{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2025}}{{Infobox settlement |name = Zoigê County |native_name = {{nobold|{{lang|zh-hans|若尔盖县}} · {{bo-textonly|མཛོད་དགེ་རྫོང་།}} · Zuxxjji}} |other_name =Ruo'ergai |postal_code = 624500 |postal_code_type = Postal code |pushpin_map = Sichuan#China |pushpin_label = Zoigê |pushpin_map_caption = Location of the seat in Sichuan |pushpin_mapsize = 250 |seat = Dagcagoin |seat_type = County seat |settlement_type = County |image_skyline = Baozuo communities.jpg |imagesize = 250px |image_caption = Baozuo township in Zoigê County |image_map = Location of Zoigê within Sichuan (China).png |map_caption = Zoigê County (pink) in Ngawa Prefecture (yellow) and Sichuan |mapsize = 250px |subdivision_type = Country |subdivision_name = China |subdivision_type1 = Province |subdivision_name1 = Sichuan |subdivision_type2 = Autonomous prefecture |subdivision_name2 = Ngawa |area_code = 0837 |area_total_km2 =10620 |population_total =76712 |population_as_of =2020 |population_footnotes = <ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.abazhou.gov.cn/abazhou/abzpcgb/202106/84e6bc7453044a248ad18d1a37fcec38.shtml |title = 阿坝州第七次全国人口普查公报第二号——县（市）人口情况 |publisher = Government of Ngawa Prefecture |language = zh |date = 2021-06-11 |access-date = 2023-08-06 |archive-date = 2024-12-02 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20241202154546/https://www.abazhou.gov.cn/abazhou/abzpcgb/202106/84e6bc7453044a248ad18d1a37fcec38.shtml |url-status = dead }}</ref> |population_blank1 = Tibetan - 90.4% |population_blank1_title = Major nationalities |population_density_km2 = auto |coor_pinpoint = Zoigê County Cultural Pavilion ({{lang|zh-hans|若尔盖县文化馆}}) |coordinates = {{coord|33.575|N|102.962|E|format=dms|type:adm3rd_region:CN-51_source:Gaode|display=it}} |elevation_m = |timezone = China Standard |utc_offset = +8 |website = {{URL|http://www.ruoergai.gov.cn}} }} {{Infobox Chinese |order=st |s=若尔盖县 |t=若爾蓋縣 |p=Ruò'ěrgài Xiàn |tib={{bo-textonly|མཛོད་དགེ་རྫོང་།}} |wylie=mdzod dge rdzong |zwpy=Zoigê Zong | lang1_content = Zuxxjji | lang1 =Qiang }} '''Zoigê County''' or '''Ruo'ergai County''' ({{bo|t=མཛོད་དགེ་རྫོང་།|w=mdzod dge rdzong |z=Zoigê Zong}}; {{lang-zh|s=若尔盖县 |p=Ruò'ěrgài Xiàn}}) is a county of Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan, China, bordering Gansu to the north. It is the northernmost county of the province and part of the Tibetan traditional region of Amdo.

It has an area of {{convert|10620|km2|abbr=on}} and a population of {{formatnum:69900}}, 90.4% of which are Tibetan people.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.abazhou.gov.cn/gxzc/gxzc-reg-xqgk.html|title=Profile of Zoigê County| publisher=Official website of Ngawa Prefecture Government|access-date=2008-06-08|language=zh |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080409032606/http://www.abazhou.gov.cn/gxzc/gxzc-reg-xqgk.html <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = 2008-04-09}}</ref>

== Governance == Ruo'ergai County Public Security Bureau ({{Lang-zh|c=若尔盖县公安局}}) is the primary law enforcement agency of Ruo'ergai county. It operates police stations in {{Ill|Baigyi town|zh|巴西镇}}, {{Ill|Qoijê Township|zh|求吉乡}} and {{Ill|Pabso Township|zh|求吉乡}}.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-02-13 |title=若尔盖县公安局开展春节期间走访慰问活动_若尔盖县人民政府 |url=https://www.ruoergai.gov.cn/regxrmzf/c100051/202402/62695f3546214efdaa228270bafc1701.shtml |access-date=2025-03-03 |website=Ruo'ergai County government }}{{Dead link|date=August 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

