Qamdo
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.
- Type: Town with 86,300 residents
- Description: town in Chamdo, Tibet, Chima
- Also known as: “Ch’a-mu-to”, “Ch’ang-tu”, “Ch’ang-tu-hsien”, “Ch’ang-tu-tsung”, “Chamdo”, “Chamudo”, “Changdu Xian”, “Chengguan”, “Chengguan, Chamdo”, “Chhamdo”, “卡若区”, “城关”, “昌都县”, “昌都城关镇”, and “昌都市”
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.
Qamdo
- Categories: town of China and locality
- Location: Qamdo, Tibet, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
31.1409° or 31° 8′ 27″ north
Longitude
97.181° or 97° 10′ 52″ east
Population
86,300
Elevation
3,235 metres (10,614 feet)
IATA airport code
BPX
Open location code
8M3V45RJ+99
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Wu Chinese—“Qamdo” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Chengguan”
- Cebuano: “Qamdo”
- Chinese: “chéngguān zhèn”
- Chinese: “城关镇”
- Chinese: “城關鎮”
- Chinese: “昌都”
- Chinese: “昌都镇”
- Czech: “Chamdo”
- Czech: “Čhamdo”
- Dutch: “Chamdo (stad)”
- Dutch: “Chamdo”
- French: “Bourg de Chamdo”
- French: “Bourg de Chengguan”
- French: “Chamdo”
- French: “Chengguan, Chamdo”
- French: “Chengguan”
- Gan Chinese: “城关镇”
- German: “Chamdo”
- German: “Chengguan”
- German: “Qamdo”
- Indonesian: “Qamdo”
- Japanese: “カルプ区”
- Lithuanian: “Čamdo”
- Malagasy: “Qamdo”
- Malay: “Qamdo”
- Persian: “چنگوان چامدو”
- Polish: “Changdu”
- Polish: “Chengguan”
- Polish: “Czamdo”
- Polish: “Czangtu”
- Polish: “Qamdo”
- Russian: “Чамдо”
- Spanish: “Changdu”
- Spanish: “Poblado de Chamdo”
- Spanish: “Qamdo”
- Swedish: “Qamdo”
- Tibetan: “Qamdo”
- Tibetan: “ཁྲིན་ཀོན་གྲོང་རྡལ”
- Ukrainian: “Чамдо”
- Urdu: “چینگگوان، چامدو”
- Urdu: “چینگگوان”
- Vietnamese: “Xương Đô”
- Wu Chinese: “城关镇”
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