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County in Tibet, China
Shuanghu County
双湖县 • མཚོ་གཉིས་རྫོང་།Tsonyi, Co Nyi
Both Tibetan and Chinese name translates to "twin lake" or "two lakes", the two lakes referred to as Khangro Lake (khang ro tshwa kha) and Rêjo Lake (re co tshwa kha) respectively.
Shuanghu County is at very high elevation, mostly above 5,000 meters above sea level, and very sparsely populated (averaging around 0.12 people per square kilometre, but concentrated in the southern portion of the county).
The vast majority of its population practices nomadic pastoralism (mostly goats and sheep).
The climate is very rough, cold and dry. There is a weather station in Shuanghu, established in 1999, which on average measures negative temperatures (Celsius scale) throughout the year. The highest temperature on record is +2.3 °C (July 2000), the lowest −62.4 °C (January 2006).
世界海拔最高的县－－西藏双湖县正式挂牌 (in Simplified Chinese). 26 July 2013. Retrieved 26 May 2020. 双湖位于西藏那曲地区西北部，地处羌塘国家级自然保护区腹地，平均海拔５０００米。"双湖"是藏语"错尼"（意思为两湖），因地处康如湖和惹角湖而得名。
Mirenda Wu (23 August 2013). "Book on Tibet's no-man area released". China Tibet Online. Retrieved 27 May 2020. China's first on-the-spot book on the sparely populated Changtang area in northern Tibet was recently released in the high elevation county Co Nyi of Nagqu Prefecture, the Tibet's Daily reported. ... The story begins in 1976, 2053 herdsmen from Nagqu Prefecture drove some 160,000 flocks and herds into the then wildness and then set up two county level offices in Co Nyi County and Wombu County. Later, the Wombo County was renamed "Nyima"-the first county in the world in the name of the sun (Nyima means the sun in Tibetan language), and the Co Nyi County was upgraded as Co Nyi Special Zone by the state council.
Location of Shuanghu County (light yellow, #FFFF31) in Nagqu
ShuanghuLocation of the seat in the Tibet Autonomous RegionShow map of Tibet
Location of Shuanghu Special District (outdated map, situation before 2012)
Map including northern Shuanghu and surrounding region (DMA, 1975)
