Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p "Qamdo" redirects here. For other uses, see Qamdo (disambiguation).Chamdo (Tibetan: ཆབ་མདོ་, Wylie: chab-mdo; simplified Chinese: 昌都镇; traditional Chinese: 昌都鎮; pinyin: Chāngdū Zhèn), or Qamdo, officially Chengguan (simplified Chinese: 城关镇; traditional Chinese: 城關鎮; pinyin: Chéngguān Zhèn), population in 1999 about 86,280, is a major town in the historical region of Kham in the eastern Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China. The seat of Chamdo County and Chamdo Prefecture, it is Tibet's third largest city after Lhasa and Shigatse. It is located about 600 km (370 mi) (as the crow flies) from Lhasa. On the road the distance covers 1,120 km (700 mi) (southern route) or 1,030 km (640 mi) (northern route). It is at an altitude of 3,230 m (10,600 ft) at the confluence of the rivers Za Qu and Ngom Qu which form the Lancang River, the Mekong.At the turn of the 20th century it had a population of about 12,000, a quarter of whom were monks.. }
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- Chamdo abstract ""Qamdo" redirects here. For other uses, see Qamdo (disambiguation).Chamdo (Tibetan: ཆབ་མདོ་, Wylie: chab-mdo; simplified Chinese: 昌都镇; traditional Chinese: 昌都鎮; pinyin: Chāngdū Zhèn), or Qamdo, officially Chengguan (simplified Chinese: 城关镇; traditional Chinese: 城關鎮; pinyin: Chéngguān Zhèn), population in 1999 about 86,280, is a major town in the historical region of Kham in the eastern Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China. The seat of Chamdo County and Chamdo Prefecture, it is Tibet's third largest city after Lhasa and Shigatse. It is located about 600 km (370 mi) (as the crow flies) from Lhasa. On the road the distance covers 1,120 km (700 mi) (southern route) or 1,030 km (640 mi) (northern route). It is at an altitude of 3,230 m (10,600 ft) at the confluence of the rivers Za Qu and Ngom Qu which form the Lancang River, the Mekong.At the turn of the 20th century it had a population of about 12,000, a quarter of whom were monks.".