Karub
Karub District also known as Kharro or Karuo, is a district in Qamdo, in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, and the seat of government of Qamdo. Karuo has an area of 10,700 km2 and a population of 78,000, of which 90% are Tibetan.
- Type: City with 149,000 residents
- Description: district in Qamdo, Tibet, China
- Also known as: “Ch’ang-tu Hsien”, “Chamdo”, “Chamdo (arrondissement)”, “Changdu”, “Changdu Xian”, “Karub District”, “Karub, Qamdo”, “Karuo District,Karuo”, “Kharro”, “kharro chü”, “Qamdo”, “Xian de Qamdo”, “ཁ་རུབ”, “མཁར་རོ”, “チャムド県”, and “卡若区 མཁར་རོ་ཆུས།”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Galden Jampaling Monastery.
Galden Jampaling Monastery
Buddhist temple
Galden Jampaling Monastery is a Buddhist monastery in the Chamdo Town, Tibet, China.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Qamdo.
Karub
- Categories: district of China, county of China, and locality
- Location: Qamdo, Tibet, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
31.1147° or 31° 6′ 53″ north
Longitude
97.1955° or 97° 11′ 44″ east
Population
149,000
Elevation
4,063 metres (13,330 feet)
Open location code
8M3V457W+V5
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Yue Chinese—“Karub” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Karub”
- Cebuano: “Qamdo Xian”
- Chinese: “Kǎruò Qū”
- Chinese: “卡若区”
- Chinese: “昌都”
- Chinese: “昌都县”
- Dutch: “Chamdo”
- French: “district de Karuo”
- French: “District de Karuo”
- French: “Karub”
- Gan Chinese: “卡若区”
- German: “Karub”
- Italian: “Contea di Qamdo”
- Japanese: “カルプ区”
- Korean: “창두 현”
- Korean: “카로구”
- Korean: “카뤄구”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Karub Khu”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Karub-khu”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Qamdo”
- Norwegian: “Qamdo”
- Persian: “شهرستان کاروو”
- Persian: “منطقه کاروو”
- Russian: “Каруб”
- Spanish: “Karuo”
- Swedish: “Karub”
- Tibetan: “Qamdo Xian”
- Tibetan: “Qamdo”
- Tibetan: “ཆབ་མདོ་རྫོང་།”
- Urdu: “کاروب ضلع”
- Vietnamese: “Karuo”
- Vietnamese: “Qamdo”
- Wu Chinese: “卡若区”
- Yue Chinese: “卡若”
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