Zêkog County

Zêkog County
Zêkog County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	泽库县
Traditional Chinese	澤庫縣
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Zékù Xiàn
Tibetan name
Tibetan	རྩེ་ཁོག་རྫོང་།
Wylie
Transcriptions
Wylie	rtse khog rdzong
Tibetan Pinyin	Zêkog Zong

Zêkog

泽库县 · རྩེ་ཁོག་རྫོང་།
Zêkog 泽库县 · རྩེ་ཁོག་རྫོང་།
County
	Zêkog County (light red) within Huangnan Prefecture (yellow) and Qinghai
	Zêkog Location of the seat in Qinghai
	Coordinates: 35°05′N 101°30′E / 35.083°N 101.500°E
Country	China
Province	Qinghai
Autonomous prefecture	Huangnan
County seat	Chak Qu Town
Area
• Total	6,494 km2 (2,507 sq mi)
Elevation	3,660 m (12,010 ft)
Population (2020)
• Total	75,659
• Density	12/km2 (30/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Postal code	811400
Area code	0973
Website	www.zeku.gov.cn

Zêkog County (Tibetan: རྩེ་ཁོག་རྫོང; Chinese: 泽库县) is the second largest administrative subdivision by area within Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in eastern Qinghai Province, China, bordering Gansu to the east. The county has an area of 6,658 square kilometres or 2,571 square miles and a population of ~50,000 (2001), mainly Tibetan. The county seat is the town of Chak Qu, whose altitude is approximately 3,700 metres or 12,100 feet above sea level.

Administrative divisions

Zêkog County is made up of 4 towns and 3 townships:

Name	Simplified Chinese	Hanyu Pinyin	Tibetan	Wylie	Administrative division code
Towns
Zêkog Town (Zêqu, Chak Qu, Zequ)	泽曲镇	Zéqǔ Zhèn	རྩེ་ཆུ་གྲོང་བརྡལ།	rtse chu grong brdal	632323100
Mêxü Town (Maixiu)	麦秀镇	Màixiù Zhèn	དམེ་ཤུལ་གྲོང་རྡལ།	dme shul grong rdal	632323101
Hor Town (Heri)	和日镇	Hérì Zhèn	ཧོར་གྲོང་རྡལ།	hor grong rdal	632323102
Nyinqug Town (Nyinxug, Ningxiu)	宁秀镇	Níngxiù Zhèn	ཉིན་ཤུག་གྲོང་རྡལ།	nyin shug grong rdal	632323103
Townships
Poingya Township (Wangjia)	王加乡	Wángjiā Xiāng	བོན་བརྒྱ་ཞང་།	rtse chu grong brdal	632323202
Jisa Township (Xibusha)	西卜沙乡	Xībùshā Xiāng	དཔྱི་ས་ཞང་།	dpyi sa zhang	632323203
Dogarmo Township (Duohemao)	多禾茂乡	Duōhémào Xiāng	རྡོ་དཀར་མོ་ཞང་།	rdo dkar mo zhang	632323204

Climate

Zêkog County has an alpine climate (Köppen ETH) due to very high elevation.

Climate data for Zêkog County, elevation 3,663 m (12,018 ft), (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–2010)
Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Year
Record high °C (°F)	10.7 (51.3)	12.3 (54.1)	16.5 (61.7)	21.6 (70.9)	21.4 (70.5)	22.8 (73.0)	25.2 (77.4)	23.2 (73.8)	22.9 (73.2)	19.0 (66.2)	12.2 (54.0)	10.9 (51.6)	25.2 (77.4)
Mean daily maximum °C (°F)	−2.6 (27.3)	0.2 (32.4)	3.7 (38.7)	8.1 (46.6)	11.1 (52.0)	13.6 (56.5)	16.0 (60.8)	15.9 (60.6)	12.5 (54.5)	7.1 (44.8)	2.5 (36.5)	−1.3 (29.7)	7.2 (45.0)
Daily mean °C (°F)	−12.9 (8.8)	−9.7 (14.5)	−5.0 (23.0)	0.3 (32.5)	4.1 (39.4)	7.5 (45.5)	9.7 (49.5)	9.2 (48.6)	5.5 (41.9)	−0.2 (31.6)	−6.8 (19.8)	−11.7 (10.9)	−0.8 (30.5)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F)	−20.7 (−5.3)	−17.6 (0.3)	−12.1 (10.2)	−6.2 (20.8)	−1.7 (28.9)	2.2 (36.0)	4.2 (39.6)	3.8 (38.8)	0.8 (33.4)	−5.2 (22.6)	−13.3 (8.1)	−19.2 (−2.6)	−7.1 (19.2)
Record low °C (°F)	−35.0 (−31.0)	−31.9 (−25.4)	−28.3 (−18.9)	−19.0 (−2.2)	−17.3 (0.9)	−6.2 (20.8)	−8.7 (16.3)	−7.6 (18.3)	−10.5 (13.1)	−19.0 (−2.2)	−27.1 (−16.8)	−31.1 (−24.0)	−35.0 (−31.0)
Average precipitation mm (inches)	3.2 (0.13)	4.7 (0.19)	11.3 (0.44)	24.6 (0.97)	58.7 (2.31)	82.9 (3.26)	109.1 (4.30)	90.7 (3.57)	78.1 (3.07)	31.2 (1.23)	3.9 (0.15)	1.4 (0.06)	499.8 (19.68)
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm)	4.2	5.4	7.5	10.4	16.2	18.0	17.8	16.6	16.8	12.4	3.4	2.1	130.8
Average snowy days	5.5	7.6	9.9	13.2	12.4	2.9	0.4	0.5	4.0	13.0	5.2	3.2	77.8
Average relative humidity (%)	49	48	50	57	66	72	75	76	77	70	56	47	62
Mean monthly sunshine hours	219.2	200.3	229.6	237.4	221.0	196.0	212.3	212.8	172.7	203.4	227.2	229.4	2,561.3
Percent possible sunshine	70	64	61	60	51	45	48	52	47	59	74	76	59
Source: China Meteorological Administration^[2]^[3]