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Qamdo 昌都市 ཆབ་མདོ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར། | |
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Mekong River to the south of Chamdo Town | |
Location of Qamdo Prefecture within China | |
| Coordinates (Qamdo municipal government):31°08′35″N97°10′12″E / 31.143°N 97.170°E /31.143; 97.170 | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Autonomous region | Tibet |
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| Prefecture seat | Karub District (Chengguan) |
| Area | |
• Total | 110,154 km2 (42,531 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 3,240 m (10,630 ft) |
| Population (2019) | |
• Total | 798,067 |
| • Density | 7.24501/km2 (18.7645/sq mi) |
| GDP[1] | |
| • Total | CN¥ 27.9 billion US$ 4.3 billion |
| • Per capita | CN¥ 36,574 US$ 5,668 |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| ISO 3166 code | CN-XZ-03 |
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"Qamdo" in Chinese characters | |||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||
| Chinese | 昌都 | ||||||
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| Tibetan name | |||||||
| Tibetan | ཆབ་མདོ། | ||||||
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Chamdo, officiallyQamdo[2][3] (Tibetan:ཆབ་མདོ,Wylie:chab mdo,ZWPY:qamdo) and also known in Chinese asChangdu (Chinese:昌都;pinyin:Chang Du),[4] is aprefecture-level city in the eastern part of theTibet Autonomous Region, China. Its seat is the town ofChengguan inKaruo District. Chamdo is Tibet's third largest city afterLhasa andShigatse.[5]
Chamdo is divided into 11 county-level divisions: one district and ten counties. The main district is Karuo District. Other counties include Jonda County, Gonjo County, Riwoche County, Dengqen County, Zhag'yab County, Baxoi County, Zognang County, Maarkam County, Lhorong County, and Banbar County.
Wang Qimei and Zhang Guohua led 40,000People's Liberation Army soldiers in anattack against the 8,000 soldiers of theTibetan Army defending Chamdo on 7 October 1950. Over 5,700 Tibetans died after fighting 21 battles by 19 October, and Provincial GovernorNgapoi Ngawang Jigme was captured.[6] The fall of Chamdo resulted in the Tibetan government submitting to China's demands.[7]
On 11 July 2014 Chamdo Prefecture was upgraded into aprefecture-level city.[8]
Languages spoken in Chamdo includeKhams Tibetan and theChamdo languages ofLamo,Larong, andDrag-yab.[9]
From 1951 to 1954, the Chinese army constructed a 2,300 kilometre long highway fromYa'an to Lhasa that went through Chamdo.[10]

The city is subdivided into 11county-level divisions: 1district and 10counties.
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| Name | Hanzi | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | Population(2010 Census) | Area (km2) | Density (/km2) | |
| Karuo District | 卡若区 | Kǎruò Qū | མཁར་རོ་ཆུས། | mkhar ro chus | 116,500 | 10,794 | 10.79 | |
| Jomda County | 江达县 | Jiāngdá Xiàn | འཇོ་མདའ་རྫོང་། | 'jo mda' rdzong | 76,026 | 13,164 | 5.77 | |
| Gonjo County | 贡觉县 | Gòngjué Xiàn | གོ་འཇོ་རྫོང་། | go 'jo rdzong | 40,434 | 6,323 | 6.39 | |
| Riwoqê County | 类乌齐县 | Lèiwūqí Xiàn | རི་བོ་ཆེ་རྫོང་། | ri bo che rdzong | 49,870 | 6,355 | 7.84 | |
| Dêngqên County | 丁青县 | Dīngqīng Xiàn | སྟེང་ཆེན་རྫོང་། | steng chen rdzong | 69,888 | 12,408 | 5.63 | |
| Zhag'yab County | 察雅县 | Cháyǎ Xiàn | བྲག་གཡབ་རྫོང་། | brag g-yab rdzong | 56,789 | 8,251 | 6.88 | |
| Baxoi County | 八宿县 | Bāsù Xiàn | དཔའ་ཤོད་རྫོང་། | dpa' shod rdzong | 39,021 | 12,336 | 3.16 | |
| Zogang County | 左贡县 | Zuǒgòng Xiàn | མཛོ་སྒང་རྫོང་། | mdzo sgang rdzong | 44,320 | 11,837 | 3.74 | |
| Markam County | 芒康县 | Mángkāng Xiàn | སྨར་ཁམས་རྫོང་། | smar khams rdzong | 81,399 | 11,576 | 7.03 | |
| Lhorong County | 洛隆县 | Luòlóng Xiàn | ལྷོ་རོང་རྫོང་། | lho rong rdzong | 47,491 | 8,048 | 5.90 | |
| Banbar County | 边坝县 | Biānbà Xiàn | དཔལ་འབར་རྫོང་། | dpal 'bar rdzong | 35,767 | 8,774 | 4.07 | |
Chamdo has ahumid continental climate (Köppen:Dwb) in the Karub District and an alpinesubarctic climate (Köppen:Dwc) in other counties.
