Chamdo

Coordinates: 31°08′35″N 97°10′12″E / 31.143°N 97.170°E / 31.143; 97.170
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Qamdo
昌都市
ཆབ་མདོ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།
China Standard)
ISO 3166 codeCN-XZ-03
Qamdo
Tibetan
ཆབ་མདོ།

Chamdo, officially Qamdo

Lhasa and Shigatse.[5]

Chamdo is divided into 11 county-level divisions: one district and ten counties. The main district is Karuo District. Other counties include Jonda County, Gonjo County, Riwoche County, Dengqen County, Zhag'yab County, Baxoi County, Zognang County, Maarkam County, Lhorong County, and Banbar County.

History

On 11 July 2014 Chamdo Prefecture was upgraded into a prefecture-level city.[6]

Languages

Languages spoken in Chamdo include Khams Tibetan and the Chamdo languages of Lamo, Larong, and Drag-yab.[7]

Transportation

Air

Karub District
. The long commute (2.5 hours by mountain road) is the result of no flat land closer to the city being available to construct an airport.

Road

China National Highway 214 and China National Highway 317 are the main roads in and out of Chamdo.

Subdivisions

Aerial view of Banbar County, Chamdo.

The city is subdivided into 11

counties

Map
Name
Hanzi
Hanyu Pinyin
Tibetan
Wylie Population (2010 Census) Area (km2) Density (/km2)
Karuo District
卡若区 Kǎruò Qū མཁར་རོ་ཆུས། mkhar ro chus 116,500 10,794 10.79
Jomda County 江达县 Jiāngdá Xiàn འཇོ་མདའ་རྫོང་། 'jo mda' rdzong 76,026 13,164 5.77
Gonjo County 贡觉县 Gòngjué Xiàn གོ་འཇོ་རྫོང་། go 'jo rdzong 40,434 6,323 6.39
Riwoqê County
类乌齐县 Lèiwūqí Xiàn རི་བོ་ཆེ་རྫོང་། ri bo che rdzong 49,870 6,355 7.84
Dêngqên County 丁青县 Dīngqīng Xiàn སྟེང་ཆེན་རྫོང་། steng chen rdzong 69,888 12,408 5.63
Zhag'yab County 察雅县 Cháyǎ Xiàn བྲག་གཡབ་རྫོང་། brag g-yab rdzong 56,789 8,251 6.88
Baxoi County
八宿县 Bāsù Xiàn དཔའ་ཤོད་རྫོང་། dpa' shod rdzong 39,021 12,336 3.16
Zogang County 左贡县 Zuǒgòng Xiàn མཛོ་སྒང་རྫོང་། mdzo sgang rdzong 44,320 11,837 3.74
Markam County 芒康县 Mángkāng Xiàn སྨར་ཁམས་རྫོང་། smar khams rdzong 81,399 11,576 7.03
Lhorong County 洛隆县 Luòlóng Xiàn ལྷོ་རོང་རྫོང་། lho rong rdzong 47,491 8,048 5.90
Banbar County 边坝县 Biānbà Xiàn དཔལ་འབར་རྫོང་། dpal 'bar rdzong 35,767 8,774 4.07

Climate

Chamdo has a humid continental climate (Köppen: Dwb) in the Karub District and an alpine subarctic climate (Köppen: Dwc) in other counties.

Climate data for Chamdo (
Karuo District
, 1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–2010)
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Record high °C (°F) 21.8
(71.2)
21.4
(70.5)
26.1
(79.0)
28.1
(82.6)
29.5
(85.1)
32.7
(90.9)
32.0
(89.6)
30.8
(87.4)
30.5
(86.9)
27.7
(81.9)
22.3
(72.1)
20.2
(68.4)
32.7
(90.9)
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) 8.8
(47.8)
10.7
(51.3)
13.5
(56.3)
16.9
(62.4)
21.0
(69.8)
23.8
(74.8)
24.3
(75.7)
23.9
(75.0)
21.9
(71.4)
17.5
(63.5)
13.2
(55.8)
10.0
(50.0)
17.1
(62.8)
Daily mean °C (°F) −1.5
(29.3)
1.4
(34.5)
4.8
(40.6)
8.3
(46.9)
12.4
(54.3)
15.6
(60.1)
16.4
(61.5)
15.8
(60.4)
13.4
(56.1)
8.4
(47.1)
2.8
(37.0)
−1.1
(30.0)
8.1
(46.5)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) −9.4
(15.1)
−6.4
(20.5)
−2.3
(27.9)
1.7
(35.1)
5.7
(42.3)
9.5
(49.1)
10.9
(51.6)
10.3
(50.5)
7.7
(45.9)
2.1
(35.8)
−4.6
(23.7)
−8.9
(16.0)
1.4
(34.5)
Record low °C (°F) −19.4
(−2.9)
−17.4
(0.7)
−13.0
(8.6)
−7.7
(18.1)
−4.0
(24.8)
1.1
(34.0)
2.9
(37.2)
1.1
(34.0)
−0.9
(30.4)
−7.0
(19.4)
−13.6
(7.5)
−20.7
(−5.3)
−20.7
(−5.3)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 1.6
(0.06)
4.0
(0.16)
10.5
(0.41)
23.9
(0.94)
42.2
(1.66)
80.7
(3.18)
110.7
(4.36)
102.8
(4.05)
75.2
(2.96)
33.1
(1.30)
4.8
(0.19)
1.3
(0.05)
490.8
(19.32)
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) 2.2 3.6 6.3 11.3 13.5 18.6 19.9 18.9 17.0 9.8 2.9 1.3 125.3
Average snowy days 3.9 7.3 11.0 6.9 0.6 0.1 0 0 0.1 2.9 4.8 2.9 40.5
Average
relative humidity
(%)
34 35 40 47 49 58 65 66 66 58 45 37 50
Mean monthly sunshine hours 204.1 184.8 202.9 201.4 215.1 188.9 190.2 192.6 192.4 199.0 205.0 212.3 2,388.7
Percent possible sunshine 63 59 54 52 50 45 44 47 53 57 65 68 55
Source: China Meteorological Administration[8][9]

References

  1. ^ "2021年昌都市国民经济和社会发展统计公报" (in Chinese). 11 May 2022. Retrieved 12 May 2021.
  2. .
  3. ^ "New city to be established in China's Tibet". The State Council of the People's Republic of China. Xinhua. Archived from the original on 27 July 2018. Retrieved 9 August 2017.
  4. . PINYIN= Changdu Zhen
  5. ^ Buckley and Straus 1986, p. 215.
  6. Xinhua Qinghai (in Chinese (China)). Archived from the original
    on 6 November 2014. Retrieved 5 November 2014.
  7. .
  8. ^ 中国气象数据网 – WeatherBk Data (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 27 August 2023.
  9. ^ 中国气象数据网 (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 27 August 2023.

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