On 14 July 2022, the Ruo'ergai County Public Security Bureau began a major operation to crack down on firearms and explosives, seizing a total of 198 firearms, 4,300 rounds of ammunition, 10 hand grenades, 20&nbsp;kg of explosives and an improvised mortar.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hongyong |first=Yang |date=2022-07-16 |title=四川若尔盖缉枪治爆：群众上缴枪支198支，手榴弹10枚 |trans-title=Sichuan Ruo'ergai county police crack down on firearms and explosives: 198 firearms and 10 hand grenades are seized |url=https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_19044050 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240607064609/https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_19044050 |archive-date=2024-06-07 |access-date=2025-03-03 |website=www.thepaper.cn |url-status=live }}</ref>

The Ruo'ergai County Fire and Rescue Battalion ({{Lang-zh|c=若尔盖县消防救援大队}}) provides fire and rescue services in Ruo'ergai county.<ref>[https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_13413505 榜样力量！四川消防4个集体4名个人荣获省级表彰！], published 2021-07-02, retrieved 2025-03-03</ref>

==Geography== Ruo'ergai County is found in the easternmost sections of the Tibetan Plateau. The county is primarily a highland basin made up of the Zoigê Marsh between the Min Mountains and Amne Machin. The western border of the county, shared with Maqu County in Gansu, is formed by the first major bend of the Yellow River where it changes course nearly 180 degrees and heads back towards Qinghai.

== Climate == Ruo'ergai has an alpine subarctic climate (Köppen ''Dwc''), featuring very cold nights even in summertime, and very cold winters with extreme diurnal temperature ranges. Snow can fall any time of the year and usually does not melt until summer due to repeated nightly freezing even when maxima are above {{convert|0|C|F}}. Therefore, access to Ruo'ergai is heavily restricted during the winter months from late October to early May. Sitting at an altitude of more than 11,000 feet, high-altitude sickness is another common problem for tourists.