| Climate data for Chamdo (Karuo District), elevation 3,315 m (10,876 ft), (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–2010) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 21.8 (71.2) | 21.4 (70.5) | 26.1 (79.0) | 28.1 (82.6) | 29.5 (85.1) | 32.7 (90.9) | 32.0 (89.6) | 30.8 (87.4) | 30.5 (86.9) | 27.7 (81.9) | 22.3 (72.1) | 20.2 (68.4) | 32.7 (90.9) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 8.8 (47.8) | 10.7 (51.3) | 13.5 (56.3) | 16.9 (62.4) | 21.0 (69.8) | 23.8 (74.8) | 24.3 (75.7) | 23.9 (75.0) | 21.9 (71.4) | 17.5 (63.5) | 13.2 (55.8) | 10.0 (50.0) | 17.1 (62.8) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −1.5 (29.3) | 1.4 (34.5) | 4.8 (40.6) | 8.3 (46.9) | 12.4 (54.3) | 15.6 (60.1) | 16.4 (61.5) | 15.8 (60.4) | 13.4 (56.1) | 8.4 (47.1) | 2.8 (37.0) | −1.1 (30.0) | 8.1 (46.5) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −9.4 (15.1) | −6.4 (20.5) | −2.3 (27.9) | 1.7 (35.1) | 5.7 (42.3) | 9.5 (49.1) | 10.9 (51.6) | 10.3 (50.5) | 7.7 (45.9) | 2.1 (35.8) | −4.6 (23.7) | −8.9 (16.0) | 1.4 (34.5) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −19.4 (−2.9) | −17.4 (0.7) | −13.0 (8.6) | −7.7 (18.1) | −4.0 (24.8) | 1.1 (34.0) | 2.9 (37.2) | 1.1 (34.0) | −0.9 (30.4) | −7.0 (19.4) | −13.6 (7.5) | −20.7 (−5.3) | −20.7 (−5.3) |
| Averageprecipitation mm (inches) | 1.6 (0.06) | 4.0 (0.16) | 10.5 (0.41) | 23.9 (0.94) | 42.2 (1.66) | 80.7 (3.18) | 110.7 (4.36) | 102.8 (4.05) | 75.2 (2.96) | 33.1 (1.30) | 4.8 (0.19) | 1.3 (0.05) | 490.8 (19.32) |
| Average precipitation days(≥ 0.1 mm) | 2.2 | 3.6 | 6.3 | 11.3 | 13.5 | 18.6 | 19.9 | 18.9 | 17.0 | 9.8 | 2.9 | 1.3 | 125.3 |
| Average snowy days | 3.9 | 7.3 | 11.0 | 6.9 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 2.9 | 4.8 | 2.9 | 40.5 |
| Averagerelative humidity (%) | 34 | 35 | 40 | 47 | 49 | 58 | 65 | 66 | 66 | 58 | 45 | 37 | 50 |
| Mean monthlysunshine hours | 204.1 | 184.8 | 202.9 | 201.4 | 215.1 | 188.9 | 190.2 | 192.6 | 192.4 | 199.0 | 205.0 | 212.3 | 2,388.7 |
| Percentagepossible sunshine | 63 | 59 | 54 | 52 | 50 | 45 | 44 | 47 | 53 | 57 | 65 | 68 | 55 |
| Source:China Meteorological Administration[11][12] | |||||||||||||
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