Shuanghu County 双湖县 •མཚོ་གཉིས་རྫོང་། Tsonyi, Co Nyi | |
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 Location of Shuanghu County (light yellow, #FFFF31) in Nagqu | |
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| Coordinates:33°11′32″N88°50′10″E / 33.19222°N 88.83611°E /33.19222; 88.83611 | |
| Country | China |
| Autonomous region | Tibet |
| Prefecture-level city | Nagqu |
| County seat | Domar Township |
| Area | |
• Total | 116,440.91 km2 (44,958.09 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 4,960 m (16,270 ft) |
| Population (2020)[2] | |
• Total | 10,881 |
| • Density | 0.093/km2 (0.24/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Website | www |
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| Simplified Chinese | 双湖县 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 雙湖縣 | ||||||
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| Tibetan | མཚོ་གཉིས་རྫོང་། | ||||||
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Shuanghu County (Chinese:双湖县), alsotransliterated from Tibetan asTsonyi County[3][4][5] orCo Nyi County[6][7] (Tibetan:མཚོ་གཉིས་རྫོང་།; Chinese:错尼县), is acounty under the jurisdiction of theprefecture-level city ofNagqu, in the northernmost part of theTibet Autonomous Region,China. It was formed in 2012, combining the territory of the formerShuanghu Special District (Chinese:双湖特别区,Tibetan:མཚོ་གཉིས་དམིགས་བསལ་སྲིད་འཛིན་ཁུལ་) with the eastern half ofNyima County. Much of the county is within theChangtang area.
Both Tibetan and Chinese name translates to "twin lake" or "two lakes", the two lakes referred to as Khangro Lake (khang ro tshwa kha) and Rêjo Lake (re co tshwa kha) respectively.Shuanghu County is at very high elevation, mostly above 5,000 meters above sea level, and very sparsely populated (averaging around 0.12 people per square kilometre, but concentrated in the southern portion of the county). The vast majority of its population practicesnomadic pastoralism (mostly goats and sheep).[8]The climate is very rough, cold and dry. There is a weather station in Shuanghu, established in 1999,[9] which on average measures negative temperatures (Celsius scale) throughout the year. The highest temperature on record is +2.3 °C (July 2000), the lowest −62.4 °C (January 2006).
The county has onetown and sixtownships:
| Name | Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie |
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| Cozhêlhoma Town (Codrel Lhoma, Soggarluma) | 措折罗玛镇 | Cuòzhéluómǎ zhèn | ཚོ་འབྲེལ་ལྷོ་མ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | tsho 'bral lho ma grong rdal |
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| Zhide Township (Xibdê) | 协德乡 | Xiédé xiāng | ཞི་བདེ་ཤང་། | zhi bde shang |
| Yachu Township | 雅曲乡 | Yǎqǔ xiāng | ཡ་ཆུ་ཤང་། | ya chu shang |
| Garco Township | 嘎措乡 | Gācuò xiāng | དཀར་མཚོ་ཤང་། | dkar mtsho shang |
| Tsodrel Jangma Township | 措折强玛乡 | Cuòzhéqiángmǎ xiāng | ཚོ་སྦྲེལ་བྱང་མ་ཤང་། | mtsho sbrel byang ma shang |
| Cozhêdangma Township (Tsodrel Jangma) | 措折强玛乡 | Cuòzhéqiángmǎ xiāng | ཚོ་སྦྲེལ་བྱང་མ་ཤང་། | mtsho sbrel byang ma shang |
| Domar Township | 多玛乡 | Duōmǎ xiāng | རྡོ་དམར་ཤང་། | rdo dmar shang |
| Parling Township | 巴岭乡 | Bālǐng xiāng | བར་གླིང་ཤང་། | bar gling shang |
双湖位于西藏那曲地区西北部，地处羌塘国家级自然保护区腹地，平均海拔５０００米。"双湖"是藏语"错尼"（意思为两湖），因地处康如湖和惹角湖而得名。
China's first on-the-spot book on the sparely populated Changtang area in northern Tibet was recently released in the high elevation county Co Nyi of Nagqu Prefecture, the Tibet's Daily reported. ... The story begins in 1976, 2053 herdsmen from Nagqu Prefecture drove some 160,000 flocks and herds into the then wildness and then set up two county level offices in Co Nyi County and Wombu County. Later, the Wombo County was renamed "Nyima"-the first county in the world in the name of the sun (Nyima means the sun in Tibetan language), and the Co Nyi County was upgraded as Co Nyi Special Zone by the state council.
