Amdo County 安多县 •ཨ་མདོ་རྫོང་། | |
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.png) Location of Amdo County within Tibet Autonomous Region | |
  Amdo County Location of the seat in Tibet Autonomous Region Show map of Tibet Amdo County Amdo County (China) Show map of China | |
| Coordinates:32°15′50″N91°40′50″E / 32.26389°N 91.68056°E /32.26389; 91.68056 | |
| Country | China |
| Autonomous region | Tibet |
| Prefecture-level city | Nagqu |
| County seat | Pagnag |
| Area | |
• Total | 43,410.85 km2 (16,761.02 sq mi) |
| Population (2020)[1] | |
• Total | 39,683 |
| • Density | 0.91413/km2 (2.3676/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Website | www |
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| Simplified Chinese | 安多县 | ||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 安多縣 | ||||||||||
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| Tibetan | ཨ་མདོ་རྫོང་། | ||||||||||
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Amdo County (Tibetan:ཨ་མདོ་རྫོང་;Chinese:安多县) is a county withinNagqu of theTibet Autonomous Region ofChina. The county covers an area of 43,410.85 square kilometres and is dominated by mainly by Tibetangrassland. In 2000 it had a population of 32,843 .[2]
Its capital isAmdo Town, north ofLhasa. It contains theAmdo railway station on the new railway fromGolmud toLhasa. 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.
Amdo county contains the following 4towns and 9townships:
| Name | Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie |
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| Towns | ||||
| Pagnag Town | 帕那镇 | Pànà zhèn | བྲག་ནག་གྲོང་རྡལ། | brag nag grong rdal |
| Qangma Town | 强玛镇 | Qiángmǎ zhèn | བྱང་མ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | byang ma grong rdal |
| Zaring Town | 扎仁镇 | Zhārén zhèn | ཁྲ་རིང་གྲོང་རྡལ། | khra ring grong rdal |
| Yanshipin Town* | 雁石坪镇 | Yànshípíng zhèn | ཡན་ཤིས་ཕིན་གྲོང་རྡལ། | yan shis phin grong rdal |
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| Töma Township* | 多玛乡 | Duōmǎ xiāng | སྟོད་མ་ཤང་། | stod ma shang |
| Marchu Township* | 玛曲乡 | Mǎqǔ xiāng | དམར་ཆུ་ཤང་། | dmar chu shang |
| Dardü Township | 滩堆乡 | Tānduī xiāng | དར་མདུད་ཤང་། | dar mdud shang |
| Bangmer Township | 帮爱乡 | Bāng'ài xiāng | སྦང་མེར་ཤང་། | sbang mer shang |
| Marrong Township* | 玛荣乡 | Mǎróng xiāng | དམར་རོང་ཤང་། | dmar rong shang |
| Zhachu Township (Sibnak Chenchungo) | 扎曲乡 | Zhāqǔ xiāng | བཀྲ་ཆུ་ཤང་། | bra chu shang |
| Sewu Township* | 色务乡 | Sèwù xiāng | སེའུ་ཤང་། | se'u shang |
| Coma Township | 措玛乡 | Cuòmǎ xiāng | མཚོ་དམར་ཤང་། | mtsho dmar shang |
| Gangnyi Township* | 岗尼乡 | Gǎngní xiāng | སྐང་གཉིས་ཤང་། | skang gnyis shang |
* Although being administered by Amdo County, Yanshipin, Gangnyi, Marchu, Sewu, Marrong and Töma are partially or entirely located within the borders ofQinghai province. | ||||
| Climate data for Amdo, elevation 4,800 m (15,700 ft), (1991–2020 normals) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | −5.5 (22.1) | −2.8 (27.0) | 1.3 (34.3) | 5.5 (41.9) | 9.4 (48.9) | 13.3 (55.9) | 14.4 (57.9) | 14.0 (57.2) | 11.6 (52.9) | 5.9 (42.6) | 0.1 (32.2) | −3.6 (25.5) | 5.3 (41.5) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −13.6 (7.5) | −10.7 (12.7) | −6.5 (20.3) | −2.1 (28.2) | 2.5 (36.5) | 6.7 (44.1) | 8.4 (47.1) | 8.1 (46.6) | 5.2 (41.4) | −1.2 (29.8) | −8.2 (17.2) | −12.3 (9.9) | −2.0 (28.4) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −20.8 (−5.4) | −18.1 (−0.6) | −13.8 (7.2) | −8.6 (16.5) | −3.3 (26.1) | 1.6 (34.9) | 3.8 (38.8) | 3.5 (38.3) | 0.7 (33.3) | −6.4 (20.5) | −14.6 (5.7) | −19.6 (−3.3) | −8.0 (17.7) |
| Averageprecipitation mm (inches) | 3.5 (0.14) | 2.3 (0.09) | 4.1 (0.16) | 10.5 (0.41) | 35.8 (1.41) | 91.8 (3.61) | 115.6 (4.55) | 108.8 (4.28) | 73.3 (2.89) | 14.4 (0.57) | 2.8 (0.11) | 1.7 (0.07) | 464.6 (18.29) |
| Average precipitation days(≥ 0.1 mm) | 4.0 | 3.5 | 4.0 | 6.6 | 13.5 | 19.1 | 21.3 | 20.1 | 17.4 | 7.6 | 2.8 | 1.8 | 121.7 |
| Average snowy days | 5.8 | 6.2 | 8.1 | 10.1 | 17.0 | 9.2 | 1.7 | 1.8 | 9.2 | 10.6 | 5.1 | 3.5 | 88.3 |
| Averagerelative humidity (%) | 43 | 40 | 38 | 44 | 54 | 64 | 67 | 68 | 68 | 53 | 45 | 40 | 52 |
| Mean monthlysunshine hours | 231.6 | 215.1 | 242.0 | 246.7 | 258.9 | 231.3 | 218.3 | 214.7 | 218.4 | 256.8 | 248.3 | 244.5 | 2,826.6 |
| Percentagepossible sunshine | 72 | 68 | 65 | 63 | 60 | 54 | 51 | 53 | 60 | 74 | 80 | 79 | 65 |
| Source:China Meteorological Administration[3][4] | |||||||||||||
Amdo railway station offers a train operated once every 2 days to Lhasa, Lanzhou and Xining respectively. National highway G109 also passes downtown Amdo county.
32°15′50″N91°40′50″E / 32.26389°N 91.68056°E /32.26389; 91.68056
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