Golmud

Golmud
格尔木市 · ᠭᠣᠯᠮᠣᠣᠠ ᠬᠣᠲᠠ · ན་གོར་མོ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།
Golmo
Golmud railway station
Location of Golmud City (red) in Haixi Prefecture (yellow) and Qinghai
Location of Golmud City (red) in Haixi Prefecture (yellow) and Qinghai
Golmud is located in Qinghai
Golmud
Golmud
Location of the city centre in Qinghai
Coordinates (Golmud government): 36°24′26″N 94°55′42″E / 36.4072°N 94.9283°E / 36.4072; 94.9283
CountryChina
ProvinceQinghai
Autonomous prefectureHaixi
Municipal seatKunlun Road Subdistrict
Area
119,165 km2 (46,010 sq mi)
 • Urban
72 km2 (28 sq mi)
Elevation
2,809 m (9,216 ft)
Population
 (2020)[1]
221,863
 • Density1.9/km2 (4.8/sq mi)
 • Urban
197,153
 • Urban density2,700/km2 (7,100/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Websitewww.geermu.gov.cn
Golmud
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese格尔木
Traditional Chinese格爾木
PostalGolmot
Literal meaningRivers (in Mongolian)
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinGé'ěrmù
Wade–GilesKo-erh-mu
Tibetan name
Tibetanན་གོར་མོ།
Transcriptions
WylieNa-gor-mo
Mongolian name
Mongolian scriptᠭᠣᠯᠮᠤᠳ

Golmud, also known by various other romanizations, is a county-level city in the Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Qinghai Province, China. It is now the second-largest city in Qinghai and the third largest in the Tibetan Plateau (after Xining and Lhasa). The population in 2020 is 221,863.[2][3]

  1. ^ "海西州第七次全国人口普查公报(第二号)——各市县、行委常住人口情况" (in Chinese). Government of Haixi Prefecture. 2 July 2021. Archived from the original on 4 October 2021. Retrieved 4 August 2023.
  2. ^ "Reservoir nearing collapse poses threat to Qinghai Tibet railway". Phayul. Dharamsala. 9 July 2010. Archived from the original on 9 June 2011. Retrieved 9 July 2010.
  3. ^ "Gé'ĕrmù Shì (County-level City, China) - Population Statistics, Charts, Map and Location". citypopulation.de. Retrieved 21 November 2021.