Amdo County

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 / 32.26389°N 91.68056°E / 32.26389; 91.68056
Country	People's Republic of China
Autonomous region	Tibet
Prefecture-level city	Nagqu
Seat	Pagnag
Area
• Total	43,410.85 km2 (16,761.02 sq mi)
Population  (2000)
• Total	32,843
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)

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]

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)
• (དར་མདུད་, 滩堆乡)
• (སྲིབ་ནག་ཆེན་ཆུ་མགོ་, 扎曲乡)
• Gangnyi Township (སྐང་གཉིས་, 岗尼乡)
• (དམར་ཆུ་, 玛曲乡)
• Sewu Township (སེའུ་, 色务乡)
• (དམར་རོང་, 玛荣乡)
• (སྟོད་མ་, 多玛乡)
• (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[]

Coordinates: 32°15′50″N 91°40′50″E / 32.26389°N 91.68056°E / 32.26389; 91.68056

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