Danba County 丹巴县 ·རོང་བྲག་རྫོང་། Rongzhag | |
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 The county seat | |
.png) Location of Danba County (red) within Garzê Prefecture (yellow) and Sichuan. | |
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| Coordinates:30°57′N101°51′E / 30.950°N 101.850°E /30.950; 101.850 | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Sichuan |
| Autonomous prefecture | Garzê |
| Township-level divisions | 1 town 14 townships |
| County seat | Chaggo |
| Area | |
• Total | 4,656 km2 (1,798 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 1,799 m (5,902 ft) |
| Population (2020)[1] | |
• Total | 49,872 |
| • Density | 11/km2 (28/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Danba County | |||||||
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| Chinese name | |||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 丹巴县 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 丹巴縣 | ||||||
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| Tibetan name | |||||||
| Tibetan | རོང་བྲག་རྫོང་། | ||||||
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Rongzhag (Tibetan:རོང་བྲག,ZYPY:Rongzhag Zong), alsoDanba (Chinese:丹巴;pinyin:Dānbā) is a county of the easternGarzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in westernSichuan Province, China. The county seat is the town ofChaggo.
Law enforcement in the county is provided by theDanba County Public Security Bureau. It contains one traffic police unit and a police post inGya'gyü Town.[2][3]
ThePeople's Armed Police Danba County Company provides paramilitary law enforcement and disaster relief in the county.[4]
Firefighting and rescue duties in the county are provided by theDanba County Fire and Rescue Battalion.[5]
Rongzhag County is divided into 9towns and 2townships:
| Name | Simplified Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | Administrative division code | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
Danba County is home to twoNational Priority Protected Sites:
| Climate data for Danba, elevation 1,950 m (6,400 ft), (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–2010) | |||||||||||||
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| 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) |
| Averageprecipitation 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 |
| Averagerelative humidity (%) | 43 | 40 | 41 | 46 | 53 | 65 | 66 | 61 | 65 | 62 | 54 | 48 | 54 |
| Mean monthlysunshine 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 |
| Percentagepossible sunshine | 48 | 52 | 52 | 52 | 48 | 39 | 40 | 44 | 45 | 50 | 50 | 44 | 47 |
| Source:China Meteorological Administration[8][9] | |||||||||||||
