# Dêngqên County

Dêngqên County (Tibetan: སྟེང་ཆེན་རྫོང་།; Chinese: 丁青县) is a county of Chamdo City in the east of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.

## Administrative divisions

Dêngqên County is divided in 2 towns and 11 townships.
| Name | Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie |
| Towns |||||
| Dêngqên Town | 丁青镇 | Dīngqīng zhèn | སྟེང་ཆེན་གྲོང་རྡལ། | steng chen grong rdal |
| Trido Town | 尺犊镇 | Chǐdú zhèn | ཁྲི་རྡོ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | khri rdo grong rdal |
| Townships |||||
| Gyangngön Township | 觉恩乡 | Jué'ēn xiāng | གྱང་སྔོན་ཤང་། | gyang sngon shang |
| Sagang Township | 沙贡乡 | Shāgòng xiāng | ས་སྒང་ཤང་། | sa sgang shang |
| Damdoi Township | 当堆乡 | Dāngduī xiāng | གཏམ་སྟོད་ཤང་། | gtam stod shang |
| Sado Township | 桑多乡 | Sāngduō xiāng | ས་མདོ་ཤང་། | sa mdo shang |
| Muta Township | 木塔乡 | Mùtǎ xiāng | དམུ་ཐ་ཤང་། | dmu tha shang |
| Bota Township | 布塔乡 | Bùtǎ xiāng | འབོ་ཐ་ཤང་། | 'bo tha shang |
| Pada Township | 巴达乡 | Bādá xiāng | སྤ་ཟླ་ཤང་། | spa zla shang |
| Gangé Township | 甘岩乡 | Gānyán xiāng | གྭ་ངད་ཤང་། | gwa ngad shang |
| Gata Township | 嘎塔乡 | Gātǎ xiāng | གྭ་ཐ་ཤང་། | gwa tha shang |
| Sertsa Township | 色扎乡 | Sèzhā xiāng | སེར་ཚ་ཤང་། | ser tsha shang |
| Zhezhung Township | 协雄乡 | Xiéxióng xiāng | ཞེ་གཞུང་ཤང་། | zhe gzhung shang |

## Transport

* China National Highway 317

## Climate

Climate data for Dêngqên, elevation 3,873 m (12,707 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) | 16.6 (61.9) | 15.4 (59.7) | 20.2 (68.4) | 20.4 (68.7) | 23.5 (74.3) | 26.3 (79.3) | 26.7 (80.1) | 26.7 (80.1) | 24.4 (75.9) | 21.8 (71.2) | 15.9 (60.6) | 14.8 (58.6) | 26.7 (80.1) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 2.3 (36.1) | 4.3 (39.7) | 7.2 (45.0) | 11.1 (52.0) | 15.2 (59.4) | 18.3 (64.9) | 19.7 (67.5) | 19.5 (67.1) | 17.3 (63.1) | 11.7 (53.1) | 6.8 (44.2) | 3.6 (38.5) | 11.4 (52.6) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −5.7 (21.7) | −3.2 (26.2) | 0.0 (32.0) | 3.8 (38.8) | 7.9 (46.2) | 11.3 (52.3) | 12.8 (55.0) | 12.4 (54.3) | 9.9 (49.8) | 4.4 (39.9) | −1.1 (30.0) | −4.8 (23.4) | 4.0 (39.1) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −12.0 (10.4) | −9.2 (15.4) | −5.4 (22.3) | −1.7 (28.9) | 2.2 (36.0) | 6.1 (43.0) | 7.7 (45.9) | 7.4 (45.3) | 5.0 (41.0) | −0.3 (31.5) | −6.6 (20.1) | −11.1 (12.0) | −1.5 (29.3) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −22.1 (−7.8) | −21.0 (−5.8) | −17.1 (1.2) | −9.1 (15.6) | −6.3 (20.7) | −1.3 (29.7) | 0.2 (32.4) | −1.3 (29.7) | −2.7 (27.1) | −8.8 (16.2) | −18.1 (−0.6) | −23.4 (−10.1) | −23.4 (−10.1) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 3.9 (0.15) | 7.4 (0.29) | 18.1 (0.71) | 31.2 (1.23) | 60.4 (2.38) | 120.4 (4.74) | 134.6 (5.30) | 119.2 (4.69) | 102.1 (4.02) | 50.8 (2.00) | 12.1 (0.48) | 3.5 (0.14) | 663.7 (26.13) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 4.1 | 7.3 | 10.7 | 13.1 | 17.1 | 21.5 | 21.8 | 19.8 | 19.4 | 14.2 | 5.5 | 3.5 | 158 |
| Average snowy days | 7.7 | 11.0 | 15.3 | 17.4 | 7.5 | 1.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 1.0 | 11.8 | 7.9 | 5.0 | 85.9 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 44 | 46 | 51 | 54 | 58 | 65 | 68 | 67 | 69 | 66 | 54 | 47 | 57 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 209.8 | 188.3 | 207.0 | 212.0 | 223.7 | 188.7 | 190.9 | 193.8 | 198.2 | 208.9 | 223.9 | 229.4 | 2,474.6 |
| Percent possible sunshine | 65 | 60 | 55 | 54 | 52 | 44 | 44 | 48 | 54 | 60 | 72 | 73 | 57 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration ||||||||||||||