Amdo County

{{Infobox settlement

| name = Amdo County

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| native_name = {{lower|0.1em|{{nobold|{{lang|zh-hans|安多县}} • {{Bo-textonly|ཨ་མདོ་རྫོང་།}}}}}}

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| settlement_type = County

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| image_skyline = Pana Town of Amdo County.jpg

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| image_map = Location of Amdo County within Xizang (China).png

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| map_caption = Location of Amdo County within Tibet Autonomous Region

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| pushpin_label_position =

| pushpin_map_caption = Location of the seat in Tibet Autonomous Region

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| subdivision_type = Country

| subdivision_name = China

| subdivision_type1 = Autonomous region

| subdivision_name1 = Tibet

| subdivision_type2 = Prefecture-level city

| subdivision_name2 = Nagqu

|seat_type = County seat

| seat = Pagnag

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| area_total_km2 = 43410.85

| elevation_m =

| population_as_of = 2020

| population_footnotes = {{cite web |url = http://www.xznqnews.com/zhengwu/dzzwgk/202107/t20210713_3763844.html |title =那曲市第七次全国人口普查主要数据公报 |publisher = Statistics Bureau of Nagqu |language = zh |date = 2021-07-09 }}

| population_note =

| population_total = 39683

| population_density_km2 = auto

| timezone = China Standard

| utc_offset = +8

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| coordinates = {{coord|32|15|50|N|91|40|50|E|type:adm3rd_region:CN-54|display=inline}}

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| website = {{URL|http://www.xzad.gov.cn/}}

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{{Infobox Chinese

|tib=ཨ་མདོ་རྫོང་།|wylie=a mdo rdzong |zwpy=Amdo Zong

|order=st |s=安多县 |t=安多縣 |p=Ānduō Xiàn |j=ngon¹do¹ jyun²}}

Amdo County ({{bo|t=ཨ་མདོ་རྫོང་}}; {{zh|s=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 .{{cite web|url=https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=zh-CN&u=http://www.hudong.com/wiki/%25E5%25AE%2589%25E5%25A4%259A%25E5%258E%25BF&ei=r96CT-CzMYbN0QXSsp38Bg&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CFwQ7gEwAw&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%25E5%25AE%2589%25E5%25A4%259A%25E7%25B8%25A3%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26hs%3Dklu%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26prmd%3Dimvns|script-title=zh:安多縣|publisher=Hudong Encyclopedia|access-date=9 April 2012|language=zh}}

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 {{convert|3|km|abbr=on}} west of the town. Cona Lake lies to the southwest of the town of Amdo.

Administrative divisions

Amdo county contains the following 4 towns and 9 townships:

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! Name

! Chinese

! Hanyu Pinyin

! Tibetan

! Wylie

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| colspan="5" style="text-align:center; background:#d3d3d3;"|Towns

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| Pagnag Town

|{{lang|zh-hans|帕那镇}}

| {{transl|zh|Pànà zhèn}}

|{{bo-textonly|བྲག་ནག་གྲོང་རྡལ།}}

|{{transl|bo|brag nag grong rdal}}

Qangma Town

|{{lang|zh-hans|强玛镇}}

| {{transl|zh|Qiángmǎ zhèn}}

|{{bo-textonly|བྱང་མ་གྲོང་རྡལ།}}

|{{transl|bo|byang ma grong rdal}}

Zaring Town

|{{lang|zh-hans|扎仁镇}}

| {{transl|zh|Zhārén zhèn}}

|{{bo-textonly|ཁྲ་རིང་གྲོང་རྡལ།}}

|{{transl|bo|khra ring grong rdal}}

Yanshipin Town*

|{{lang|zh-hans|雁石坪镇}}

| {{transl|zh|Yànshípíng zhèn}}

|{{bo-textonly|ཡན་ཤིས་ཕིན་གྲོང་རྡལ།}}

|{{transl|bo|yan shis phin grong rdal}}

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| colspan="5" style="text-align:center; background:#d3d3d3;"|Townships

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| Töma Township*

|{{lang|zh-hans|多玛乡}}

| {{transl|zh|Duōmǎ xiāng}}

|{{bo-textonly|སྟོད་མ་ཤང་།}}

|{{transl|bo|stod ma shang}}

Marchu Township*

|{{lang|zh-hans|玛曲乡}}

| {{transl|zh|Mǎqǔ xiāng}}

|{{bo-textonly|དམར་ཆུ་ཤང་།}}

|{{transl|bo|dmar chu shang}}

Dardü Township

|{{lang|zh-hans|滩堆乡}}

| {{transl|zh|Tānduī xiāng}}

|{{bo-textonly|དར་མདུད་ཤང་།}}

|{{transl|bo|dar mdud shang}}

Bangmer Township

|{{lang|zh-hans|帮爱乡}}

| {{transl|zh|Bāng'ài xiāng}}

|{{bo-textonly|སྦང་མེར་ཤང་།}}

|{{transl|bo|sbang mer shang}}

Marrong Township*

|{{lang|zh-hans|玛荣乡}}

| {{transl|zh|Mǎróng xiāng}}

|{{bo-textonly|དམར་རོང་ཤང་།}}

|{{transl|bo|dmar rong shang}}

Zhachu Township
(Sibnak Chenchungo)

