206.8 | 185.2 | 203.9 | 208.4 | 205.6 | 2,374.5 |
| Percent possible sunshine | 59 | 56 | 51 | 52 | 48 | 44 | 48 | 51 | 51 | 59 | 67 | 66 | 54 |
| Source 1: China Meteorological Administration ||||||||||||||
| Source 2: Météo Climat (extremes) ||||||||||||||

## Administrative divisions

Sog County contains 2 towns and 8 townships.
| Name | Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie |
| Towns |||||
| Yakla Town (Sog) | 亚拉镇 | Yàlā zhèn | གཡག་ལ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | g.yag la grong rdal |
| Rongpo Town | 荣布镇 | Róngbù zhèn | རོང་པོ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | rong po grong rdal |
| Townships |||||
| Drogta Township | 若达乡 | Ruòdá xiāng | དབྲོག་རྟ་ཤང་། | dbrog sta shang |
| Gyälchen Township | 加勤乡 | Jiāqín xiāng | རྒྱལ་ཆེན་ཤང་། | rgyal chen shang |
| Thrido Township | 赤多乡 | Chìduō xiāng | ཁྲི་རྡོ་ཤང་། | khri rdo shang |
| Sertam Township | 西昌乡 | Xīchāng xiāng | གསེར་ཊམ་ཤང་། | gser tam shang |
| Chakda Township | 江达乡 | Jiāngdá xiāng | ལྕགས་མདའ་ཤང་། | lcags mda' shang |
| Riwar Township | 热瓦乡 | Rèwǎ xiāng | རི་དབར་ཤང་། | ri dbar shang |
| Garmé Township | 嘎美乡 | Gāměi xiāng | སྒར་སྨད་ཤང་། | sgar smad shang |
| Karmo Township | 嘎木乡 | Gāmù xiāng | དཀར་མོ་ཤང་། | dkar mo shang |

## Economy

Crops include barley, wheat, radish, potatoes, etc. and yaks, sheep, goat, cows, and horses are reared. Nomads move four times annually according to seasons. The county contains Tsangdain Monastery, built in 1667, resembling the Potala Palace.