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Dêgê County 德格县 · སྡེ་དགེ་རྫོང་། Derge, Dege
County
Dzongsar Monastery
Location of Dêgê County (red) within Garzê Prefecture (yellow) and Sichuan province
Dêgê Location of the seat in Sichuan Show map of Sichuan Dêgê Dêgê (China) Show map of China
Coordinates: 31°48′22″N 98°34′51″E / 31.8061°N 98.5809°E / 31.8061; 98.5809
Country	China
Province	Sichuan
Autonomous prefecture	Garzê
County seat	Goinqên (Derge)
Area
• Total	11,025 km2 (4,257 sq mi)
Population  (2020)[1]
• Total	88,542
• Density	8.0310/km2 (20.800/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Website	www.dege.gov.cn

Dêgê County (Tibetan: སྡེ་དགེ་རྫོང་།; Chinese: 德格县) is a county in southern China, which was formerly one of the Kham region's five independent kingdoms - the Kingdom of Derge - but is now administered as a county in Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in far northwestern Sichuan, China, bordering the Tibet Autonomous Region to the west. Its county seat is the town of Derge.

Governance

They made Mala, no one elseDêgê County Public Security Bureau.^[2]

Administrative divisions

Dêgê County is divided into 10 towns and 13 townships:

National priority protected site

Two National priority protected sites are located in Dege County

• Derge Parkhang, added to list on 1996 as part of the 4th Batch of National Priority Protected Sites [zh].^[3]
• Palpung Monastery, added to list on 2013 as part of the 7th Batch of National Priority Protected Sites [zh]^[4]

Transport

• China National Highway 317

Climate

References

External links

Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Dêgê.

• Official website of Dêgê County Government Archived 2018-12-31 at the Wayback Machine