Dêqên (circle)

Location of the Dêqên District (pink) in the Dêqên Autonomous District of the Tibetans (yellow)

The Catholic Church in Cizhong Village

Tibetan name
Tibetan script : བདེ་ ཆེན་ རྫོང་
Wylie transliteration : bde chen rdzong
Pronunciation in IPA : [ tetɕẽ ]
Official transcription of the PRCh : Dêqên
THDL transcription : Dechen
Chinese name
Traditional : 德欽 縣
Simplified : 德钦 县
Pinyin : Déqīn Xiàn

The county Dêqên (Tib. , Dechen Dzong , Chinese  德钦县 , pinyin Deqin Xiàn ) is a circle in the Autonomous County Dêqên of Tibetans in the Chinese province of Yunnan . It is on the border with Tibet Autonomous Region and Sichuan Province . The district has an area of ​​7,596 square kilometers and has 62,400 inhabitants (2006). Its main town is Shengping镇.

The Catholic Church in the village of Cizhong ( Cizhong jiaotang茨 中 教堂) has been on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China (6-1054) since 2006 .

Administrative structure

At the municipality level, the district consists of two large municipalities and six municipalities (two of which are nationalities of the Lisu ). These are (chin.):

• Greater community Shengping升平镇
• Greater community Benzilan奔子栏镇

• Foshan Township 佛山 乡
• Community Yunling云岭乡
• Community Yanmen燕门乡
• Community Tuoding the Lisu拖顶傈僳族乡
• Community Xiaruo the Lisu霞若傈僳族乡
• Community Yangla羊拉乡

Ethnic breakdown of the population (2000)

In the 2000 census, Dêqên County had 60,085 inhabitants.

Name of the people	Residents	proportion of
Tibetans	47,741	79.46%
Lisu	8,673	14.43%
Han	1,613	2.68%
Bai	969	1.61%
Naxi	940	1.56%
Hui	108	0.18%
Yi	14th	0.02%
Uighurs	11	0.02%
Miao	5	0.01%
Mongols	5	0.01%
Others	6th	0.01%

Web links

• Catholicism flourishes in Tibetan village

Coordinates: 28 ° 24 '  N , 99 ° 6'  E