Amdo County

Amdo County
安多县ཨ་མདོ་རྫོང་།
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
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinĀnduō Xiàn
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutpingngon1do1 jyun2
Tibetan name
Tibetanཨ་མདོ་རྫོང་།
Transcriptions
Wyliea mdo rdzong
Tibetan PinyinAmdo Zong

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.

  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.