Markam County

Markam County (Tibetan: སྨར་ཁམས་རྫོང་།; Chinese: 芒康县) is a county under the jurisdiction of the Chamdo in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China, bordering the provinces of Sichuan to the east and Yunnan to the south. It is the easternmost county-level division of the Tibet A.R.

Markam County 芒康县 • སྨར་ཁམས་རྫོང་།
County
Location of Markam County within Tibet
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Coordinates: 29.693°N 98.597°E / 29.693; 98.597
Country	China
Autonomous region	Tibet
Prefecture-level city	Chamdo
County seat	Gartok
Area
• Total	11,576.21 km2 (4,469.60 sq mi)
Population  (2020)[1]
• Total	79,001
• Density	6.8/km2 (18/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Website	mangkang.changdu.gov.cn

Markam County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	芒康县
Traditional Chinese	芒康縣
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Mángkāng Xiàn
Tibetan name
Tibetan	སྨར་ཁམས་རྫོང་།
Transcriptions Wylie smar khams rdzong Tibetan Pinyin Markam Zong

Administrative divisions

Markam County is divided in 2 towns, 13 townships, and 1 ethnic township.

Name	Chinese	Hanyu Pinyin	Tibetan	Wylie
Towns
Gartok Town	嘎托镇	Gātuō zhèn	སྒར་ཐོག་གྲོང་རྡལ།	sgar thog grong rdal
Rongmé Town	如美镇	Rúměi zhèn	རོང་སྨད་གྲོང་རྡལ།	rong smad grong rdal
Townships
Zurdeshö Township	索多西乡	Suǒduōxī xiāng	ཟུར་བདེ་ཤོད་ཤང་།	zur bde shod shang
Bumpa Township	莽岭乡	Mǎnglǐng xiāng	འབུམ་པ་ཤང་།	'bum pa shang
Tsangshö Township	宗西乡	Zōngxī xiāng	གཙང་ཤོད་ཤང་།	gtsang shod shang
Gardo Township	昂多乡	Ángduō xiāng	མགར་མདོ་ཤང་།	mgar mdo shang
Co'nga Township	措瓦乡	Cuòwǎ xiāng	མཚོ་རྔ་ཤང་།	mtsho rnga shang
Norné Township	洛尼乡	Luòní xiāng	ནོར་གནས་ཤང་།	nor gnas shang
Göpo Township	戈波乡	Gēbō xiāng	རྒོད་པོ་ཤང་།	rgod po shang
Pangda Township	帮达乡	Bāngdá xiāng	སྤང་མདའ་ཤང་།	spang mda' shang
Jidrong Township	徐中乡	Xúzhōng xiāng	བྱིས་གྲོངས་ཤང་།	byis grongs shang
Chörten Township	曲登乡	Qǔdēng xiāng	མཆོད་རྟེན་ཤང་།	mchod rten shang
Mokshö Township	木许乡	Mùxǔ xiāng	རྨོག་ཤོད་ཤང་།	rmog shod shang
Chupalung Township	朱巴龙乡	Zhūbālóng xiāng	གྲུ་པ་ལུང་ཤང་།	gru pa lung shang
Chutsenkha Township	曲孜卡乡	Qǔzīkǎ xiāng	ཆུ་ཚན་ཁ་ཤང་།	chu tshan kha shang
Ethnic township
Naxi Ethnic Township	纳西民族乡	Nàxī mínzúxiāng	འཇང་མི་རིགས་ཤང་།	'jang mi rigs shang

Climate

Climate data for Markam, elevation 3,847 m (12,621 ft), (1991–2020 normals)
Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Year
Mean daily maximum °C (°F)	4.8 (40.6)	6.3 (43.3)	8.8 (47.8)	11.9 (53.4)	16.1 (61.0)	19.1 (66.4)	18.7 (65.7)	18.3 (64.9)	17.2 (63.0)	13.6 (56.5)	9.3 (48.7)	6.4 (43.5)	12.5 (54.6)
Daily mean °C (°F)	−5.0 (23.0)	−2.9 (26.8)	0.4 (32.7)	4.0 (39.2)	8.3 (46.9)	11.9 (53.4)	12.2 (54.0)	11.7 (53.1)	9.9 (49.8)	5.4 (41.7)	−0.1 (31.8)	−3.9 (25.0)	4.3 (39.8)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F)	−12.9 (8.8)	−10.7 (12.7)	−6.6 (20.1)	−2.5 (27.5)	1.6 (34.9)	6.1 (43.0)	7.8 (46.0)	7.4 (45.3)	5.1 (41.2)	−0.7 (30.7)	−7.0 (19.4)	−11.6 (11.1)	−2.0 (28.4)
Average precipitation mm (inches)	1.1 (0.04)	3.6 (0.14)	11.0 (0.43)	22.7 (0.89)	34.6 (1.36)	94.7 (3.73)	175.7 (6.92)	152.5 (6.00)	87.8 (3.46)	17.6 (0.69)	4.7 (0.19)	1.6 (0.06)	607.6 (23.91)
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm)	1.9	3.0	5.5	9.5	9.9	16.5	21.2	20.7	14.8	6.0	2.8	1.5	113.3
Average snowy days	4.6	5.8	10.0	12.7	4.4	0.2	0	0	0.6	5.0	5.0	3.1	51.4
Average relative humidity (%)	46	47	52	56	57	64	72	74	72	63	54	47	59
Mean monthly sunshine hours	248.8	227.0	241.0	226.4	231.6	203.5	167.5	177.0	200.8	236.1	236.5	246.7	2,642.9
Percentage possible sunshine	76	72	64	58	55	49	39	44	55	67	75	78	61
Source: China Meteorological Administration[2][3]

Transportation

• China National Highway 214
• China National Highway 318