{{Weather box | width = auto | metric first = y | single line = y | collapsed = Y | location = Ruo'ergai, elevation {{convert|3441|m|ft|abbr=on}}, (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1971–2020) | Jan high C = 1.3 | Feb high C = 3.6 | Mar high C = 6.4 | Apr high C = 10.2 | May high C = 13.2 | Jun high C = 15.6 | Jul high C = 18.2 | Aug high C = 18.0 | Sep high C = 14.7 | Oct high C = 9.8 | Nov high C = 5.7 | Dec high C = 2.2 | Jan mean C = -8.9 | Feb mean C = -5.8 | Mar mean C = -1.5 | Apr mean C = 2.7 | May mean C = 6.2 | Jun mean C = 9.5 | Jul mean C = 11.7 | Aug mean C = 11.1 | Sep mean C = 7.8 | Oct mean C = 2.5 | Nov mean C = -3.1 | Dec mean C = -7.7 | Jan low C = -17.2 | Feb low C = -13.5 | Mar low C = -7.5 | Apr low C = -3.1 | May low C = 0.5 | Jun low C = 4.4 | Jul low C = 6.1 | Aug low C = 5.4 | Sep low C = 2.9 | Oct low C = -2.3 | Nov low C = -9.1 | Dec low C = -15.2 | Jan record high C = 13.6 | Jan record low C = -33.6 | Feb record high C = 16.2 | Feb record low C = -31.8 | Mar record high C = 20.2 | Mar record low C = -26.0 | Apr record high C = 23.5 | Apr record low C = -17.2 | May record high C = 23.3 | May record low C = -11.5 | Jun record high C = 25.6 | Jun record low C = -6.6 | Jul record high C = 25.2 | Jul record low C = -3.7 | Aug record high C = 26.5 | Aug record low C = -5.6 | Sep record high C = 25.6 | Sep record low C = -9.6 | Oct record high C = 22.6 | Oct record low C = -15.5 | Nov record high C = 16.2 | Nov record low C = -23.4 | Dec record high C = 13.6 | Dec record low C = -28.0 | year high C = | year low C = | year high F = | year low F = | precipitation colour = green | Jan precipitation mm = 5.6 | Feb precipitation mm = 9.7 | Mar precipitation mm = 20.3 | Apr precipitation mm = 35.5 | May precipitation mm = 82.7 | Jun precipitation mm = 104.8 | Jul precipitation mm = 124.9 | Aug precipitation mm = 109.9 | Sep precipitation mm = 103.1 | Oct precipitation mm = 55.8 | Nov precipitation mm = 10.1 | Dec precipitation mm = 3.4 | Jan humidity = 54 | Feb humidity = 56 | Mar humidity = 61 | Apr humidity = 65 | May humidity = 69 | Jun humidity = 73 | Jul humidity = 75 | Aug humidity = 75 | Sep humidity = 77 | Oct humidity = 74 | Nov humidity = 65 | Dec humidity = 57 | unit precipitation days = 0.1 mm | Jan precipitation days = 5.3 | Feb precipitation days = 6.8 | Mar precipitation days = 11.4 | Apr precipitation days = 14.2 | May precipitation days = 18.7 | Jun precipitation days = 19.5 | Jul precipitation days = 17.3 | Aug precipitation days = 15.7 | Sep precipitation days = 17.8 | Oct precipitation days = 15.3 | Nov precipitation days = 5.7 | Dec precipitation days = 3.3 | year precipitation days = | Jan sun = 213.6 | Feb sun = 185.0 | Mar sun = 208.1 | Apr sun = 211.3 | May sun = 205.8 | Jun sun = 180.4 | Jul sun = 219.6 | Aug sun = 223.6 | Sep sun = 175.0 | Oct sun = 180.6 | Nov sun = 217.0 | Dec sun = 224.7 | year sun = | Jan percentsun = 67 | Feb percentsun = 59 | Mar percentsun = 56 | Apr percentsun = 54 | May percentsun = 48 | Jun percentsun = 42 | Jul percentsun = 51 | Aug percentsun = 55 | Sep percentsun = 48 | Oct percentsun = 52 | Nov percentsun = 70 | Dec percentsun = 73 | year percentsun = | Jan snow days = 7.3 | Feb snow days = 9.1 | Mar snow days = 15.0 | Apr snow days = 14.3 | May snow days = 9.0 | Jun snow days = 1.3 | Jul snow days = 0.2 | Aug snow days = 0.3 | Sep snow days = 2.1 | Oct snow days = 12.8 | Nov snow days = 8.0 | Dec snow days = 4.9 | year snow days = | source 1 = China Meteorological Administration<ref name="cma graphical">{{cite web |url=http://data.cma.cn/data/weatherBk.html |script-title=zh:中国气象数据网 – WeatherBk Data |publisher=China Meteorological Administration |language = zh-hans |access-date=13 April 2023}}</ref><ref> {{cite web|url=https://experience.arcgis.com/template/e724038fda394e9d9b7921f10fd1aa55/page/%E7%BA%AF%E8%A1%A8%E6%A0%BC%E7%BB%9F%E8%AE%A1-(%E5%AF%B9%E6%AF%948110%E5%8F%98%E5%8C%96)/?org=UQmaps |script-title=zh:中国气象数据网|publisher=China Meteorological Administration |language = zh-hans | access-date =13 April 2023}}</ref>NOAA<ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/data/oceans/archive/arc0216/0253808/5.5/data/0-data/Region-2-WMO-Normals-9120/China/CSV/RUO_ERGAI_56079.csv |title = Zoige Climate Normals 1991-2020 |publisher = NOAA |language = en-us }}</ref> | source 2 = Weather China<ref name = Clim>{{cite web | url = http://www.weather.com.cn/cityintro/101271912.shtml? | script-title=zh:若尔盖 - 气象数据 -中国天气网 | publisher = Weather China | language = zh | access-date = 29 November 2022}}</ref> | source = }}

