Deqin County 德钦县 • བདེ་ཆེན་རྫོང་ | |
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 Skyline of county town  Adunzi old town | |
| Etymology: From Tibetanབདེ་ཆེན (dêqên), meaning "auspicious place" | |
 Location of Deqin County (red) within Diqing Prefecture (pink) and Yunnan | |
  Deqin Location in Yunnan | |
| Coordinates:28°12′N98°59′E / 28.200°N 98.983°E /28.200; 98.983 | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Yunnan |
| Autonomous prefecture | Diqing |
| County seat | Deqen |
| Area | |
• Total | 7,596 km2 (2,933 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 3,300 m (10,800 ft) |
| Population (2020 census)[1] | |
• Total | 54,736 |
| • Density | 7.206/km2 (18.66/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Postal code | 674500 |
| Area code | 0887 |
| Website | deqin |
| Deqin County | |||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 德钦县 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 德欽縣 | ||||||
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| Tibetan | བདེ་ཆེན་རྫོང་ | ||||||
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Deqin County[a] iscounty ofDiqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, located in northwestYunnan province, China.
The prefecture's name is derived from the Tibetan wordབདེ་ཆེན (dêqên), which means "auspicious place".[2] In Chinese, the name is written with the characters德 (dé) and钦 (qīn), which mean "benevolence" and "to respect", respectively.
Deqin occupies the northwest corner of Diqing Prefecture, and in latitude has a range of 27° 33'−29° 15' N and in longitude has a range of 98° 36'−99° 33' E, covering an area of 7,596 square kilometres (2,933 sq mi),[3] borderingMarkam County,Zogang County andZayu County of theTibet Autonomous Region to the northwest,Weixi County andGongshan County to the southwest,Batang County andDerong County ofSichuan across the Jinsha River to the northeast, andShangri-La City to the east. It is located in the central part of theHengduan Mountains, and contains the valleys of theSalween,Mekong, andJinsha Rivers.
Being located at an altitude of 3,300 metres (10,800 ft), Deqin lies in the transition between asubtropical highland climate (KöppenCwb) andhumid continental climate (KöppenDwb), which is remarkable for its latitude. Although mean maximum temperatures, as inLhasa andShigatse, stay above freezing year-round, minima are below freezing from November to March, and temperatures average −1.4 °C (29.5 °F) in January, 13.6 °C (56.5 °F) in July, while the annual mean is 6.32 °C (43.4 °F). The town is nonetheless a little warmer during the winter thanShangri-La County to the east despite being slightly higher in elevation, due to its more southerly aspect. Rainfall is concentrated between June and September, accounting for nearly 60% of the annual total of 640 mm (25.2 in); snowfall is rare but still causes major transport problems in the winter. With monthly percent possible sunshine ranging from 29% in July to 62% in December, the county seat receives 1,989 hours of bright sunshine annually, with autumn and winter sunnier than spring and summer.
