Karub, Qamdo

This article is about the district formerly known as Chamdo County. For the town, see Chengguan, Chamdo. For the city, see Chamdo.

Karub District^[2] also known as Kharro or Karuo, is a district in Qamdo, in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, and the seat of government of Qamdo. Karuo has an area of 10,700 km² and a population of 78,000, of which 90% are Tibetan. The average temperature is 7.6 °C, with average temperatures of −2.3 °C in January and 16.3 °C in July. The average precipitation is 467 mm per year.^{[citation needed]}

Karub District 卡若区 • མཁར་རོ་ཆུས། Karuo, Kharro, Chamdo
District
Location of Karub District within Tibet Autonomous Region
Karub Location of the seat in the Tibet AR Show map of Tibet Karub Karub (China) Show map of China
Coordinates: 32°16′34″N 97°15′41″E
Country	China
Autonomous region	Tibet
Prefecture-level city	Chamdo
District seat	Chengguan
Area
• Total	10,793.22 km2 (4,167.29 sq mi)
Population  (2020)[1]
• Total	148,511
• Density	14/km2 (36/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Website	karuo.changdu.gov.cn

Karub, Qamdo
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	卡若区
Traditional Chinese	卡若區
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Kǎruò Qū Yue: Cantonese Jyutping kaa1joek6 keoi1
Tibetan name
Tibetan	མཁར་རོ་ཆུས།
Transcriptions Wylie mkhar ro chus THL Kharro Qü Tibetan Pinyin Karub Qü

Popular with tourists are the Galden Jampaling Monastery in the capital and the salt mines and hot springs at Yangjing.^{[citation needed]}

Administrative divisions

Karub administers 3 towns and 12 townships.

Name	Chinese	Hanyu Pinyin	Tibetan	Wylie	Population (2010)[3]	Area (km2)
Towns
Chengguan Town	城关镇	Chéngguān Zhèn	ཁྲིན་ཀོན་གྲོང་རྡལ	khrin kon grong rdal	2	195.39
Guro Town	俄洛镇	Éluò Zhèn	འགུ་རོ་གྲོང་རྡལ	agu ro grong rdal	9	776.74
Karuo Town	卡若镇	Kǎruò Zhèn	མཁར་རོ་གྲོང་རྡལ	mkhar ro grong rdal	11	649.42
Townships
Mongda Township	芒达乡	Mángdá Xiāng	རྨོ་མདའ་ཤང	rmo mda' shang	8	440.24
Sagang Township	沙贡乡	Shāgòng Xiāng	ས་རྒང་ཤང	sa rgang shang	42	589.70
Ormaika Township	若巴乡	Ruòbā Xiāng	ཨོར་སྨད་ཁ་ཤང	or smad kha shang	1	897.33
Ngêxi Township	埃西乡	Āixī Xiāng	རྔེ་གཤེས་ཤང	rnge gshes shang	18	422.93
Ruxi Township	如意乡	Rúyì Xiāng	རུ་བཞི་ཤང	ru bzhi shang	4	329.80
Retong Township	日通乡	Rìtōng Xiāng	རེ་ཐོང་ཤང	re thong shang	0	546.76
Cêrwai Township	柴维乡	Cháiwéi Xiāng	ཚེར་དབད་ཤང	tsher dbad shang	–6	946.19
Toba Township	妥坝乡	Tuǒbà Xiāng	ཐོ་པ་ཤང	tho ba shang	3	1,769.10
Karma Township	嘎玛乡	Gāmǎ Xiāng	ཀ་རྨ་ཤང	ka rma shang	7	498.93
Mainda Township	面达乡	Miàndá Xiāng	སྨན་མདའ་ཤང	sman mda' shang	2.5	1,085.23
Yorba Township	约巴乡	Yuēbā Xiāng	ཡོར་པ་ཤང	yor pa shang	6	486.81
Latog Township	拉多乡	Lāduō Xiāng	ལྷ་ཐོག་ཤང	lha thog shang	13	1,728.35

See also

• China portal
• Asia portal

• Chamdo

References

1. "昌都市第七次全国人口普查主要数据公报" (in Chinese). Government of Chamdo. 2021-06-22.
2. "Aerial view of Karub District in Qamdo, Tibet". Xinhua News Agency. 2021-02-18.
3. shi, Guo wu yuan ren kou pu cha ban gong; council, Guo jia tong ji ju ren kou he jiu ye tong ji si bian = Tabulation on the 2010 population census of the people's republic of China by township / compiled by Population census office under the state; population, Department of; statistics, employment statistics national bureau of (2012). Zhongguo 2010 nian ren kou pu cha fen xiang, zhen, jie dao zi liao (Di 1 ban. ed.). Beijing Shi: Zhongguo tong ji chu ban she. ISBN 978-7-5037-6660-2.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

32°16′34″N 97°15′41″E