Amdo County
| Amdo County 安多县 • ཨ་མདོ་རྫོང་། | |
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| County | |
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.png) Location of Amdo County within Tibet | |
  Amdo County Location in Tibet | |
| Coordinates: 32°15′50″N 91°40′50″E / 32.26389°N 91.68056°E | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Tibet |
| Prefecture | Nagchu Prefecture |
| Capital | Pagnag |
| Area | |
| • Total | 43,410.85 km2 (16,761.02 sq mi) |
| Population (2000) | |
| • Total | 32,843 |
| Time zone | China Standard (UTC+8) |
Amdo County. (Tibetan ཨ་མདོ་རྫོང་; Wylie: a mdo rdzong) is a county within the Nagchu Prefecture of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. The county covers an area of 43,410.85 square kilometres and is dominated by mainly Tibetan grassland. In 2000 it had a population of 32,843 .[1]
Its capital is Amdo Town, north of Lhasa. It has a station on the new railway from Golmud to Lhasa. There is a major rail depot 3 km west of the town. Cona Lake lies to the southwest of the town of Amdo.
Administrative divisions
- Zharen Town (ཁྲ་རིང་, 扎仁镇)
- Yanshiping Town (ཡན་ཤིས་ཕིན་, 雁石坪镇)
- Qangma Town (བྱང་མ་, 强玛镇)
- Pana Town (བྲག་ནག་, 帕那镇)
- Cuoma Township (མཚོ་དམར་, 措玛乡)
- Dardü Township (དར་མདུད་, 滩堆乡)
- Sibnak Chenchungo Township (སྲིབ་ནག་ཆེན་ཆུ་མགོ་, 扎曲乡)
- Gangnyi Township (སྐང་གཉིས་, 岗尼乡)
- Marchu Township (དམར་ཆུ་, 玛曲乡)
- Sewu Township (སེའུ་, 色务乡)
- Marrong Township (དམར་རོང་, 玛荣乡)
- Töma Township (སྟོད་མ་, 多玛乡)
- Bangmer Township (སྦང་མེར་, 帮麦乡)
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Coordinates: 32°15′50″N 91°40′50″E / 32.26389°N 91.68056°E
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