Qamdo Prefecture

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Qamdo Prefecture (Tibetan: ཆབ་མདོ་ས་ཁུལ་; Wylie: chab-mdo sa khul; simplified Chinese: 昌都地区; pinyin: Chāngdū Dìqū) is a subnational entity in the eastern part of the Tibetan Autonomous Region, containing the town of Chamdo. The capital of the prefecture is Qamdo County.

[edit] Subdivisions

The prefecture is subdivided into 11 county-level divisions: 11 counties

• Qamdo County (ཆབ་མདོ་རྫོང་ chab mdo rdzong; 昌都县 Chāngdū Xiàn)
• Jomdo County (འཇོ་མདའ་རྫོང་ 'jo mda' rdzong; 江达县 Jiāngdá Xiàn)
• Gonjo County (གོ་འཇོ་རྫོང་ go 'jo rdzong; 贡觉县 Gòngjué Xiàn)
• Riwoqê County (རི་བོ་ཆེ་རྫོང་ ri bo che rdzong; 类乌齐县 Lèiwūqí Xiàn)
• Dêngqên County (སྟེང་ཆེན་རྫོང་ steng chen rdzong; 丁青县 Dīngqīng Xiàn)
• Zhag'yab County (བྲག་གཡབ་རྫོང་ brag g-yab rdzong; 察雅县 Cháyǎ Xiàn)
• Baxoi County (དཔའ་ཤོད་རྫོང་ dpa' shod rdzong; 八宿县 Bāsù Xiàn)
• Zogang County (མཛོ་སྒང་རྫོང་ mdzo sgang rdzong; 左贡县 Zuǒgòng Xiàn)
• Markam County (སྨར་ཁམས་རྫོང་ smar khams rdzong; 芒康县 Mángkāng Xiàn)
• Lhorong County (ལྷོ་རོང་རྫོང་ lho rong rdzong; 洛隆县 Luòlóng Xiàn)
• Banbar County (དཔལ་འབར་རྫོང་ dpal 'bar rdzong; 边坝县 Biānbà Xiàn)

Prefecture-level divisions of the Tibet Autonomous Region Prefecture-level city: Lhasa Prefectures: Naqgu | Ngari | Nyingchi | Qamdo | Shannan | Xigazê

List of Tibet Autonomous Region County-level divisions