Nagarzê County

Nagarzê County 浪卡子县 • སྣ་དཀར་རྩེ་རྫོང་།
County
Gongmo Tso, Nagarzê County
Location of Nagarzê County (red) within Shannan City (yellow) and Tibet
Nagarzê Location of the seat in Tibet Nagarzê Nagarzê (China)
Coordinates: 28°51′03″N 90°55′21″E
Country	China
Autonomous region	Tibet
Prefecture-level city	Shannan (Lhoka)
County seat	Nagarzê
Area
• Total	7,969.89 km2 (3,077.19 sq mi)
Elevation	4,300−5,000 m (−12,100 ft)
Population  (2020)
• Total	32,835
• Density	4.1/km2 (11/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Website	www.langkazi.gov.cn

Nagarzê County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	浪卡子县
Traditional Chinese	浪卡子縣
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Làngkǎzǐ Xiàn
Tibetan name
Tibetan	སྣ་དཀར་རྩེ་རྫོང་།
Transcriptions Wylie sna dkar rtse rdzong Tibetan Pinyin Nagarzê Zong

Nagarzê County (Tibetan: སྣ་དཀར་རྩེ་རྫོང་།, Chinese: 浪卡子县) is a county of Shannan located in the south-east of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China. The Yarlung Tsangpo river dominates the county. Baidi Township is located in the county.

Administrative divisions

Nagarzê County contains 2 towns and 8 townships.

Name	Chinese	Hanyu Pinyin	Tibetan	Wylie
Towns
Nagarzê Town	浪卡子镇	Làngkǎzǐ zhèn	སྣ་དཀར་རྩེ་གྲོང་རྡལ།	sna dkar rtse grong rdal
Daglung Town	打隆镇	Dǎlóng zhèn	སྟག་ལུང་གྲོང་རྡལ།	stag lung grong rdal
Townships
Chamda Township	张达乡	Zhāngdá xiāng	གྲམ་མདའ་ཤང་།	gram mda' shang
Lhülpozhöl Township	伦布雪乡	Lúnbùxuě xiāng	ལྷུན་པོ་ཞོལ་ཤང་།	lhun po zhol shang
Doqoi Township	多却乡	Duōquè xiāng	མདོ་ཆོས་ཤང་།	mdo chos shang
Puma Jangtang Township	普玛江塘乡	Pǔmǎjiāngtáng xiāng	ཕུ་མ་བྱང་ཐང་ཤང་།	phu ma byang thang shang
Ngardrak Township	阿扎乡	Āzhā xiāng	མངར་བྲག་ཤང་།	mngar brag shang
Karlung Township	卡龙乡	Kǎlóng xiāng	མཁར་ལུང་ཤང་།	mkhar lung shang
Baidi Township	白地乡	Báidì xiāng	དབལ་དི་ཤང་།	dpal di shang
Karrêg Township	卡热乡	Kǎrè xiāng	ཁ་དབྲག་ཤང་།	kha dbrag shang

Climate

Climate data for Nagarzê, elevation 4,432 m (14,541 ft), (1991–2020 normals)
Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Year
Mean daily maximum °C (°F)	2.7 (36.9)	4.0 (39.2)	6.6 (43.9)	9.7 (49.5)	13.3 (55.9)	16.6 (61.9)	16.1 (61.0)	15.4 (59.7)	14.1 (57.4)	11.4 (52.5)	7.3 (45.1)	4.6 (40.3)	10.2 (50.3)
Daily mean °C (°F)	−4.3 (24.3)	−2.8 (27.0)	−0.1 (31.8)	2.7 (36.9)	6.4 (43.5)	10.1 (50.2)	10.4 (50.7)	9.8 (49.6)	8.0 (46.4)	4.0 (39.2)	−0.2 (31.6)	−2.7 (27.1)	3.4 (38.2)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F)	−11.2 (11.8)	−9.8 (14.4)	−6.4 (20.5)	−3.3 (26.1)	0.2 (32.4)	4.3 (39.7)	6.1 (43.0)	5.6 (42.1)	2.9 (37.2)	−2.5 (27.5)	−6.9 (19.6)	−9.5 (14.9)	−2.5 (27.4)
Average precipitation mm (inches)	0.4 (0.02)	0.9 (0.04)	2.7 (0.11)	9.0 (0.35)	22.3 (0.88)	49.9 (1.96)	122.0 (4.80)	119.3 (4.70)	50.8 (2.00)	7.7 (0.30)	1.3 (0.05)	0.6 (0.02)	386.9 (15.23)
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm)	0.5	0.9	2.7	5.8	8.7	14.4	21.5	22.2	15.4	3.1	0.8	0.3	96.3
Average snowy days	2.1	3.8	6.9	11.3	11.3	1.1	0.1	0.2	1.2	4.6	2.1	1.4	46.1
Average relative humidity (%)	23	25	31	40	48	57	68	71	67	47	30	23	44
Mean monthly sunshine hours	258.8	235.0	257.7	250.7	257.2	228.5	179.5	176.0	204.1	267.8	272.3	269.3	2,856.9
Percent possible sunshine	79	74	69	65	61	55	42	44	56	76	86	85	66
Source: China Meteorological Administration

Gallery

• 
  Lake at Sim La
• 
  Sim La 4330m
• 
  Yak
• 
  Karo La-Glacier
• 
  Karo La 5030m
• 
  Sheep
• 
  Yamdrok Tso
• 
  Yamdrok Lake (labelled as YAMDROG TSHO) (1954)