Karub

Karub District also known as Kharro or Karuo, is a district in Qamdo, in the of , and the seat of government of . Karuo has an area of 10,700 km2 and a population of 78,000, of which 90% are Tibetan.
  • City with about 149,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 4,060 metres (13,330 feet)
  • …was formerly known as “昌都县”
  • 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”
    “Qamdo”
    “卡若区 མཁར་རོ་ཆུས།”

Places of Interest

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Buddhist temple
is a Buddhist monastery in the Chamdo Town, , .

Places in the Area

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Latitude
31.1147° or 31° 6′ 53″ north
Longitude
97.1955° or 97° 11′ 44″ east
Open location code
8M3V457W+V5
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Open­Street­Map feature
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Yue Chinese—“Karub” goes by many names.
KarubBasque
Qamdo XianCebuano
Kǎruò QūChinese
卡若区Chinese
昌都Chinese
昌都县Chinese
ChamdoDutch
Chamdo (arrondissement)Dutch
カルプ区Japanese
チャムド県Japanese
창두 현Korean
카로구Korean
카뤄구Korean
Karub-khuMin Nan Chinese
QamdoNorwegian
QamdoNorwegian Bokmål
شهرستان کارووPersian
منطقه کارووPersian
КарубRussian
KarubSwedish
QamdoTibetan
Qamdo XianTibetan
ཁ་རུབTibetan
ཆབ་མདོ་རྫོང་།Tibetan
མཁར་རོTibetan
کاروب ضلعUrdu
KaruoVietnamese
QamdoVietnamese
卡若区Wu Chinese
卡若Yue Chinese

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