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Golmud 格尔木市 · ན་གོར་མོ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར། |
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.png) Location of Golmud City (red) in Haixi Prefecture (yellow) and Qinghai |
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 Golmud
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| Coordinates: 36°25′N 94°53′E / 36.417°N 94.883°ECoordinates: 36°25′N 94°53′E / 36.417°N 94.883°E | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Qinghai |
| Prefecture-level city | Haixi |
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| • Sub-prefecture-level city | 124,500 km2 (48,100 sq mi) |
| • Urban | 72 km2 (28 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 2,809 m (9,216 ft) |
| Population (1999) | |
| • Sub-prefecture-level city | 200,000 |
| • Density | 1.6/km2 (4.2/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 130,000 |
| • Urban density | 1,800/km2 (4,700/sq mi) |
| Time zone | China Standard (UTC+8) |
| Website | gem |
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| Simplified Chinese | 格尔木 | ||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 格爾木 | ||||||||
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| Tibetan | ན་གོར་མོ། | ||||||||
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| Mongolian name | |||||||||
| Mongolian | ᠭᠣᠯᠮᠤᠳ | ||||||||
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Gé'ěrmù |
| Wade–Giles | Koerhmu |
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| Wylie | na-gor-mo |
Golmud (Chinese: 格尔木; pinyin: Gé'ěrmù; Tibetan: ན་གོར་མོ།, Wylie: Na-gor-mo), sometimes transliterated as Ge'ermu or Geermu, is a county-level city in Qinghai Province, China, bordering Xinjiang to the northwest and the Tibet Autonomous Region to the southwest. Administrated by Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, it is the third largest city in Qinghai and the third largest in the Tibetan Plateau (after Xining and Lhasa). The population is now about 205,700. The name of the city derives from Mongolian, and its literal meaning in the local Western Mongolian is "Rivers".
Golmud covers a total area of 124,500 square kilometres (48,100 sq mi). This includes an urban area of 72 km2 (28 sq mi). Golmud is located in the central-south part of the Qaidam Basin with an elevation of 2,809 metres (9,216 ft). Around the city there are more than 20 salt lakes of various sizes.
A large part of the county-level city of Golmud forms an exclave, separated from the rest of the county by the western "panhandle" of the Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. Administratively, the exclave forms the so-called Tanggula Town.
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