Amdo County

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 by Tibetan grassland. In 2000 it had a population of 32,843 .[1]

Amdo County

安多县 • ཨ་མདོ་རྫོང་།
County
Location of Amdo County within Tibet Autonomous Region
Amdo County
Location of the seat in Tibet Autonomous Region
Coordinates: 32°15′50″N 91°40′50″E
CountryPeople's Republic of China
Autonomous regionTibet
Prefecture-level cityNagqu
SeatPagnag
Area
 • Total43,410.85 km2 (16,761.02 sq mi)
Population
 (2000)
 • Total32,843
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Amdo County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese安多县
Traditional Chinese安多縣
Tibetan name
Tibetanཨ་མདོ་རྫོང་།

Its capital is Amdo Town, north of Lhasa. It contains the Amdo railway 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)

Although being administered by Amdo County, Yanshiping, Gangnyi, Marchu, Sewu, Marrong and Töma are partially or entirely located within the borders of Qinghai province.

Transportation

Anduo railway station offers a train operated once every 2 days to Lhasa, Lanzhou and Xining respectively. National highway G109 also passes downtown Anduo county.

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


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