==Transport== *China National Highway 213 *China National Highway 248

==Administrative divisions== Ruo'ergai County has 7 towns and 6 townships:<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.stats.gov.cn/sj/tjbz/tjyqhdmhcxhfdm/2022/51/32/513232.html |script-title=zh:2022年统计用区划代码和城乡划分代码：若尔盖县|publisher=National Bureau of Statistics of the People's Republic of China|language=zh-cn |access-date=2023-08-06 |archive-url = |archive-date = }}</ref>

{| class="wikitable" align="center" style="width:50%; border="1" |- ! Name ! Simplified Chinese ! Hanyu Pinyin ! Tibetan ! Wylie ! Administrative division code |- | colspan="7" style="text-align:center; background:#d3d3d3;"|'''Towns''' |---------- | {{Ill|Dagcagoin Town|zh|达扎寺镇}}<br>(Dazhasi) |{{lang|zh-hans|达扎寺镇}} |{{Transliteration|zh|Dázhāsì Zhèn}} |{{bo-textonly|སྟག་ཚ་དགོན་གྲོང་རྡལ།}} |{{Transliteration|bo|stag tsha dgon grong rdal}} | 513232100 |- | {{Ill|Tanggor town|zh|唐克镇}}<br>(Tangke) |{{lang|zh-hans|唐克镇}} |{{Transliteration|zh|Tángkè Zhèn}} |{{bo-textonly|ཐང་སྐོར་གྲོང་རྡལ།}} |{{Transliteration|bo|thang skor grong rdal}} | 513232101 |- | Xagdom Town<br>(Hongxing) |{{lang|zh-hans|红星镇}} |{{Transliteration|zh|Hóngxīng Zhèn}} |{{bo-textonly|བཞག་སྡོམ་གྲོང་རྡལ།}} |{{Transliteration|bo|bzhag sdom grong rdal}} | 513232102 |- | {{Ill|Qammê Town|zh|辖曼镇}}<br>(Xiaman) |{{lang|zh-hans|辖曼镇}} |{{Transliteration|zh|Xiámàn Zhèn}} |{{bo-textonly|བྱམས་མེ་གྲོང་རྡལ།}} |{{Transliteration|bo|byams me grong rdal}} | 513232103 |- | {{Ill|Baigyi town|zh|巴西镇}}<br>(Baxi) |{{lang|zh-hans|巴西镇}} |{{Transliteration|zh|Bāxī Zhèn}} |{{bo-textonly|དཔལ་སྐྱིད་གྲོང་རྡལ།}} |{{Transliteration|bo|dpal skyid grong rdal}} | 513232104 |- | {{Ill|A'gyi town|zh|阿西镇}}<br>(Axi) |{{lang|zh-hans|阿西镇}} |{{Transliteration|zh|Āxī Zhèn}} |{{bo-textonly|ཨ་སྐྱིད་གྲོང་རྡལ།}} |{{Transliteration|bo|a skyid grong rdal}} | 513232105 |- | {{Ill|Têwo town|zh|铁布镇}}<br>(Tiebu) |{{lang|zh-hans|铁布镇}} |{{Transliteration|zh|Tiěbù Zhèn}} |{{bo-textonly|ཐེ་བོ་གྲོང་རྡལ།}} |{{Transliteration|bo|the bo grong rdal}} | 513232106 |- | colspan="7" style="text-align:center; background:#d3d3d3;"|'''Townships''' |---------- | Mêqu Township<br>(Maixi) |{{lang|zh-hans|麦溪乡}} |{{Transliteration|zh|Màixī Xiāng}} |{{bo-textonly|རྨེ་ཆུ་ཡུལ་ཚོ།}} |{{Transliteration|bo|rme chu yul tsho}} | 513232205 |- | {{Ill|Lingwa township|zh|嫩哇乡}}<br>(Nenwa) |{{lang|zh-hans|嫩哇乡}} |{{Transliteration|zh|Nènwā Xiāng}} |{{bo-textonly|གླིང་བ་ཡུལ་ཚོ།}} |{{Transliteration|bo|gling ba yul tsho}} | 513232206 |- | {{Ill|Zhingwa Township|zh|占哇乡}}<br>(Zhanwa) |{{lang|zh-hans|占哇乡}} |{{Transliteration|zh|Zhànwā Xiāng}} |{{bo-textonly|འབྲིང་བ་ཡུལ་ཚོ།}} |{{Transliteration|bo|'bring ba yul tsho}} | 513232210 |- | {{Ill|Gyangca Township|zh|降扎乡}}<br>(Jiangzha) |{{lang|zh-hans|降扎乡}} |{{Transliteration|zh|Jiàngzhā Xiāng}} |{{bo-textonly|རྐྱང་ཚ་ཡུལ་ཚོ།}} |{{Transliteration|bo|rkyang tsha yul tsho}} | 513232211 |- | {{Ill|Qoijê Township|zh|求吉乡}}<br>(Qiuji) |{{lang|zh-hans|求吉乡}} |{{Transliteration|zh|Qiújí Xiāng}} |{{bo-textonly|ཆོས་རྗེ་ཡུལ་ཚོ།}} |{{Transliteration|bo|chos rje yul tsho}} | 513232214 |- | {{Ill|Pabso Township|zh|求吉乡}}<br>(Bobso, Baozuo) |{{lang|zh-hans|包座乡}} |{{Transliteration|zh|Bāozuò Xiāng}} |{{bo-textonly|བབ་བཟོ་ཡུལ་ཚོ།}} |{{Transliteration|bo|bab bzo yul tsho}} | 513232215 |- |}

