Amdo County
安多县 • ཨ་མདོ་རྫོང་། | |
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Coordinates: 32°15′50″N 91°40′50″E / 32.26389°N 91.68056°E | |
Country | China |
Autonomous region | Tibet |
Prefecture-level city | Nagqu |
County seat | Pagnag |
Area | |
• Total | 43,410.85 km2 (16,761.02 sq mi) |
Population (2020)[1] | |
• Total | 39,683 |
• Density | 0.91/km2 (2.4/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
Website | www |
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Chinese name | |||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 安多县 | ||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 安多縣 | ||||||||||
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Tibetan | ཨ་མདོ་རྫོང་། | ||||||||||
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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.