Chamdo
| Qamdo 昌都市 • ཆབ་མདོ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར། | |
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| Prefecture-level city | |
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 prefecture (orange) in Tibet (light-orange) | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Region | Tibet |
| Prefecture seat | Karub District (Chengguan) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 110,154 km2 (42,531 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 3,240 m (10,630 ft) |
| Population | |
| • Total | 657,505 |
| • Density | 6.0/km2 (15/sq mi) |
| Time zone | China Standard (UTC+8) |
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| Chinese | 昌都 | ||||||
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| Tibetan | ཆབ་མདོ་གྲོང | ||||||
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Chamdo, officially Qamdo, and known in Chinese as Changdu, is a prefecture-level city in the eastern part of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China. Its seat is the town of Chengguan in Karub District. Chamdo is Tibet's third largest city after Lhasa and Shigatse.[1]
History
On 11 July 2014 Chamdo Prefecture was upgraded into a prefecture-level city.[2]
Transportation
Air
Qamdo Bamda Airport, opened in 1994, is located 126 kilometres (78 miles) from Chengguan Town in Karub District.
Road
China National Highway 214 and China National Highway 317 are the main roads in and out of Chamdo.
Subdivisions
The city is subdivided into 11 county-level divisions: 1 district and 10 counties
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| # | Name | Hanzi | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | Population (2010 Census) | Area (km²) | Density (/km²) |
| 1 | Karub District | 卡若区 | Kǎruò Qū | མཁར་རོ་ཆུས། | mkhar ro chus | 116,500 | 10,794 | 10.79 |
| 2 | Jomda County | 江达县 | Jiāngdá Xiàn | འཇོ་མདའ་རྫོང་ | 'jo mda' rdzong | 76,026 | 13,164 | 5.77 |
| 3 | Gonjo County | 贡觉县 | Gòngjué Xiàn | གོ་འཇོ་རྫོང་ | go 'jo rdzong | 40,434 | 6,323 | 6.39 |
| 4 | Riwoqê County | 类乌齐县 | Lèiwūqí Xiàn | རི་བོ་ཆེ་རྫོང་ | ri bo che rdzong | 49,870 | 6,355 | 7.84 |
| 5 | Dêngqên County | 丁青县 | Dīngqīng Xiàn | སྟེང་ཆེན་རྫོང་ | steng chen rdzong | 69,888 | 12,408 | 5.63 |
| 6 | Zhag'yab County | 察雅县 | Cháyǎ Xiàn | བྲག་གཡབ་རྫོང་ | brag g-yab rdzong | 56,789 | 8,251 | 6.88 |
| 7 | Baxoi County | 八宿县 | Bāsù Xiàn | དཔའ་ཤོད་རྫོང་ | dpa' shod rdzong | 39,021 | 12,336 | 3.16 |
| 8 | Zogang County | 左贡县 | Zuǒgòng Xiàn | མཛོ་སྒང་རྫོང་ | mdzo sgang rdzong | 44,320 | 11,837 | 3.74 |
| 9 | Markam County | 芒康县 | Mángkāng Xiàn | སྨར་ཁམས་རྫོང་ | smar khams rdzong | 81,399 | 11,576 | 7.03 |
| 10 | Lhorong County | 洛隆县 | Luòlóng Xiàn | ལྷོ་རོང་རྫོང་ | lho rong rdzong | 47,491 | 8,048 | 5.90 |
| 11 | Banbar County | 边坝县 | Biānbà Xiàn | དཔལ་འབར་རྫོང་ | dpal 'bar rdzong | 35,767 | 8,774 | 4.07 |
Climate
Chamdo has a subtropical highland climate (Köppen Cwb) in Karub District and a subtropical highland climate (Köppen Cwb) or alpine subarctic climate (Köppen Dwc)in other county
| Climate data for Karub District,Chamdo | |||||||||||||
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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) |
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) |
| Average high °C (°F) | 8.7 (47.7) |
10.2 (50.4) |
13.3 (55.9) |
16.6 (61.9) |
20.9 (69.6) |
23.6 (74.5) |
24.2 (75.6) |
23.5 (74.3) |
21.6 (70.9) |
17.6 (63.7) |
12.7 (54.9) |
9.5 (49.1) |
16.87 (62.38) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −1.6 (29.1) |
1.0 (33.8) |
4.7 (40.5) |
8.1 (46.6) |
12.2 (54) |
15.3 (59.5) |
16.3 (61.3) |
15.5 (59.9) |
13.1 (55.6) |
8.4 (47.1) |
2.4 (36.3) |
−1.5 (29.3) |
7.83 (46.08) |
| Average low °C (°F) | −9.6 (14.7) |
−6.8 (19.8) |
−2.4 (27.7) |
1.4 (34.5) |
5.3 (41.5) |
9.2 (48.6) |
10.6 (51.1) |
10.0 (50) |
7.3 (45.1) |
1.8 (35.2) |
−5.0 (23) |
−9.3 (15.3) |
1.04 (33.88) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −19.4 (−2.9) |
−17.4 (0.7) |
−13 (9) |
−7.7 (18.1) |
−4.0 (24.8) |
1.1 (34) |
2.9 (37.2) |
1.1 (34) |
−0.9 (30.4) |
−7.0 (19.4) |
−13.6 (7.5) |
−20.7 (−5.3) |
−20.7 (−5.3) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 1.2 (0.047) |
3.3 (0.13) |
11.3 (0.445) |
24.4 (0.961) |
39.3 (1.547) |
85.9 (3.382) |
106.5 (4.193) |
100.5 (3.957) |
74.6 (2.937) |
34.6 (1.362) |
5.7 (0.224) |
2.0 (0.079) |
489.3 (19.264) |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration,[3] | |||||||||||||
References
- ↑ Buckley and Straus 1986, p. 215.
- ↑ Yang, Shoude. "西藏东部昌都地区将撤地设市 已获国务院批复". qh.xinhuanet.com. Xinhua. Retrieved 5 November 2014.
- ↑ 中国地面国际交换站气候标准值月值数据集（1981－2010年）. China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved January 1, 2011.
External links
Coordinates: 31°10′N 97°14′E / 31.167°N 97.233°E