# Têwo County

Têwo County (Tibetan: ཐེ་བོ་རྫོང་།; Chinese: 迭部县) is a county in the south of Gansu province of China, bordering Sichuan province to the south. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Gannan Prefecture. Its postal code is 747400, and in 1999 its population was 55,568 people.
The Lazikou Pass, a mountain pass of strategical significance during the Long March, is located in Têwo County.

## Administrative divisions

Têwo County is divided to 5 towns and 6 townships.
| Name | Simplified Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | Administrative division code |
| Towns ||||||
| Dêngga Town (Dianga) | 电尕镇 | Diàngā Zhèn | སྟེང་ཀ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | steng ka grong rdal | 623024100 |
| Yiwa Town | 益哇镇 | Yìwā Zhèn | གཡི་བ་གྲོང་རྡལ་། | gyi ba grong rdal | 623024101 |
| Wangsang Town (Wangzang) | 旺藏镇 | Wàngzàng Zhèn | དབང་བཟང་གྲོང་རྡལ། | dbang bzang grong rdal | 623024102 |
| Lasargag Town (Lazikou) | 腊子口镇 | Làzǐkǒu Zhèn | ལ་གཟར་འགག་གྲོང་རྡལ། | la gzar ʼgag grong rdal | 623024103 |
| Ritang Town (Luoda) | 洛大镇 | Luòdà Zhèn | རི་དྭངས་གྲོང་རྡལ། | ri dwangs grong rdal | 623024104 |
| Townships ||||||
| Kaba Township | 卡坝乡 | Kǎbà Xiāng | ཁ་པ་ཤང་། | kha pa shang | 623024201 |
| Dara Township (Dagra, Dala) | 达拉乡 | Dálā Xiāng | རྟ་ར་ཤང་། | rta ra shang | 623024202 |
| Nyinngo Township (Ni'ao) | 尼傲乡 | Ní'ào Xiāng | ཉིན་ངོ་ཤང་། | nyin ngo shang | 623024203 |
| Axa Township (Axia) | 阿夏乡 | Āxià Xiāng | འ་ཞ་ཤང་། | ʼa zha shang | 623024205 |
| Dora Township (Duo'er) | 多儿乡 | Duō'ér Xiāng | རྡོ་ར་ཤང་། | rdo ra shang | 623024206 |
| Qangbab Township (Sangba) | 桑坝乡 | Sāngbà Xiāng | བྱ་འབབ་ཤང་། | bya ʼbab shang | 623024207 |

## Climate

Climate data for Têwo, elevation 2,374 m (7,789 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) | 21.0 (69.8) | 23.6 (74.5) | 28.7 (83.7) | 33.9 (93.0) | 32.7 (90.9) | 33.3 (91.9) | 35.5 (95.9) | 34.5 (94.1) | 32.7 (90.9) | 25.7 (78.3) | 21.7 (71.1) | 17.4 (63.3) | 35.5 (95.9) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 6.7 (44.1) | 10.1 (50.2) | 14.2 (57.6) | 18.5 (65.3) | 20.9 (69.6) | 23.3 (73.9) | 25.7 (78.3) | 25.6 (78.1) | 21.0 (69.8) | 16.0 (60.8) | 12.5 (54.5) | 7.7 (45.9) | 16.8 (62.3) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −3.2 (26.2) | 0.4 (32.7) | 4.6 (40.3) | 9.1 (48.4) | 12.2 (54.0) | 15.2 (59.4) | 17.5 (63.5) | 17.1 (62.8) | 13.4 (56.1) | 8.0 (46.4) | 2.5 (36.5) | −2.4 (27.7) | 7.9 (46.2) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −9.9 (14.2) | −6.4 (20.5) | −2.1 (28.2) | 1.9 (35.4) | 5.6 (42.1) | 9.2 (48.6) | 11.6 (52.9) | 11.4 (52.5) | 8.7 (47.7) | 3.2 (37.8) | −3.8 (25.2) | −9.0 (15.8) | 1.7 (35.1) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −18.9 (−2.0) | −17.8 (0.0) | −17.1 (1.2) | −7.0 (19.4) | −2.9 (26.8) | −0.4 (31.3) | 2.6 (36.7) | 2.6 (36.7) | −2.0 (28.4) | −8.2 (17.2) | −14.1 (6.6) | −19.9 (−3.8) | −19.9 (−3.8) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 3.1 (0.12) | 5.0 (0.20) | 13.9 (0.55) | 37.1 (1.46) | 84.4 (3.32) | 80.9 (3.19) | 104.3 (4.11) | 98.3 (3.87) | 92.8 (3.65) | 48.5 (1.91) | 7.8 (0.31) | 1.4 (0.06) | 577.5 (22.75) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 4.1 | 3.9 | 8.6 | 11.7 | 16.8 | 17.9 | 16.9 | 15.1 | 16.5 | 14.4 | 4.3 | 2.1 | 132.3 |
| Average snowy days | 6.8 | 5.9 | 8.3 | 2.5 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 1.4 | 3.2 | 3.5 | 31.9 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 52 | 51 | 55 | 57 | 64 | 70 | 71 | 71 | 75 | 73 | 62 | 55 | 63 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 199.1 | 181.8 | 203.0 | 203.8 | 201.4 | 180.4 | 200.6 | 199.9 | 149.4 | 161.6 | 194.3 | 199.4 | 2,274.7 |
| Percent possible sunshine | 63 | 58 | 54 | 52 | 46 | 42 | 46 | 49 | 41 | 47 | 63 | 65 | 52 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration ||||||||||||||