Gyantse County

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
Gyantse is located in China
Gyantse
Gyantse
Gyantse (China)
Coordinates: 28°53′45″N 89°37′33″E / 28.89583°N 89.62583°E / 28.89583; 89.62583
CountryChina
Autonomous regionTibet
Prefecture-level cityXigazê
County seatGyantse
Area
 • Total
3,849.23 km2 (1,486.20 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)[1]
 • Total
68,650
 • Density18/km2 (46/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Websitewww.jiangzi.gov.cn
Gyantse County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese江孜县
Traditional Chinese江孜縣
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinJiāngzī Xiàn
Tibetan name
Tibetanརྒྱལ་རྩེ་རྫོང་།
Transcriptions
Wyliergyal rtse rdzong
Tibetan PinyinGyangzê Zong

Gyantse County officially Gyangzê County (Tibetan: རྒྱལ་རྩེ་རྫོང་།; Chinese: 江孜县) is a county of Xigazê in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China. Its main settlement is Gyantse Town known for its monasteries.[2]

Administration divisions

Gyantse County is divided into 1 town and 18 townships.

Name Chinese Hanyu Pinyin Tibetan Wylie
Town
Gyangzê Town
(Gyantse) 		江孜镇 Jiāngzī zhèn རྒྱལ་རྩེ་གྲོང་རྡལ། rgyal rtse grong rdal
Townships
Naröl Township 纳如乡 Nàrú xiāng ན་རོལ་ཤང་། na rol shang
Karmai Township 卡麦乡 Kǎmài xiāng མཁར་སྨད་ཤང་། mkhar smad shang
Kardoi Township 卡堆乡 Kǎduī xiāng མཁར་སྟོད་ཤང་། mkhar stod shang
Tsangkha Township 藏改乡 Zànggǎi xiāng གཙང་ཁ་ཤང་། gtsang kha shang
Rinang Township 日朗乡 Rìlǎng xiāng རི་ནང་ཤང་། ri nang shang
Dagzê Township 达孜乡 Dázī xiāng སྟག་རྩེ་ཤང་། stag rtse shang
Rasog Township 热索乡 Rèsuǒ xiāng ར་སོག་ཤང་། ra sog shang
Drongtsé Township 重孜乡 Chóngzī xiāng འབྲོང་རྩེ་ཤང་། 'brong rtse shang
Lungmar Township 龙马乡 Lóngmǎ xiāng ལུང་དམར་ཤང་། lung dmar shang
Jaggyê Township 加克西乡 Jiākèxī xiāng ལྕགས་སྒྱེ་ཤང་། lcangs skye shang
Tsechen Township 紫金乡 Zǐjīn xiāng རྩེ་ཆེན་ཤང་། rtse chen shang
Jangra Township 江热乡 Jiāngrè xiāng ལྕང་ར་ཤང་། lcang ra shang
Nyangdoi Township 年堆乡 Niánduī xiāng མྱང་སྟོད་ཤང་། myang stod shang
Kangco Township 康卓乡 Kāngzhuó xiāng གངས་མཚོ་ཤང་། gangs mtsho shang
Gyinkar Township 金嘎乡 Jīngā xiāng དཀྱིལ་མཁར་ཤང་། dkyil mkhar shang
Rizhing Township 日星乡 Rìxīng xiāng རི་ཞིང་ཤང་། ri zhing shang
Charing Township 车仁乡 Chērén xiāng ཁྲ་རིང་ཤང་། khra ring shang
Ralung Township 热龙乡 Rèlóng xiāng ར་ལུང་ཤང་། ra lung shang

