Karub District
This article is about the district formerly known as Chamdo County. For the town, see Chengguan, Chamdo. For the city, see Chamdo.
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South of Karub | |
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Coordinates: 32°16′34″N 97°15′41″E / 32.27611°N 97.26139°E | |
Country | China |
Province | Tibet |
Prefecture | Qamdo |
Capital | Chamdo |
Time zone | China Standard (UTC+8) |
Karub District (other spellings: Karuo District, Kharro District) is a district in Qamdo, the district is synonymous referred to as Chamdo, Qamdo, or Chengguan in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, and the seat of government of Qamdo. Karub has an area of 10,700 km² and a population of 78,000, of which 90% are Tibetan. The average temperature is 7.6 °C, with average temperatures of −2.3 °C in January and 16.3 °C in July. The average precipitation is 467 mm per year.
Popular with tourists are the Galden Jampaling Monastery in the capital and the salt mines and hot springs at Yangjing.
Administrative divisions


Karub administers 3 towns and 12 townships.
Name | Hanzi | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | Population (2010)[1] | Area (km²) |
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Chengguan Town | 城关镇 | ChéngguÄn Zhèn | à½à¾²à½²à½“་ཀོན་རྡལ་ | khrin kon rdal | 45,861 | 195.39 |
Guro Town | 俄洛镇 | Éluò Zhèn | འགུ་རོ་ | agu ro | 6,502 | 776.74 |
Karub Town | å¡è‹¥é•‡ | kÇŽ ruò Zhèn | མà½à½¢à¼‹à½¢à½¼à¼‹ | mkhar ro | 3,955 | 649.42 |
Mongda Township | 芒达乡 | Mángdá XiÄng | རྨོ་མདའ་ | rmo mda' | 3,595 | 440.24 |
Sagang Township | 沙贡乡 | ShÄgòng XiÄng | ས་རྒང་ | sa rgang | 5,079 | 589.70 |
Ormaika Township | 若巴乡 | RuòbÄ XiÄng | ཨོར་སྨད་à½à¼‹ | or smad kha | 3,400 | 897.33 |
Ngêxi Township | 埃西乡 | Ä€ixÄ« XiÄng | རྔེ་གཤེས་ | rnge gshes | 4,344 | 422.93 |
Ruxi Township | 如æ„乡 | Rúyì XiÄng | རུ་བཞི་ | ru bzhi | 3,403 | 329.80 |
Retong Township | 日通乡 | RìtÅng XiÄng | རེ་à½à½¼à½„་ | re thong | 4,925 | 546.76 |
Cêrwai Township | 柴维乡 | Cháiwéi XiÄng | ཚེར་དབད་ | tsher dbad | 7,338 | 946.19 |
Toba Township | 妥å乡 | TuÇ’bà XiÄng | à½à½¼à¼‹à½”་ | tho ba | 7,386 | 1,769.10 |
Karma Township | 嘎玛乡 | GÄmÇŽ XiÄng | ཀ་རྨ་ | ka rma | 3,806 | 498.93 |
Mainda Township | é¢è¾¾ä¹¡ | Mià ndá XiÄng | སྨན་མདའ་ | sman mda' | 5,995 | 1,085.23 |
Yorba Township | 约巴乡 | YuÄ“bÄ XiÄng | ཡོར་པ་ | yor pa | 3,736 | 486.81 |
Latog Township | 拉多乡 | LÄduÅ XiÄng | ལྷ་à½à½¼à½‚་ | lha thog | 7,175 | 1,728.35 |
References
- ↑ shi, Guo wu yuan ren kou pu cha ban gong; council, Guo jia tong ji ju ren kou he jiu ye tong ji si bian = Tabulation on the 2010 population census of the people's republic of China by township / compiled by Population census office under the state; population, Department of; statistics, employment statistics national bureau of (2012). Zhongguo 2010 nian ren kou pu cha fen xiang, zhen, jie dao zi liao (Di 1 ban. ed.). Beijing Shi: Zhongguo tong ji chu ban she. ISBN 978-7-5037-6660-2.
External links
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Media related to Karub District at Wikimedia Commons
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Coordinates: 32°16′34″N 97°15′41″E / 32.27611°N 97.26139°E
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