Qamdo Prefecture
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| Qamdo Prefecture Changdu Prefecture 昌都地区 ཆབ་མདོ་ས་ཁུལ་ |
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| Country | China |
| Province | Tibet |
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| • Total | 110.154 km2 (42.531 sq mi) |
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| • Total | 657,505 |
| • Density | 6,000/km2 (15,000/sq mi) |
| Time zone | China Standard (UTC+8) |
Qamdo Prefecture (also: Changdu Prefecture) (Tibetan: ཆབ་མདོ་ས་ཁུལ་, Wylie: chab-mdo-sa-khul, ZYPY: Qamdo Sakü; simplified Chinese: 昌都地区; traditional Chinese: 昌都地區; pinyin: Chāngdū Dìqū) is a subnational entity in the eastern part of the Tibet Autonomous Region, containing the town of Qamdo. The capital of the prefecture is Qamdo County.
[edit] Subdivisions
The prefecture is subdivided into 11 county-level divisions: 11 counties
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| # | Name | Hanzi | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | Population (2003 est.) | Area (km²) | Density (/km²) |
| 1 | Qamdo County | 昌都县 | Chāngdū Xiàn | ཆབ་མདོ་རྫོང་ | chab mdo rdzong | 100,000 | 10,794 | 9 |
| 2 | Jomdo County | 江达县 | Jiāngdá Xiàn | འཇོ་མདའ་རྫོང་ | 'jo mda' rdzong | 70,000 | 13,164 | 5 |
| 3 | Gonjo County | 贡觉县 | Gòngjué Xiàn | གོ་འཇོ་རྫོང་ | go 'jo rdzong | 40,000 | 6,323 | 6 |
| 4 | Riwoqê County | 类乌齐县 | Lèiwūqí Xiàn | རི་བོ་ཆེ་རྫོང་ | ri bo che rdzong | 40,000 | 6,355 | 6 |
| 5 | Dêngqên County | 丁青县 | Dīngqīng Xiàn | སྟེང་ཆེན་རྫོང་ | steng chen rdzong | 60,000 | 12,408 | 5 |
| 6 | Zhag'yab County | 察雅县 | Cháyǎ Xiàn | བྲག་གཡབ་རྫོང་ | brag g-yab rdzong | 50,000 | 8,251 | 6 |
| 7 | Baxoi County | 八宿县 | Bāsù Xiàn | དཔའ་ཤོད་རྫོང་ | dpa' shod rdzong | 40,000 | 12,336 | 3 |
| 8 | Zogang County | 左贡县 | Zuǒgòng Xiàn | མཛོ་སྒང་རྫོང་ | mdzo sgang rdzong | 40,000 | 11,837 | 3 |
| 9 | Markam County | 芒康县 | Mángkāng Xiàn | སྨར་ཁམས་རྫོང་ | smar khams rdzong | 70,000 | 11,576 | 6 |
| 10 | Lhorong County | 洛隆县 | Luòlóng Xiàn | ལྷོ་རོང་རྫོང་ | lho rong rdzong | 40,000 | 8,048 | 5 |
| 11 | Banbar County | 边坝县 | Biānbà Xiàn | དཔལ་འབར་རྫོང་ | dpal 'bar rdzong | 30,000 | 8,774 | 3 |
The prefecture is served by Qamdo Bangda Airport.
[edit] External links
- www.changdu.gov.cn (Official Web-site)
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