| Climate data for Deqin County, elevation 3,319 m (10,889 ft), (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1971–2010) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 13.9 (57.0) | 14.1 (57.4) | 17.2 (63.0) | 21.2 (70.2) | 22.9 (73.2) | 26.9 (80.4) | 26.9 (80.4) | 23.9 (75.0) | 23.8 (74.8) | 20.4 (68.7) | 15.8 (60.4) | 14.9 (58.8) | 26.9 (80.4) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 5.9 (42.6) | 6.8 (44.2) | 8.6 (47.5) | 11.8 (53.2) | 15.9 (60.6) | 19.2 (66.6) | 19.2 (66.6) | 19.1 (66.4) | 17.7 (63.9) | 14.3 (57.7) | 10.5 (50.9) | 7.4 (45.3) | 13.0 (55.5) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −1.5 (29.3) | 0.0 (32.0) | 2.3 (36.1) | 5.5 (41.9) | 9.6 (49.3) | 13.2 (55.8) | 13.7 (56.7) | 13.2 (55.8) | 11.8 (53.2) | 7.3 (45.1) | 2.7 (36.9) | −0.5 (31.1) | 6.4 (43.6) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −6.4 (20.5) | −4.7 (23.5) | −1.9 (28.6) | 1.1 (34.0) | 5.0 (41.0) | 9.2 (48.6) | 10.5 (50.9) | 10.2 (50.4) | 8.7 (47.7) | 3.4 (38.1) | −1.8 (28.8) | −5.4 (22.3) | 2.3 (36.2) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −13.3 (8.1) | −11.5 (11.3) | −8.4 (16.9) | −4.7 (23.5) | −1.6 (29.1) | 2.7 (36.9) | 3.6 (38.5) | 4.0 (39.2) | −0.1 (31.8) | −2.8 (27.0) | −11.5 (11.3) | −12.0 (10.4) | −13.3 (8.1) |
| Averageprecipitation mm (inches) | 8.2 (0.32) | 16.7 (0.66) | 54.7 (2.15) | 62.8 (2.47) | 64.6 (2.54) | 61.5 (2.42) | 142.1 (5.59) | 116.2 (4.57) | 62.5 (2.46) | 43.4 (1.71) | 17.4 (0.69) | 4.0 (0.16) | 654.1 (25.74) |
| Average precipitation days(≥ 0.1 mm) | 6.4 | 9.3 | 14.4 | 14.2 | 13.4 | 15.3 | 22.3 | 21.3 | 14.5 | 9.4 | 4.9 | 2.3 | 147.7 |
| Average snowy days | 9.7 | 13.1 | 15.6 | 5.8 | 0.6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 0.9 | 5.1 | 4.6 | 55.5 |
| Averagerelative humidity (%) | 55 | 61 | 68 | 70 | 71 | 75 | 81 | 83 | 81 | 74 | 63 | 54 | 70 |
| Mean monthlysunshine hours | 169.3 | 157.2 | 162.9 | 155.5 | 166.1 | 146.1 | 116.9 | 129.4 | 138.5 | 172.5 | 174.8 | 175.8 | 1,865 |
| Percentagepossible sunshine | 52 | 49 | 44 | 40 | 39 | 35 | 28 | 32 | 38 | 49 | 55 | 55 | 43 |
| Source 1:China Meteorological Administration[4][5] | |||||||||||||
| Source 2: Weather China[6] | |||||||||||||
Deqin County has 2 towns, 4 townships and 2 ethnic townships.[7]
| Name | Simplified Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | Administrative division code | |
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| Deqen Town (Shengping) | 升平镇 | Shēngpíng zhèn | བདེ་ཆེན་གྲོང་རྡལ། | bde chen grong rdal | 533422101 | |
| Gongzêra Town (Benzilan) | 奔子栏镇 | Bēnzǐlán zhèn | ཀོང་རྩེད་ར་གྲོང་རྡལ། | kong rtsed ra grong rdal | 533422102 | |
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| Foshan Township | 佛山乡 | Fóshān xiāng | 53342220 | |||
| Yunling Township | 云岭乡 | Yúnlǐng xiāng | 53342221 | |||
| Yanmen Township | 燕门乡 | Yànmén xiāng | 53342223 | |||
| Yagra Township (Yala) | 羊拉乡 | Yánglā xiāng | གཡག་རྭ་ཤང་། | g.yag rwa shang | 53342226 | |
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| Tangdoi Lisu Ethnic Township (Tuoding) | 拖顶傈僳族乡 | Tuōdǐng Lìsùzú xiāng | ཐང་སྟོད་ལི་སུའུ་རིགས་ཤང་། | thang stod li su'u rigs shang | 533422204 | |
| Zhag'o Lisu Ethnic Township (Xiaruo) | 霞若傈僳族乡 | Xiáruò Lìsùzú xiāng | ག་འོག་ལི་སུའུ་རིགས་ཤང་། | brag 'og li su'u rigs shang | 533422205 | |
The Tibetans of Deqin, compared to Tibetans in Tibet, have had longer-lasting trade relations with the Han Chinese and other ethnic groups.[8]
Meilishi (梅里石) is in Foshan Township,[9] in the northernmost part of the county.[10]
Deqin can be reached by many daily buses traveling North from Kunming – Dali – Lijiang – Zhongdian – Deqin.
The route is a very scenic and most of it is a newly built highway apart from the Zhongdian to Deqin section which is a winding mountain road through the scenic North Yunnan/Tibetan mountains.
Deqin travel guide from Wikivoyage| International | |
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