Karub District

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

Karub 卡若区 • མཁར་རོ་ཆུས།
District
South of Karub
Location of Chamdo County within Tibet
Coordinates:
Country	China
Province	Tibet
Prefecture	Qamdo
Capital	Chamdo
Time zone	China Standard (UTC+8)

Karub District (other spellings: Karuo District, Kharro District) is a district in Qamdo, the district is synonymous referred to as Chamdo, Qamdo, or Chengguan in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, and the seat of government of Qamdo. Karub 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.

Popular with tourists are the Galden Jampaling Monastery in the capital and the salt mines and hot springs at Yangjing.

Administrative divisions

Karub administers 3 towns and 12 townships.

Name	Hanzi	Hanyu Pinyin	Tibetan	Wylie	Population (2010)	Area (km²)
Chengguan Town	城关镇	Chéngguān Zhèn	ཁྲིན་ཀོན་རྡལ་	khrin kon rdal	45,861	195.39
Guro Town	俄洛镇	Éluò Zhèn	འགུ་རོ་	agu ro	6,502	776.74
Karub Town	卡若镇	kǎ ruò Zhèn	མཁར་རོ་	mkhar ro	3,955	649.42
Mongda Township	芒达乡	Mángdá Xiāng	རྨོ་མདའ་	rmo mda'	3,595	440.24
Sagang Township	沙贡乡	Shāgòng Xiāng	ས་རྒང་	sa rgang	5,079	589.70
Ormaika Township	若巴乡	Ruòbā Xiāng	ཨོར་སྨད་ཁ་	or smad kha	3,400	897.33
Ngêxi Township	埃西乡	Āixī Xiāng	རྔེ་གཤེས་	rnge gshes	4,344	422.93
Ruxi Township	如意乡	Rúyì Xiāng	རུ་བཞི་	ru bzhi	3,403	329.80
Retong Township	日通乡	Rìtōng Xiāng	རེ་ཐོང་	re thong	4,925	546.76
Cêrwai Township	柴维乡	Cháiwéi Xiāng	ཚེར་དབད་	tsher dbad	7,338	946.19
Toba Township	妥坝乡	Tuǒbà Xiāng	ཐོ་པ་	tho ba	7,386	1,769.10
Karma Township	嘎玛乡	Gāmǎ Xiāng	ཀ་རྨ་	ka rma	3,806	498.93
Mainda Township	面达乡	Miàndá Xiāng	སྨན་མདའ་	sman mda'	5,995	1,085.23
Yorba Township	约巴乡	Yuēbā Xiāng	ཡོར་པ་	yor pa	3,736	486.81
Latog Township	拉多乡	Lāduō Xiāng	ལྷ་ཐོག་	lha thog	7,175	1,728.35

See also

• Chamdo