Qamdo
Chamdo, officially Qamdo and also known in Chinese as Changdu, is a prefecture-level city in the eastern part of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China. Its seat is the town of Chengguan in Karuo District.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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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.
Qamdo
- Type: City with 761,000 residents
- Description: prefecture-level city in Tibet Autonomous Region of China
- Also known as: “Chamdo”, “Chamdo City”, “chang du”, “Changdu”, “Changdu City”, “Changdu Shi”, “Qamdo City”, “Tsiamdo”, and “ཆབ་མདོ་ས་གནས”
- Historically known as: “Ch’ang-tu Chuan-ch’ü”, “Ch’ang-tu Ti-ch’ü”, and “Changdu Diqu”
- Categories: prefecture-level city, big city, and locality
- Location: Tibet, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude of center
31.1435° or 31° 8′ 37″ northLongitude of center
97.1712° or 97° 10′ 16″ eastPopulation
761,000Elevation
4,737 metres (15,541 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
node 244081578OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Qamdo” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “قامدو”
- Asturian: “Chamdo”
- Basque: “Qamdo prefektura”
- Basque: “Qamdo”
- Belarusian: “Чамдо”
- Bengali: “ছাব-ম্দো বিভাগ”
- Catalan: “Qamdo”
- Cebuano: “Qamdo Shi”
- Chinese: “Chamdo Chhī”
- Chinese: “Chāngdū Shì”
- Chinese: “昌都”
- Chinese: “昌都地区” (historical)
- Chinese: “昌都地區”
- Chinese: “昌都市”
- Czech: “Čhamdo”
- Danish: “Qamdo”
- Dutch: “Chamdo (prefectuur)”
- Dutch: “Chamdo”
- Dutch: “Prefectuur Qamdo”
- Esperanto: “Ĉamdo”
- Esperanto: “Chamdo”
- Finnish: “Qamdo”
- French: “Chamdo”
- French: “préfecture de Chamdo”
- French: “préfecture de Qamdo”
- French: “Qamdo”
- Gan Chinese: “昌都市”
- German: “Chamdo”
- German: “Qamdo”
- German: “Regierungsbezirk Qamdo”
- Hakka Chinese: “Chamdo-sṳ”
- Hakka Chinese: “Tshông-tû-sṳ”
- Hebrew: “צ’אמדו”
- Hindi: “चमदो विभाग”
- Hungarian: “Csamdo”
- Irish: “Changdu”
- Italian: “Prefettura di Qamdo”
- Japanese: “チャムド・クル”
- Japanese: “チャムド・サクル”
- Japanese: “チャムド”
- Japanese: “チャムド地区”
- Japanese: “チャムド市”
- Japanese: “昌都”
- Japanese: “昌都地区”
- Kikuyu: “Chamdo”
- Korean: “참도 지구”
- Korean: “창두 지구”
- Korean: “창두시”
- Korean: “카로시”
- Lithuanian: “Čamdo prefektūra”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Chamdo”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Chamdo-chhī”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chamdo”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Qamdo”
- Norwegian: “Qamdo”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Qamdo”
- Ossetian: “Чамдо”
- Persian: “چامدو”
- Polish: “Qamdo”
- Portuguese: “Chamdo”
- Russian: “Чамдо”
- Slovenian: “Čamdo”
- Slovenian: “Qamdo”
- Spanish: “Chamdo”
- Spanish: “Changdu”
- Spanish: “Qamdo”
- Swedish: “Chamdo Prefektur”
- Swedish: “Chamdo”
- Swedish: “Qamdo”
- Thai: “ชัมโต”
- Tibetan: “Qamdo Diqu” (historical)
- Tibetan: “Qamdo Shi”
- Tibetan: “Qamdo”
- Tibetan: “ཆབ་མདོ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར་།”
- Tibetan: “ཆབ་མདོ་ས་ཁུལ།”
- Tibetan: “ཆབ་མདོ་ས་ཁུལ”
- Tibetan: “ཆབ་མདོ།”
- Turkish: “Qamdo”
- Ukrainian: “Чамдо”
- Urdu: “چامدو”
- Venetian: “Prefettura de Qamdo”
- Vietnamese: “Qamdo”
- Welsh: “Chamdo”
- Wu Chinese: “昌都市”
- Yue Chinese: “昌都”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Qamdo”. Photo: christiali, CC BY 3.0.