Karub, Qamdo facts for kids
This page is about the district formerly known as Chamdo County. For the town, see Chengguan, Chamdo. For the city, see Chamdo.
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Karub District
卡若区 • མཁར་རོ་ཆུས།
Karuo, Kharro, Chamdo
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Location of Karub District within Tibet Autonomous Region
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 Karub District
Location in Tibet
Karub District
Location in China
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| Country | China |
| Autonomous region | Tibet |
| Prefecture-level city | Chamdo |
| District seat | Chengguan |
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| • Total | 10,793.22 km2 (4,167.29 sq mi) |
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| • Total | 148,511 |
| • Density | 13.75966/km2 (35.63735/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
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| Simplified Chinese | 卡若区 | ||||||||||
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Karub District also known as Kharro or Karuo, is a district in Qamdo, in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, and the seat of government of Qamdo. Karuo 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 | Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | Population (2010) | Area (km2) |
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| Chengguan Town | 城关镇 | Chéngguān Zhèn | ཁྲིན་ཀོན་གྲོང་རྡལ | khrin kon grong rdal | 2 | 195.39 |
| Guro Town | 俄洛镇 | Éluò Zhèn | འགུ་རོ་གྲོང་རྡལ | agu ro grong rdal | 9 | 776.74 |
| Karuo Town | 卡若镇 | Kǎruò Zhèn | མཁར་རོ་གྲོང་རྡལ | mkhar ro grong rdal | 11 | 649.42 |
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| Mongda Township | 芒达乡 | Mángdá Xiāng | རྨོ་མདའ་ཤང | rmo mda' shang | 8 | 440.24 |
| Sagang Township | 沙贡乡 | Shāgòng Xiāng | ས་རྒང་ཤང | sa rgang shang | 42 | 589.70 |
| Ormaika Township | 若巴乡 | Ruòbā Xiāng | ཨོར་སྨད་ཁ་ཤང | or smad kha shang | 1 | 897.33 |
| Ngêxi Township | 埃西乡 | Āixī Xiāng | རྔེ་གཤེས་ཤང | rnge gshes shang | 18 | 422.93 |
| Ruxi Township | 如意乡 | Rúyì Xiāng | རུ་བཞི་ཤང | ru bzhi shang | 4 | 329.80 |
| Retong Township | 日通乡 | Rìtōng Xiāng | རེ་ཐོང་ཤང | re thong shang | 0 | 546.76 |
| Cêrwai Township | 柴维乡 | Cháiwéi Xiāng | ཚེར་དབད་ཤང | tsher dbad shang | –6 | 946.19 |
| Toba Township | 妥坝乡 | Tuǒbà Xiāng | ཐོ་པ་ཤང | tho ba shang | 3 | 1,769.10 |
| Karma Township | 嘎玛乡 | Gāmǎ Xiāng | ཀ་རྨ་ཤང | ka rma shang | 7 | 498.93 |
| Mainda Township | 面达乡 | Miàndá Xiāng | སྨན་མདའ་ཤང | sman mda' shang | 2.5 | 1,085.23 |
| Yorba Township | 约巴乡 | Yuēbā Xiāng | ཡོར་པ་ཤང | yor pa shang | 6 | 486.81 |
| Latog Township | 拉多乡 | Lāduō Xiāng | ལྷ་ཐོག་ཤང | lha thog shang | 13 | 1,728.35 |
See also
- Chamdo
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