Gyêgu

Gyêgu (Gyêgudo) 结古镇 · སྐྱེ་དགུ་མདོ་རྡལ།
Town
Panorama of Gyêgu town and monastery in 2005
Gyêgu (Gyêgudo) Location in Qinghai
Coordinates: 33°00′11″N 97°00′36″E / 33.003°N 97.01°E / 33.003; 97.01Coordinates: 33°00′11″N 97°00′36″E / 33.003°N 97.01°E / 33.003; 97.01
Country	China
Province	Qinghai
Autonomous prefecture	Yushu Prefecture
County-level city	Yushu City
Population
• Major Nationalities	Tibetan
• Regional dialect	Tibetan language
Time zone	+8

Gyêgu is a town in Yushu City, Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai, China. Gyêgu is the modern town which developed from the old Tibetan trade mart called Jyekundo or Gyêgudo in Tibetan and most Western sources. The town is also referred to as Yushu, synonymous with the prefecture of Yushu and the city of Yushu.

The present name Gyêgu (simplified Chinese: 结古镇; traditional Chinese: 結古鎮; pinyin: Jiégǔ Zhèn) is derived from Jyekundo (སྐྱེ་དགུ་མདོ་, ZWPY: Gyêgudo, Wylie: skye dgu mdo or skye rgu mdo; simplified Chinese: 结古多; traditional Chinese: 結古多; pinyin: Jiégǔduō). The Tibetan designation skye dgu mdo indicates that it is a place where one valley opens into another one (mdo), here formed by two tributaries of the Jyegu river, Dza Chu (rdza chu) and Pel Chu (dpal chu). Since skye dgu also means men, mankind or all beings, the name could be interpreted as the ‘dwelling place of men at a valley junction’.