Sog County
索县 • སོག་རྫོང་།
Suoxian
County
Location of Sog County (red) within Nagqu City (yellow) and the Tibet Autonomous Region
Location of Sog County (red) within Nagqu City (yellow) and the Tibet Autonomous Region
Sog County is located in Tibet
Sog County
Sog County
Location of the seat in the Tibet AR
Sog County is located in China
Sog County
Sog County
Sog County (China)
Coordinates: 31°53′17″N 93°47′06″E / 31.888°N 93.785°E / 31.888; 93.785
CountryChina
Autonomous regionTibet
Prefecture-level cityNagqu
County seatYakla (Sog)
Area
 • Total5,858.68 km2 (2,262.05 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)[1]
 • Total52,923
 • Density9.0/km2 (23/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Websitewww.xzsx.gov.cn
Sog County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese索县
Traditional Chinese索縣
Tibetan name
Tibetanསོག་རྫོང་།

Sog County (Tibetan: སོག་རྫོང་།, Chinese: 索县) is a county under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Nagqu of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.

Geography

Sog Dzong lies in the extreme western part of the former province of Kham. To its west is Chamdo and to its right Nagchu. Sogdzong is located between the Drachen and Driru, on the Sogchu River. It is the source of Gyalmo Ngulchu.

Climate

Sog County has a dry-winter alpine subarctic climate (Köppen Dwc) with mild, rainy summers and freezing to frigid, dry winters with large diurnal temperature variations.

Climate data for Sogxian (1991–2020 normals)
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Record high °C (°F) 14.4
(57.9) 		13.4
(56.1) 		22.0
(71.6) 		22.4
(72.3) 		25.4
(77.7) 		29.0
(84.2) 		31.0
(87.8) 		29.5
(85.1) 		28.0
(82.4) 		22.1
(71.8) 		15.0
(59.0) 		14.6
(58.3) 		31.0
(87.8)
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) −0.4
(31.3) 		2.5
(36.5) 		6.3
(43.3) 		10.3
(50.5) 		13.8
(56.8) 		16.9
(62.4) 		19.2
(66.6) 		19.2
(66.6) 		16.2
(61.2) 		10.7
(51.3) 		5.6
(42.1) 		2.0
(35.6) 		10.2
(50.4)
Daily mean °C (°F) −8.7
(16.3) 		−5.2
(22.6) 		−1.0
(30.2) 		2.9
(37.2) 		6.5
(43.7) 		10.1
(50.2) 		12.1
(53.8) 		11.7
(53.1) 		8.8
(47.8) 		3.2
(37.8) 		−2.8
(27.0) 		−7.0
(19.4) 		2.6
(36.6)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) −15.9
(3.4) 		−12.1
(10.2) 		−7.5
(18.5) 		−3.4
(25.9) 		0.8
(33.4) 		5.0
(41.0) 		6.9
(44.4) 		6.4
(43.5) 		3.7
(38.7) 		−2.2
(28.0) 		−9.3
(15.3) 		−14.5
(5.9) 		−3.5
(25.7)
Record low °C (°F) −31.0
(−23.8) 		−28.5
(−19.3) 		−22.7
(−8.9) 		−15.0
(5.0) 		−8.7
(16.3) 		−3.6
(25.5) 		−4.0
(24.8) 		−3.5
(25.7) 		−7.0
(19.4) 		−18
(0) 		−23.2
(−9.8) 		−30.4
(−22.7) 		−31.0
(−23.8)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 8.3
(0.33) 		7.7
(0.30) 		10.8
(0.43) 		17.3
(0.68) 		66.1
(2.60) 		139.2
(5.48) 		119.8
(4.72) 		104.3
(4.11) 		90.6
(3.57) 		34.2
(1.35) 		4.8
(0.19) 		3.5
(0.14) 		606.6
(23.9)
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) 5.6 5.7 7.2 10.2 18.6 23.2 20.7 19.3 20.5 11.3 3.5 2.4 148.2
Average snowy days 7.1 7.9 10.6 13.5 10.1 1.3 0.2 0.1 1.0 10.3 5.9 4.2 72.2
Average relative humidity (%) 44 40 41 47 59 67 68 68 70 61 48 40 54
Mean monthly sunshine hours 190.5 176.7 191.9 204.2 207.3 187.3 206.7 206.8 185.2 203.9 208.4 205.6 2,374.5
Percent possible sunshine 59 56 51 52 48 44 48 51 51 59 67 66 54
Source 1: China Meteorological Administration[2][3]
Source 2: Météo Climat (extremes)[4]

Administrative divisions

Sog County contains 2 towns and 8 townships.

Name Chinese Hanyu Pinyin Tibetan Wylie
Towns
Yakla Town
(Sog) 		亚拉镇 Yàlā zhèn གཡག་ལ་གྲོང་རྡལ། g.yag la grong rdal
Rongpo Town 荣布镇 Róngbù zhèn རོང་པོ་གྲོང་རྡལ། rong po grong rdal
Townships
Drogta Township 若达乡 Ruòdá xiāng དབྲོག་རྟ་ཤང་། dbrog sta shang
Gyälchen Township 加勤乡 Jiāqín xiāng རྒྱལ་ཆེན་ཤང་། rgyal chen shang
Thrido Township 赤多乡 Chìduō xiāng ཁྲི་རྡོ་ཤང་། khri rdo shang
Sertam Township 西昌乡 Xīchāng xiāng གསེར་ཊམ་ཤང་། gser tam shang
Chakda Township 江达乡 Jiāngdá xiāng ལྕགས་མདའ་ཤང་། lcags mda' shang
Riwar Township 热瓦乡 Rèwǎ xiāng རི་དབར་ཤང་། ri dbar shang
Garmé Township 嘎美乡 Gāměi xiāng སྒར་སྨད་ཤང་། sgar smad shang
Karmo Township 嘎木乡 Gāmù xiāng དཀར་མོ་ཤང་། dkar mo shang

Economy

Crops include barley, wheat, radish, potatoes, etc. and yaks, sheep, goat, cows, and horses are reared. Nomads move four times annually according to seasons. The county contains Tsangdain Monastery, built in 1667, resembling the Potala Palace.[5]

References

  1. ^ Tibet: Prefectures, Cities, Districts and Counties
  2. ^ 中国气象数据网 – WeatherBk Data (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 27 September 2023.
  3. ^ 中国气象数据网 (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 27 September 2023.
  4. ^ "Weather extremes for Sog Xian". Météo Climat. Retrieved 11 November 2019.
  5. ^ "Tibet's three "Potala Palaces"". China-Tibet Online. Retrieved 9 April 2012.

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