== National priority protected sites == There are two National Priority protected sites in Ruo'ergai County. * {{Ill|Aba Long March Relics|zh|阿壩紅軍長征遺跡}} - added as part of the {{Ill|6th Batch of National Priority Protected Sites|zh|第六批全国重点文物保护单位}} in 2006<ref>{{Cite web |last=郭 |first=晓婷 |title=国务院关于核定并公布第六批全国重点文物保护单位的通知 第六批全国重点文物保护单位名单（共计1080处） 与现有全国重点文物保护单位合并的项目（共计106处） |url=https://www.gov.cn/gongbao/content/2006/content_346203.htm |access-date=2025-03-03 |website=www.gov.cn}}</ref> ** {{Ill|Baozuo battlefield relics|zh|包座戰役遺址}}<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=长征革命遗址、遗迹_若尔盖县人民政府 |url=https://www.ruoergai.gov.cn/regxrmzf/c105376/202303/f66ee6ab86f044019bfbc9170a6fe707.shtml?eqid=8730c5de000ca21d0000000264951977 |access-date=2025-03-03 |website=www.ruoergai.gov.cn }}{{Dead link|date=August 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> ** {{Ill|Baxi Conference Site|zh|巴西會議會址}}<ref name=":0" /> * {{Ill|Dagcagoin Monastery|zh|達扎寺 (若爾蓋縣)}} - added as part of the {{Ill|7th Batch of National Priority Protected Sites|zh|第七批全国重点文物保护单位}} in 2013<ref>{{Cite web |date=2014-07-21 |title=第七批全国重点文物保护单位名单 |url=http://www.gov.cn/guoqing/2014-07/21/content_2721176.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200204120009/http://www.gov.cn/guoqing/2014-07/21/content_2721176.htm |archive-date=2020-02-04 |website=Chinese government}}</ref>

==References== * [http://www.ruoergai.gov.cn "China Ruoergai" - County Government site] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150509020535/http://www.ruoergai.gov.cn/ |date=2015-05-09 }} {{Reflist}}

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