Karub District
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Karub 卡若区 • མཁར་རོ་ཆུས། |
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South of Karub
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 Location of Chamdo County within Tibet |
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| Coordinates: 32°16′34″N 97°15′41″E / 32.27611°N 97.26139°E | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Tibet |
| Prefecture | Qamdo |
| Capital | Chamdo |
| Time zone | China Standard (UTC+8) |
Karub District (other spellings: Karuo District (after Chinese name), Kharro District (after THL transliteration of Tibetan)) 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.
Karub administers 3 towns and 12 townships.
Coordinates: 32°16′34″N 97°15′41″E / 32.27611°N 97.26139°E
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