Danba County
丹巴县 · རོང་བྲག་རྫོང་།
Rongzhag
County
The county seat
The county seat
Location of Danba County (red) within Garzê Prefecture (yellow) and Sichuan.
Location of Danba County (red) within Garzê Prefecture (yellow) and Sichuan.
Danba is located in Sichuan
Danba
Danba
Location of the seat in Sichuan
Danba is located in China
Danba
Danba
Danba (China)
Coordinates: 30°57′N 101°51′E / 30.950°N 101.850°E / 30.950; 101.850
CountryChina
ProvinceSichuan
Autonomous prefectureGarzê
Township-level divisions1 town
14 townships
County seatChaggo
Area
 • Total4,656 km2 (1,798 sq mi)
Elevation
1,799 m (5,902 ft)
Population
 (2020)[1]
 • Total49,872
 • Density11/km2 (28/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Danba County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese丹巴县
Traditional Chinese丹巴縣
Tibetan name
Tibetanརོང་བྲག་རྫོང་།

Rongzhag (Tibetan: རོང་བྲག, ZYPY: Rongzhag Zong), also Danba (Chinese: 丹巴; pinyin: Dānbā) is a county of the eastern Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in western Sichuan Province, China. The county seat is the town of Chaggo.

Administrative divisions

Rongzhag County is divided into 9 towns and 2 townships:

Name Simplified Chinese Hanyu Pinyin Tibetan Wylie Administrative division code
Towns
Chaggo Town
(Zhaggo, Zhanggu)		 章谷镇 Zhānggǔ Zhèn བྲག་འགོ་གྲོང་རྡལ། brag 'go grong rdal 513323100
Trateng Town
(Chagdêng, Pagdêng, Badi)		 巴底镇 Bādǐ Zhèn བྲག་སྟེང་གྲོང་རྡལ། brag steng grong rdal 513323101
Geshitsa Town
(Gêxêcha, Geshizha, Geshiza)		 革什扎镇 Géshízhā Zhèn དགེ་བཤེས་གྲྭ་གྲོང་རྡལ། dge bshes grwa grong rdal 513323102
Donggu Town 东谷镇 Dōnggǔ Zhèn སྟོང་དགུ་གྲོང་རྡལ། stong dgu grong rdal 513323103
Mudori Town
(Mo'erduo)		 墨尔多山镇 Mò'ěrduōshān Zhèn དམུ་རྡོ་རི་གྲོང་རྡལ། dmu rdo ri grong rdal 513323104
Gya'gyü Town
(Jiaju)		 甲居镇 Jiǎjū Zhèn བརྒྱ་བརྒྱུད་གྲོང་རྡལ། brgya brgyud grong rdal 513323105
Guzong Town
(Gêxê, Gezong)		 格宗镇 Gézōng Zhèn དགུ་རྫོང་གྲོང་རྡལ། dgu rdzong grong rdal 513323106
Golung Town
(Banshanmen)		 半扇门镇 Bànshànmén Zhèn སྒོ་ལུང་གྲོང་རྡལ། sgo lung grong rdal 513323107
Dando Town
(Dandong)		 丹东镇 Dāndōng Zhèn མདའ་མདོ་གྲོང་རྡལ། mda' mdo grong rdal 513323108
Townships
Bawang Township 巴旺乡 Bāwàng Xiāng དཔའ་དབང་ཤང་། dpa' dbang shang 513323201
Sogbo Township
(Suopo)		 梭坡乡 Suōpō Xiāng སོག་པོ་ཤང་། sog po shang 513323209
Qugsug Township
(Taipingqiao)		 太平桥乡 Tàipíngqiáo Xiāng ཕྱུག་ཟུག་ཤང་། phyug zug shang 513323213

Climate

Climate data for Danba (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–2010)
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Record high °C (°F) 23.2
(73.8)		 28.8
(83.8)		 33.5
(92.3)		 36.5
(97.7)		 36.8
(98.2)		 37.2
(99.0)		 37.7
(99.9)		 39.0
(102.2)		 35.4
(95.7)		 32.0
(89.6)		 25.3
(77.5)		 19.2
(66.6)		 39.0
(102.2)
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) 11.5
(52.7)		 15.6
(60.1)		 20.2
(68.4)		 24.3
(75.7)		 26.5
(79.7)		 27.3
(81.1)		 29.1
(84.4)		 29.5
(85.1)		 25.8
(78.4)		 21.2
(70.2)		 17.0
(62.6)		 11.9
(53.4)		 21.7
(71.0)
Daily mean °C (°F) 4.8
(40.6)		 8.2
(46.8)		 12.3
(54.1)		 16.1
(61.0)		 18.7
(65.7)		 20.2
(68.4)		 21.9
(71.4)		 22.2
(72.0)		 19.1
(66.4)		 14.8
(58.6)		 9.8
(49.6)		 5.3
(41.5)		 14.5
(58.0)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) −0.9
(30.4)		 2.2
(36.0)		 6.3
(43.3)		 9.9
(49.8)		 12.9
(55.2)		 15.3
(59.5)		 17.1
(62.8)		 17.2
(63.0)		 14.6
(58.3)		 10.3
(50.5)		 4.4
(39.9)		 −0.3
(31.5)		 9.1
(48.4)
Record low °C (°F) −7.0
(19.4)		 −5.2
(22.6)		 −3.4
(25.9)		 2.3
(36.1)		 4.7
(40.5)		 8.4
(47.1)		 10.8
(51.4)		 10.1
(50.2)		 7.3
(45.1)		 1.9
(35.4)		 −3.4
(25.9)		 −7.2
(19.0)		 −7.2
(19.0)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 0.8
(0.03)		 2.0
(0.08)		 14.5
(0.57)		 45.4
(1.79)		 86.8
(3.42)		 136.3
(5.37)		 106.5
(4.19)		 86.1
(3.39)		 103.4
(4.07)		 48.8
(1.92)		 6.6
(0.26)		 1.0
(0.04)		 638.2
(25.13)
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) 1.1 1.8 6.4 11.9 18.1 22.2 18.6 15.5 17.5 13.5 3.9 0.8 131.3
Average snowy days 1.7 1.3 0.6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.1 0.5 4.2
Average relative humidity (%) 43 40 41 46 53 65 66 61 65 62 54 48 54
Mean monthly sunshine hours 154.5 164.2 196.2 203.8 204.3 165.9 172.2 179.0 165.5 174.0 158.3 139.1 2,077
Percent possible sunshine 48 52 52 52 48 39 40 44 45 50 50 44 47
Source: China Meteorological Administration[2][3]

References

  1. ↑ "甘孜州第七次全国人口普查公报（第二号）" (in Chinese). Government of Garzê Prefecture. 2021-06-04.
  2. ↑ 中国气象数据网 – WeatherBk Data (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 13 April 2023.
  3. ↑ 中国气象数据网 (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 13 April 2023.
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