Dêgê County

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.

Dêgê County
德格县 · སྡེ་དགེ་རྫོང་།
Derge, Dege
Location of Dêgê County (red) within Garzê Prefecture (yellow) and Sichuan province
Dêgê
Location of the seat in Sichuan
Dêgê
Dêgê (China)
Coordinates: 31°48′22″N 98°34′51″E
CountryChina
ProvinceSichuan
Autonomous prefectureGarzê
County seatGoinqên (Derge)
Area
  Total11,025 km2 (4,257 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)
  Total88,542
  Density8.0/km2 (21/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Websitewww.dege.gov.cn
Dêgê County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese德格县
Traditional Chinese德格縣
Tibetan name
Tibetanསྡེ་དགེ་རྫོང་།
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