Golmud

Golmud is a county-level city in the of Qinghai Province, China. It is now the second-largest city in Qinghai and the third largest on the Tibetan Plateau. The population in 2020 was 221,863.
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  • City with 222,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 2,809 metres (9,216 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code GOQ
  • Description: county-level city in Haixi Prefecture, Qinghai Province, China
  • Also known as
    “A-erh-t’un-ch’ü-k’o-chung-hsin-ch’ü”
    “A-erh-tun-ch’ü-k’o-ha-sa-k’o-tsu-tzu-chih-ch’ü”
    “Ge’ermu”
    “ge’ermu shi”
    “Ge’ermu Zhen”
    “Golmo”
    “Golmot”
    “Golmu”
    “Golmud Shi”
    “Ka-erh-mu”
    “Karmu”
    “Ke Erh Mu”
    “Kermo”
    “Ko-erh-mu”
    “Ko-erh-mu-shih”
    “格尔木市 ན་གོར་མོ།”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Golmud and Golmud East.
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railway station, Geermu railway station…
The Qinghai–Tibet railway or Qingzang railway…

Golmud

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Latitude
36.4011° or 36° 24′ 4″ north
Longitude
94.9026° or 94° 54′ 10″ east
Open location code
8M8PCW23+F3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 315046176
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1281184
Wiki­data ID
Q858250

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Golmud” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “غولمود”
  • Asturian: “Golmud”
  • Belarusian: “Галмуд”
  • Bengali: “গোলমুদ”
  • Cebuano: “Golmud (kapital sa gatos sa Republikang Popular sa Tsina, Qinghai Sheng, lat 36,41, long 94,90)”
  • Cebuano: “Golmud Shi”
  • Chinese: “Gé’ěrmù Shì”
  • Chinese: “格尔木”
  • Chinese: “格尔木县”
  • Chinese: “格尔木市”
  • Chinese: “格尔木镇”
  • Chinese: “格爾木”
  • Chinese: “格爾木市”
  • Croatian: “Golmud”
  • Czech: “Golmud”
  • Danish: “Golmud”
  • Dutch: “Golmud”
  • Esperanto: “Golmud”
  • Estonian: “Golmud”
  • Finnish: “Golmud”
  • French: “Geermu”
  • French: “Golmud”
  • Gan Chinese: “格尔木市”
  • German: “Ge’ermu”
  • German: “Golmud”
  • German: “Kermo”
  • Greek: “Γκόλμουντ”
  • Gujarati: “ગોલમુડ”
  • Hebrew: “גולמוד”
  • Hindi: “गोलमुड”
  • Hindi: “गोलमुद”
  • Hungarian: “Golmud”
  • Indonesian: “Golmud”
  • Italian: “Golmud”
  • Japanese: “コーアルムー”
  • Japanese: “ゴルム”
  • Japanese: “ゴルムド”
  • Japanese: “ゴルムド市”
  • Japanese: “格尓木”
  • Japanese: “格爾木”
  • Japanese: “格爾木市”
  • Kannada: “ಗೊಲ್ಮುಡ್”
  • Kikuyu: “Golmud”
  • Korean: “거얼무 시”
  • Korean: “거얼무”
  • Korean: “거얼무시”
  • Korean: “골무드”
  • Korean: “골무드시”
  • Kurdish: “Golmud”
  • Latvian: “Golmuda”
  • Lithuanian: “Golmudas”
  • Malagasy: “Golmud”
  • Malay: “Golmud”
  • Marathi: “गोलमूड”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Golmud-chhī”
  • Mongolian: “Голмуд”
  • Mongolian: “ᠭᠣᠣᠯᠮᠤᠳ ᠬᠣᠲᠠ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Golmud”
  • Norwegian: “Golmud”
  • Persian: “گلمود”
  • Polish: “Ge’ermu”
  • Polish: “Golmud”
  • Russian: “Голмуд”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Golmud”
  • Sinhala: “ගොල්මඩ්”
  • Spanish: “Golmud”
  • Swedish: “Golmud Shi”
  • Swedish: “Golmud”
  • Tamil: “கோள்முட்”
  • Telugu: “గోల్ ముడ్”
  • Thai: “โกลมุด”
  • Tibetan: “གོར་མོ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།”
  • Tibetan: “གོར་མོ་རྫོང་།”
  • Tibetan: “ན་གོར་མོ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།”
  • Turkish: “Golmud”
  • Ukrainian: “Голмуд”
  • Urdu: “گولمود”
  • Vietnamese: “Cách Nhĩ Mộc”
  • Vietnamese: “Golmud”
  • Welsh: “Golmud”
  • Wu Chinese: “格尔木市”
  • Yue Chinese: “格爾木”

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