Amdo County

Amdo County
安多县 • ཨ་མདོ་རྫོང་།
County

Location of Amdo County within Tibet
Amdo County
Location of the seat in Tibet
Coordinates: 32°15′50″N 91°40′50″E / 32.26389°N 91.68056°E / 32.26389; 91.68056
Country People's Republic of China
Autonomous region Tibet
Prefecture-level city Nagqu
Seat Pagnag
Area
 • Total 43,410.85 km2 (16,761.02 sq mi)
Population (2000)
 • Total 32,843
Time zone UTC+8 (China Standard)
Amdo County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese 安多县
Traditional Chinese 安多縣
Tibetan name
Tibetan ཨ་མདོ་རྫོང་།

Amdo County (Tibetan: ཨ་མདོ་རྫོང་ ; Chinese: 安多县) is a county within Nagqu of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. The county covers an area of 43,410.85 square kilometres and is dominated by mainly Tibetan grassland. In 2000 it had a population of 32,843 .[1]

Its capital is Amdo Town, north of Lhasa. It has a station on the new railway from Golmud to Lhasa. There is a major rail depot 3 km (1.9 mi) west of the town. Cona Lake lies to the southwest of the town of Amdo.

Administrative divisions

  • Zharen Town (ཁྲ་རིང་, 扎仁镇)
  • Yanshiping Town (ཡན་ཤིས་ཕིན་, 雁石坪镇)
  • Qangma Town (བྱང་མ་, 强玛镇)
  • Pana Town (བྲག་ནག་, 帕那镇)
  • Cuoma Township (མཚོ་དམར་, 措玛乡)
  • Dardü Township (དར་མདུད་, 滩堆乡)
  • Sibnak Chenchungo Township (སྲིབ་ནག་ཆེན་ཆུ་མགོ་, 扎曲乡)
  • Gangnyi Township (སྐང་གཉིས་, 岗尼乡)
  • Marchu Township (དམར་ཆུ་, 玛曲乡)
  • Sewu Township (སེའུ་, 色务乡)
  • Marrong Township (དམར་རོང་, 玛荣乡)
  • Töma Township (སྟོད་མ་, 多玛乡)
  • Bangmer Township (སྦང་མེར་, 帮麦乡)

References

  1. ↑ 安多縣 (in Chinese). Hudong Encyclopedia. Retrieved 9 April 2012.

Coordinates: 32°15′50″N 91°40′50″E / 32.26389°N 91.68056°E / 32.26389; 91.68056


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