Chamdo, officially Qamdo^[2][3] (Tibetan: ཆབ་མདོ, Wylie: chab mdo, ZYPY: qamdo) and also known in Chinese as Changdu (Chinese: 昌都; pinyin: Chang Du),^[4] 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. Chamdo is Tibet's third largest city after Lhasa and Shigatse.^[5]

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Quick Facts Qamdo 昌都市ཆབ་མདོ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།, Country ...

Qamdo 昌都市 ཆབ་མདོ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།
Prefecture-level city
Mekong River to the south of Chamdo Town
Location of Qamdo Prefecture within China
Coordinates (Qamdo municipal government): 31°08′35″N 97°10′12″E
Country	People's Republic of China
Autonomous region	Tibet
County-level divisions	1 district 10 counties
Prefecture seat	Karub District (Chengguan)
Area
• Total	110,154 km2 (42,531 sq mi)
Elevation	3,240 m (10,630 ft)
Population  (2019)
• Total	798,067
• Density	7.2/km2 (19/sq mi)
GDP[1]
• Total	CN¥ 27.9 billion US$ 4.3 billion
• Per capita	CN¥ 36,574 US$ 5,668
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
ISO 3166 code	CN-XZ-03

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Quick Facts Qamdo, Chinese name ...

Qamdo
"Qamdo" in Chinese characters
Chinese name
Chinese	昌都
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Chāngdū
Tibetan name
Tibetan	ཆབ་མདོ།
Transcriptions Wylie chab mdo Tibetan Pinyin Qamdo

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Chamdo is divided into 11 county-level divisions: one district and ten counties. The main district is Karuo District. Other counties include Jonda County, Gonjo County, Riwoche County, Dengqen County, Zhag'yab County, Baxoi County, Zognang County, Maarkam County, Lhorong County, and Banbar County.

On 11 July 2014 Chamdo Prefecture was upgraded into a prefecture-level city.^[6]

Languages spoken in Chamdo include Khams Tibetan and the Chamdo languages of Lamo, Larong, and Drag-yab.^[7]

The city is subdivided into 11 county-level divisions: 1 district and 10 counties

Chamdo has a humid continental climate (Köppen: Dwb) in the Karub District and an alpine subarctic climate (Köppen: Dwc) in other counties.