Qamdo Prefecture

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Qamdo Prefecture in Tibet Autonomous Region

Qamdo Prefecture (also: Changdu 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 Tibet 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)

The prefecture is served by Qamdo Bangda Airport.

v • d • e Tibet Autonomous Region

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Prefecture-level city	Lhasa

Prefectures	Naqgu • Ngari • Nyingchi • Qamdo • Shannan • Xigazê

See also: List of Tibet Autonomous Region County-level divisions

v • d • e Qamdo (Chamdo) Prefecture, Tibet

County-level divisions	Qamdo · Jomdo · Gonjo · Riwoqê · Dêngqên · Zhag'yab · Baxoi · Zogang · Markam · Lhorong · Banbar

Towns and villages	Baima · Baimai · Banbar · Banggaidoi · Bangru · Bolo · Bumgyê · Cêngdo · Chamdo · Chamoling · Changlung · Chido · Chongsar · Dungro · Gamtog · Garma · Gyari · Gyorxung · Gyanbe · Kargang · Lhorong · Lingza · Medogdeng · Nagjog · Ngomdo · Nujiang · Qumdo · Qu'nyido · Sumzom · Tanggar · Xabyai · Zhaxize