Amdo County
安多县 • ཨ་མདོ་རྫོང་།
County
Location of Amdo County within Tibet Autonomous Region
Location of Amdo County within Tibet Autonomous Region
Amdo County is located in Tibet
Amdo County
Amdo County
Location of the seat in Tibet Autonomous Region
Amdo County is located in China
Amdo County
Amdo County
Amdo County (China)
Coordinates: 32°15′50″N 91°40′50″E / 32.26389°N 91.68056°E / 32.26389; 91.68056
CountryChina
Autonomous regionTibet
Prefecture-level cityNagqu
County seatPagnag
Area
 • Total43,410.85 km2 (16,761.02 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)[1]
 • Total39,683
 • Density0.91/km2 (2.4/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Websitewww.xzad.gov.cn
Amdo County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese安多县
Traditional Chinese安多縣
Tibetan name
Tibetanཨ་མདོ་རྫོང་།

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 .[2]

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

Amdo county contains the following 4 towns and 9 townships:

Name Chinese Hanyu Pinyin Tibetan Wylie
Towns
Pagnag Town 帕那镇 Pànà zhèn བྲག་ནག་གྲོང་རྡལ། brag nag grong rdal
Qangma Town 强玛镇 Qiángmǎ zhèn བྱང་མ་གྲོང་རྡལ། byang ma grong rdal
Zaring Town 扎仁镇 Zhārén zhèn ཁྲ་རིང་གྲོང་རྡལ། khra ring grong rdal
Yanshipin Town* 雁石坪镇 Yànshípíng zhèn ཡན་ཤིས་ཕིན་གྲོང་རྡལ། yan shis phin grong rdal
Townships
Töma Township* 多玛乡 Duōmǎ xiāng སྟོད་མ་ཤང་། stod ma shang
Marchu Township* 玛曲乡 Mǎqǔ xiāng དམར་ཆུ་ཤང་། dmar chu shang
Dardü Township 滩堆乡 Tānduī xiāng དར་མདུད་ཤང་། dar mdud shang
Bangmer Township 帮爱乡 Bāng'ài xiāng སྦང་མེར་ཤང་། sbang mer shang
Marrong Township* 玛荣乡 Mǎróng xiāng དམར་རོང་ཤང་། dmar rong shang
Zhachu Township
(Sibnak Chenchungo) 		扎曲乡 Zhāqǔ xiāng བཀྲ་ཆུ་ཤང་། bra chu shang
Sewu Township* 色务乡 Sèwù xiāng སེའུ་ཤང་། se'u shang
Coma Township 措玛乡 Cuòmǎ xiāng མཚོ་དམར་ཤང་། mtsho dmar shang
Gangnyi Township* 岗尼乡 Gǎngní xiāng སྐང་གཉིས་ཤང་། skang gnyis shang

* 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

Climate data for Amdo (1991–2020 normals)
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) −5.5
(22.1) 		−2.8
(27.0) 		1.3
(34.3) 		5.5
(41.9) 		9.4
(48.9) 		13.3
(55.9) 		14.4
(57.9) 		14.0
(57.2) 		11.6
(52.9) 		5.9
(42.6) 		0.1
(32.2) 		−3.6
(25.5) 		5.3
(41.5)
Daily mean °C (°F) −13.6
(7.5) 		−10.7
(12.7) 		−6.5
(20.3) 		−2.1
(28.2) 		2.5
(36.5) 		6.7
(44.1) 		8.4
(47.1) 		8.1
(46.6) 		5.2
(41.4) 		−1.2
(29.8) 		−8.2
(17.2) 		−12.3
(9.9) 		−2.0
(28.4)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) −20.8
(−5.4) 		−18.1
(−0.6) 		−13.8
(7.2) 		−8.6
(16.5) 		−3.3
(26.1) 		1.6
(34.9) 		3.8
(38.8) 		3.5
(38.3) 		0.7
(33.3) 		−6.4
(20.5) 		−14.6
(5.7) 		−19.6
(−3.3) 		−8.0
(17.7)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 3.5
(0.14) 		2.3
(0.09) 		4.1
(0.16) 		10.5
(0.41) 		35.8
(1.41) 		91.8
(3.61) 		115.6
(4.55) 		108.8
(4.28) 		73.3
(2.89) 		14.4
(0.57) 		2.8
(0.11) 		1.7
(0.07) 		464.6
(18.29)
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) 4.0 3.5 4.0 6.6 13.5 19.1 21.3 20.1 17.4 7.6 2.8 1.8 121.7
Average snowy days 5.8 6.2 8.1 10.1 17.0 9.2 1.7 1.8 9.2 10.6 5.1 3.5 88.3
Average relative humidity (%) 43 40 38 44 54 64 67 68 68 53 45 40 52
Mean monthly sunshine hours 231.6 215.1 242.0 246.7 258.9 231.3 218.3 214.7 218.4 256.8 248.3 244.5 2,826.6
Percent possible sunshine 72 68 65 63 60 54 51 53 60 74 80 79 65
Source: China Meteorological Administration[3][4]

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

References

  1. ^ "那曲市第七次全国人口普查主要数据公报" (in Chinese). Statistics Bureau of Nagqu. 2021-07-09.
  2. ^ 安多縣 (in Chinese). Hudong Encyclopedia. Retrieved 9 April 2012.
  3. ^ 中国气象数据网 – WeatherBk Data (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 27 September 2023.
  4. ^ 中国气象数据网 (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 27 September 2023.

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