Climate

Climate data for Gyantse, elevation 4,040 m (13,250 ft), (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–present)
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) 		25.7
(78.3) 		24.6
(76.3) 		21.9
(71.4) 		18.9
(66.0) 		16.1
(61.0) 		28.7
(83.7)
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) 5.9
(42.6) 		7.6
(45.7) 		10.7
(51.3) 		13.9
(57.0) 		17.7
(63.9) 		21.1
(70.0) 		20.5
(68.9) 		19.7
(67.5) 		18.9
(66.0) 		15.4
(59.7) 		10.6
(51.1) 		7.3
(45.1) 		14.1
(57.4)
Daily mean °C (°F) −3.8
(25.2) 		−1.1
(30.0) 		2.6
(36.7) 		5.7
(42.3) 		9.6
(49.3) 		13.2
(55.8) 		13.0
(55.4) 		12.1
(53.8) 		10.8
(51.4) 		6.6
(43.9) 		0.8
(33.4) 		−2.9
(26.8) 		5.6
(42.0)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) −13.1
(8.4) 		−10.1
(13.8) 		−5.8
(21.6) 		−1.9
(28.6) 		2.1
(35.8) 		6.1
(43.0) 		7.4
(45.3) 		6.6
(43.9) 		4.2
(39.6) 		−1.1
(30.0) 		−7.6
(18.3) 		−11.4
(11.5) 		−2.0
(28.3)
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) 0.3
(0.01) 		0.5
(0.02) 		1.7
(0.07) 		7.7
(0.30) 		16.9
(0.67) 		37.7
(1.48) 		89.3
(3.52) 		89.2
(3.51) 		34.7
(1.37) 		3.5
(0.14) 		0.5
(0.02) 		1.8
(0.07) 		283.8
(11.18)
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) 0.4 0.7 1.2 4.0 6.6 10.9 18.8 18.5 10.7 2.1 0.4 0.3 74.6
Average snowy days 0.8 1.1 2.2 5.9 3.2 0.2 0.1 0 0.3 1.4 0.7 0.5 16.4
Average relative humidity (%) 30 30 33 40 46 54 67 70 62 45 38 38 46
Mean monthly sunshine hours 272.2 251.5 276.2 273.1 295.9 273.4 224.6 224.6 244.3 294.0 283.6 280.9 3,194.3
Percentage possible sunshine 83 79 74 70 70 66 53 56 67 84 89 88 73
Source: China Meteorological Administration[3][4] August all time extreme high[5]

References

  1. ^ "日喀则市第七次全国人口普查主要数据公报" (in Chinese). Government of Xigazê. 2021-07-20. Archived from the original on 2021-10-26. Retrieved 2023-08-12.
  2. ^ Croddy, E. (2022). China’s Provinces and Populations: A Chronological and Geographical Survey. Springer International Publishing. p. 698. ISBN 978-3-031-09165-0. Retrieved 2024-03-07.
  3. ^ 中国气象数据网 – WeatherBk Data (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 27 September 2023.
  4. ^ 中国气象数据网 (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 27 September 2023.
  5. ^ "Sina Visitor System" 【高温】今天重庆四川站点包揽高温榜前十，重庆巫溪43.6℃，排名第一，并打破8月上旬最高气温纪录。不止巫溪，今天重庆四川西藏陕西有14个气象站打破8月上旬最高气温纪录，比如西藏拉萨、日喀则、陕西汉中。西藏江孜和四川江城还打破了8月最高气温纪录。今天7个省会直辖市出现高温，郑州距离全年高温日数纪录46天，越来越近。 未来高温天气还会发展增强，华北南部到四川盆地以及江南北部，将是高温核心区。并且在陕西关中，四川东部，重庆多地还会达到40℃以上。热度可能接近或打破同期纪录。总体来看，8月3-6日前后，是本轮高温的巅峰，部分城市报出40℃以上，比如西安8月3-4日42℃，重庆8月5-6日42℃，成都和武汉8月4日39℃，郑州8月5日40℃。 不仅白天气温高，夜温也高。西安报8月4日最低33℃，如果实现将打破纪录。郑州报8月4日最低31℃，也是热得少见。重庆报8月5日最低33℃，也不多见。这样的天气，白天尽量减少不必要的出门，就算是夜跑，也要警惕中暑。 (in Simplified Chinese). weatherman_信欣 on Weibo. Retrieved 2 August 2025.

28°53′45″N 89°37′33″E / 28.89583°N 89.62583°E / 28.89583; 89.62583


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