Amdo County
Amdo (: a mdo rdzong, Tibetan: ཨ་མདོ་རྫོང ) is a county of the district of Nagqu in Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China.
In Amdo, there is now a station of the new railway from Golmud to Lhasa.
Administrative Divisions
At the community level, the circuit is composed of four large municipalities and nine municipalities. These are (official spelling / Chinese):
- Greater community Pagnag帕 那 镇
- Greater community Zaring扎 仁 镇
- Greater community Yanshiping雁 石 坪镇
- Greater community Qangma强 玛 镇
- Community Maqu玛曲 乡
- Community Comar措 玛 乡
- Community Bangmêr帮 爱 乡
- Community Tandü滩 堆 乡
- Community Zhaqu扎曲 乡
- Community Gangnyi岗 尼 乡
- Community Sewu色 务 乡
- Community Domar多 玛 乡
- Community Marrong玛 荣 乡
Area, population and climate
Amdo has an area of 43,410.85 km ². In 1990 had Amdo 27,744 inhabitants, of whom 27,494 were Tibetans ( 99.1%) and 238 Han Chinese (0.9%); 2000, the population had grown to 32 843 inhabitants.
The average temperature in July is 5.7 °, -17.3 ° in January. However, There are only about 150 mm of precipitation.
Ethnic structure of the population Amdos (2000)
At the census in the year 2000 32.843 inhabitants were counted in Amdo.