Dinggyê County

Dinggyê County (Tibetan: གཏིང་སྐྱེས་རྫོང་།, Chinese: 定结县) is a county of the Xigazê city in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China, bordering Nepal's Sankhuwasabha and Taplejung Districts to the south and India's Sikkim state to the southeast. Jin Co and Duolo Co are located in this county.

Dinggyê County
གཏིང་སྐྱེས་རྫོང་། · 定结县
Dinjie, Tingche, Tingkye
Location of Dinggyê County (red) within Xigazê City (yellow) and the Tibet Autonomous Region
Dinggyê
Location of the seat in the Tibet A.R.
Dinggyê
Dinggyê (China)
Coordinates (Dinggyê County government): 28°21′51″N 87°45′57″E
CountryChina
Autonomous regionTibet
Prefecture-level cityXigazê
County seatGyankar
Area
  Total5,834.55 km2 (2,252.73 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)
  Total20,362
  Density3.5/km2 (9.0/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Websitewww.djx.gov.cn
Dinggyê County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese定结县
Traditional Chinese定結縣
Tibetan name
Tibetanགཏིང་སྐྱེས་རྫོང་།

It is one of the four counties that comprise the Qomolangma National Nature Preserve (Dinggyê, Tingri, Nyalam, and Kyirong).

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