Chamdo

A large village Qamdo ( Tib: chab mdo, Tibetan: ཆབ་མདོ་, Chamdo, Chinese昌都 镇; Pinyin: Changdu Zhen ) is the third largest city in Tibet Autonomous Region (after Lhasa and Shigatse ) and capital of the district of the same with 86 280 inhabitants ( 1999) and the governmental district of Qamdo. It is located in the west of the Tibetan cultural region of Kham in the east and the Tibet Autonomous Region.

A large village located about 500 km as the crow away from Lhasa, with a road distance of 1120 km ( Southbound ) or 1030 km ( northern route ). at an altitude of 3230 m on the Mekong ( here Za Qu / Dza Chu ), which is crossed in the place of two highways. She can be reached via the airport, 130 km away from Lhasa and Chengdu Airport Bamda of by plane.

Before installation of modern roads here crossed the Tea-Horse Route, Ch Cha Ma Gu Dao (茶 马 古道), the river, whose northern road from Chengdu in Sichuan and Yunnan south branch of the Teegebieten united here. Further west, crossed the route the headwaters of the Salween, reached Lhasa and from there Bengal.

Air table

31.13388888888997.177777777778Koordinaten: 31 ° 8 ' N, 97 ° 11' O

• Place in Tibet
• Large village (China)