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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Municipality with 149,000 residents
- Description: district in Qamdo, Tibet, China
- Also known as: “Ch’ang-tu Hsien”, “Chamdo”, “Changdu”, “Changdu Xian”, “Karub District”, “Karub, Qamdo”, “Karuo”, “Karuo District,Karuo”, “Kharro”, and “Qamdo”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Galden Jampaling Monastery.
Galden Jampaling Monastery
Buddhist temple
Galden Jampaling Monastery is a Buddhist monastery in the Chamdo Town, Tibet, China. Each year on 16 March the temple celebrates The Butter Sculpture Festival with the spectacular "Guqing" God Dance…
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Qamdo.
Qamdo
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Chengguan is a major town in the historical region of Kham in the eastern Tibet Autonomous Region of China. It is the seat of Karub District and Chamdo Prefecture, and had a population of 45,861 in 2010.
Karub
- Categories: district of China, county of China, and locality
- Location: Qamdo, Tibet, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
31.1147° or 31° 6′ 53″ northLongitude
97.1955° or 97° 11′ 44″ eastPopulation
149,000Elevation
4,063 metres (13,330 feet)Open location code
8M3V457W+V5OpenStreetMap ID
node 244081579OpenStreetMap feature
place=municipalityGeoNames ID
1280279Wikidata ID
Q778120
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Yue Chinese—“Karub” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Karub”
- Cebuano: “Qamdo Xian”
- Chinese: “Karub Khu”
- Chinese: “Kǎruò Qū”
- Chinese: “卡若”
- Chinese: “卡若区”
- Chinese: “昌都”
- Chinese: “昌都县”
- Dutch: “Chamdo (arrondissement)”
- Dutch: “Chamdo”
- French: “District de Karuo”
- French: “Karub”
- French: “kharro chü”
- French: “Xian de Qamdo”
- Gan Chinese: “卡若区”
- German: “Chamdo”
- German: “Karub”
- German: “Qamdo”
- Italian: “Contea di Qamdo”
- Japanese: “カルプ区”
- Japanese: “チャムド県”
- Korean: “창두 현”
- Korean: “카로구”
- Korean: “카뤄구”
- 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: “ཁ་རུབ”
- Tibetan: “ཆབ་མདོ་རྫོང་།”
- Tibetan: “མཁར་རོ”
- Urdu: “کاروب ضلع”
- Vietnamese: “Karuo”
- Vietnamese: “Qamdo”
- Wu Chinese: “卡若区”
- Yue Chinese: “卡若”
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