Dêgê County
Dêgê County
德格县 · སྡེ་དགེ་རྫོང་། Derge, Dege | |
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Location of Dêgê County (red) within Garzê Prefecture (yellow) and Sichuan province | |
| Coordinates: 31°48′22″N 98°34′51″E / 31.8061°N 98.5809°E | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Sichuan |
| Autonomous prefecture | Garzê |
| County seat | Goinqên (Derge) |
| Area | |
• Total | 11,025 km2 (4,257 sq mi) |
| Population (2020) | |
• Total | 88,542 |
| • Density | 8.0/km2 (21/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Website | www |
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| Simplified Chinese | 德格县 | ||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 德格縣 | ||||||||
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| Tibetan | སྡེ་དགེ་རྫོང་། | ||||||||
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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.