Gyantse County

Gyantse County officially Gyangzê County (Tibetan: རྒྱལ་རྩེ་རྫོང་།, Wylie: rgyal rtse rdzong, ZYPY: Gyangzê Zong; Chinese: 江孜县; pinyin: Jiāngzī Xiàn) is a county of Xigazê in the Tibet Autonomous Region. Its main settlement is Gyantse Town known for its monasteries.

Gyangzê County
江孜县 • རྒྱལ་རྩེ་རྫོང་།
Gyangtse
County
Location of Gyantse County (red) within Xigazê City (yellow) and the Tibet Autonomous Region
Location of Gyantse County (red) within Xigazê City (yellow) and the Tibet Autonomous Region
Gyantse is located in Tibet
Gyantse
Gyantse
Location of the seat in the Tibet Autonomous Region
Coordinates: 28°53′45″N 89°37′33″E
CountryPeople's Republic of China
Autonomous regionTibet
Prefecture-level cityXigazê
SeatGyantse
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)

Town and townships

1 town and 18 townships:

  • Gyangzê (Gyantse) Town (རྒྱལ་རྩེ་, 江孜镇)
  • Naröl Township (ན་རོལ་, 纳如乡)
  • Kardoi Township (མཁར་སྟོད་, 卡堆乡)
  • Karmai Township (མཁར་སྨད་, 卡麦乡)
  • Tsangkha Township (གཙང་ཁ་, 藏改乡)
  • Rinang Township (རི་ནང་, 日朗乡)
  • Dagzê Township (སྟག་རྩེ་, 达孜乡)
  • Rasog Township (ར་སོག་, 热索乡)
  • Drongtsé Township (འབྲོང་རྩེ་, 重孜乡)
  • Lungmar Township (ལུང་དམར་, 龙马乡)
  • Tsechen Township (རྩེ་ཆེན་, 紫金乡)
  • Jangra Township (ལྕང་ར་, 江热乡)
  • Nyangdoi Township (མྱང་སྟོད་, 年堆乡)
  • Kangco Township (གངས་མཚོ་, 康卓乡)
  • Gyinkar Township (དཀྱིལ་མཁར་, 金嘎乡)
  • Rizhing Township (རི་ཞིང་, 日星乡)
  • Ralung Township (ར་ལུང་, 热龙乡)
  • Charing Township (ཁྲ་རིང་, 车仁乡)
  • Jaggyê Township (ལྕགས་སྒྱེ་, 加克西乡)

Climate
Climate data for Gyangzê (1981−2010)
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Record high °C (°F) 17.0
(62.6)		 17.3
(63.1)		 22.1
(71.8)		 23.2
(73.8)		 25.9
(78.6)		 28.7
(83.7)		 28.2
(82.8)		 25.4
(77.7)		 24.6
(76.3)		 21.9
(71.4)		 18.9
(66.0)		 16.1
(61.0)		 28.7
(83.7)
Average high °C (°F) 6.0
(42.8)		 7.2
(45.0)		 10.5
(50.9)		 13.8
(56.8)		 17.7
(63.9)		 21.0
(69.8)		 20.4
(68.7)		 19.5
(67.1)		 18.5
(65.3)		 15.0
(59.0)		 10.0
(50.0)		 6.6
(43.9)		 13.9
(56.9)
Daily mean °C (°F) −3.9
(25.0)		 −1.5
(29.3)		 2.4
(36.3)		 5.5
(41.9)		 9.3
(48.7)		 12.9
(55.2)		 12.7
(54.9)		 11.8
(53.2)		 10.3
(50.5)		 6.4
(43.5)		 0.6
(33.1)		 −3.4
(25.9)		 5.3
(41.5)
Average low °C (°F) −13.5
(7.7)		 −10.7
(12.7)		 −6.1
(21.0)		 −2.5
(27.5)		 1.5
(34.7)		 5.6
(42.1)		 6.8
(44.2)		 6.3
(43.3)		 3.8
(38.8)		 −1.5
(29.3)		 −7.5
(18.5)		 −11.8
(10.8)		 −2.5
(27.6)
Record low °C (°F) −23.9
(−11.0)		 −20.4
(−4.7)		 −16.2
(2.8)		 −12.6
(9.3)		 −7.6
(18.3)		 −2.3
(27.9)		 0.2
(32.4)		 −1.0
(30.2)		 −3.6
(25.5)		 −11.6
(11.1)		 −14.0
(6.8)		 −21.4
(−6.5)		 −23.9
(−11.0)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 0.4
(0.02)		 0.4
(0.02)		 1.1
(0.04)		 5.6
(0.22)		 15.1
(0.59)		 34.5
(1.36)		 88.2
(3.47)		 90.3
(3.56)		 36.7
(1.44)		 3.7
(0.15)		 0.5
(0.02)		 0.4
(0.02)		 276.9
(10.91)
Average relative humidity (%) 30 29 33 39 46 55 68 72 64 46 40 39 47
Source: China Meteorological Data Service Center[1]

References
  1. 中国地面气候标准值月值(1981-2010) (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Data Service Center. Retrieved 29 November 2022.


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