|{{lang|zh-hans|扎曲乡}}

| {{transl|zh|Zhāqǔ xiāng}}

|{{bo-textonly|བཀྲ་ཆུ་ཤང་།}}

|{{transl|bo|bra chu shang}}

Sewu Township*

|{{lang|zh-hans|色务乡}}

| {{transl|zh|Sèwù xiāng}}

|{{bo-textonly|སེའུ་ཤང་།}}

|{{transl|bo|se'u shang}}

Coma Township

|{{lang|zh-hans|措玛乡}}

| {{transl|zh|Cuòmǎ xiāng}}

|{{bo-textonly|མཚོ་དམར་ཤང་།}}

|{{transl|bo|mtsho dmar shang}}

Gangnyi Township*

|{{lang|zh-hans|岗尼乡}}

| {{transl|zh|Gǎngní xiāng}}

|{{bo-textonly|སྐང་གཉིས་ཤང་།}}

|{{transl|bo|skang gnyis shang}}

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

Climate

{{Weather box|width=auto

|metric first=y

|single line=y

|collapsed = Y

|location = Amdo, elevation {{convert|4800|m|ft|abbr=on}}, (1991–2020 normals)

|Jan high C = -5.5

|Feb high C = -2.8

|Mar high C = 1.3

|Apr high C = 5.5

|May high C = 9.4

|Jun high C = 13.3

|Jul high C = 14.4

|Aug high C = 14.0

|Sep high C = 11.6

|Oct high C = 5.9

|Nov high C = 0.1

|Dec high C = -3.6

|Jan mean C = -13.6

|Feb mean C = -10.7

|Mar mean C = -6.5

|Apr mean C = -2.1

|May mean C = 2.5

|Jun mean C = 6.7

|Jul mean C = 8.4

|Aug mean C = 8.1

|Sep mean C = 5.2

|Oct mean C = -1.2

|Nov mean C = -8.2

|Dec mean C = -12.3

|Jan low C = -20.8

|Feb low C = -18.1

|Mar low C = -13.8

|Apr low C = -8.6

|May low C = -3.3

|Jun low C = 1.6

|Jul low C = 3.8

|Aug low C = 3.5

|Sep low C = 0.7

|Oct low C = -6.4

|Nov low C = -14.6

|Dec low C = -19.6

|precipitation colour = green

|Jan precipitation mm = 3.5

|Feb precipitation mm = 2.3

|Mar precipitation mm = 4.1

|Apr precipitation mm = 10.5

|May precipitation mm = 35.8

|Jun precipitation mm = 91.8

|Jul precipitation mm = 115.6

|Aug precipitation mm = 108.8

|Sep precipitation mm = 73.3

|Oct precipitation mm = 14.4

|Nov precipitation mm = 2.8

|Dec precipitation mm = 1.7

|unit precipitation days = 0.1 mm

|Jan precipitation days = 4.0

|Feb precipitation days = 3.5

|Mar precipitation days = 4.0

|Apr precipitation days = 6.6

|May precipitation days = 13.5

|Jun precipitation days = 19.1

|Jul precipitation days = 21.3

|Aug precipitation days = 20.1

|Sep precipitation days = 17.4

|Oct precipitation days = 7.6

|Nov precipitation days = 2.8

|Dec precipitation days = 1.8

|year precipitation days =

|Jan humidity = 43

|Feb humidity = 40

|Mar humidity = 38

|Apr humidity = 44

|May humidity = 54

|Jun humidity = 64

|Jul humidity = 67

|Aug humidity = 68

|Sep humidity = 68

|Oct humidity = 53

|Nov humidity = 45

|Dec humidity = 40

|Jan sun = 231.6

|Feb sun = 215.1

|Mar sun = 242.0

|Apr sun = 246.7

|May sun = 258.9

|Jun sun = 231.3

|Jul sun = 218.3

|Aug sun = 214.7

|Sep sun = 218.4

|Oct sun = 256.8

|Nov sun = 248.3

|Dec sun = 244.5

|year sun =

| Jan percentsun = 72

| Feb percentsun = 68

| Mar percentsun = 65

| Apr percentsun = 63

| May percentsun = 60

| Jun percentsun = 54

| Jul percentsun = 51

| Aug percentsun = 53

| Sep percentsun = 60

| Oct percentsun = 74

| Nov percentsun = 80

| Dec percentsun = 79

| year percentsun =

|Jan snow days = 5.8

|Feb snow days = 6.2

|Mar snow days = 8.1

|Apr snow days = 10.1

|May snow days = 17.0

|Jun snow days = 9.2

|Jul snow days = 1.7

|Aug snow days = 1.8

|Sep snow days = 9.2

|Oct snow days = 10.6

|Nov snow days = 5.1

|Dec snow days = 3.5

|year snow days =

|source 1 = China Meteorological Administration{{cite web |url=http://data.cma.cn/data/weatherBk.html |script-title=zh:中国气象数据网 – WeatherBk Data |publisher=China Meteorological Administration |language = zh-hans |access-date=27 September 2023}}

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Transportation

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.

Gallery

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References

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Category:Counties of Tibet

Category:Nagqu

Category:Amdo