# Amdo County

Amdo County (Tibetan: ཨ་མདོ་རྫོང་; Chinese: 安多县) is a county within Nagqu of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. The county covers an area of 43,410.85 square kilometres and is dominated by mainly by Tibetan grassland. In 2000 it had a population of 32,843 .
Its capital is Amdo Town, north of Lhasa. It contains the Amdo railway station on the new railway from Golmud to Lhasa. There is a major rail depot 3 km (1.9 mi) west of the town. Cona Lake lies to the southwest of the town of Amdo.

## Administrative divisions

Amdo county contains the following 4 towns and 9 townships:
| Name | Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie |
| Towns |||||
| Pagnag Town | 帕那镇 | Pànà zhèn | བྲག་ནག་གྲོང་རྡལ། | brag nag grong rdal |
| Qangma Town | 强玛镇 | Qiángmǎ zhèn | བྱང་མ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | byang ma grong rdal |
| Zaring Town | 扎仁镇 | Zhārén zhèn | ཁྲ་རིང་གྲོང་རྡལ། | khra ring grong rdal |
| Yanshipin Town* | 雁石坪镇 | Yànshípíng zhèn | ཡན་ཤིས་ཕིན་གྲོང་རྡལ། | yan shis phin grong rdal |
| Townships |||||
| Töma Township* | 多玛乡 | Duōmǎ xiāng | སྟོད་མ་ཤང་། | stod ma shang |
| Marchu Township* | 玛曲乡 | Mǎqǔ xiāng | དམར་ཆུ་ཤང་། | dmar chu shang |
| Dardü Township | 滩堆乡 | Tānduī xiāng | དར་མདུད་ཤང་། | dar mdud shang |
| Bangmer Township | 帮爱乡 | Bāng'ài xiāng | སྦང་མེར་ཤང་། | sbang mer shang |
| Marrong Township* | 玛荣乡 | Mǎróng xiāng | དམར་རོང་ཤང་། | dmar rong shang |
| Zhachu Township (Sibnak Chenchungo) | 扎曲乡 | Zhāqǔ xiāng | བཀྲ་ཆུ་ཤང་། | bra chu shang |
| Sewu Township* | 色务乡 | Sèwù xiāng | སེའུ་ཤང་། | se'u shang |
| Coma Township | 措玛乡 | Cuòmǎ xiāng | མཚོ་དམར་ཤང་། | mtsho dmar shang |
| Gangnyi Township* | 岗尼乡 | Gǎngní xiāng | སྐང་གཉིས་ཤང་། | skang gnyis shang |
| * Although being administered by Amdo County, Yanshipin, Gangnyi, Marchu, Sewu, Marrong and Töma are partially or entirely located within the borders of Qinghai province. |||||

## Climate

Climate data for Amdo, elevation 4,800 m (15,700 ft), (1991–2020 normals) :
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | −5.5 (22.1) | −2.8 (27.0) | 1.3 (34.3) | 5.5 (41.9) | 9.4 (48.9) | 13.3 (55.9) | 14.4 (57.9) | 14.0 (57.2) | 11.6 (52.9) | 5.9 (42.6) | 0.1 (32.2) | −3.6 (25.5) | 5.3 (41.5) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −13.6 (7.5) | −10.7 (12.7) | −6.5 (20.3) | −2.1 (28.2) | 2.5 (36.5) | 6.7 (44.1) | 8.4 (47.1) | 8.1 (46.6) | 5.2 (41.4) | −1.2 (29.8) | −8.2 (17.2) | −12.3 (9.9) | −2.0 (28.4) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −20.8 (−5.4) | −18.1 (−0.6) | −13.8 (7.2) | −8.6 (16.5) | −3.3 (26.1) | 1.6 (34.9) | 3.8 (38.8) | 3.5 (38.3) | 0.7 (33.3) | −6.4 (20.5) | −14.6 (5.7) | −19.6 (−3.3) | −8.0 (17.7) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 3.5 (0.14) | 2.3 (0.09) | 4.1 (0.16) | 10.5 (0.41) | 35.8 (1.41) | 91.8 (3.61) | 115.6 (4.55) | 108.8 (4.28) | 73.3 (2.89) | 14.4 (0.57) | 2.8 (0.11) | 1.7 (0.07) | 464.6 (18.29) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 4.0 | 3.5 | 4.0 | 6.6 | 13.5 | 19.1 | 21.3 | 20.1 | 17.4 | 7.6 | 2.8 | 1.8 | 121.7 |
| Average snowy days | 5.8 | 6.2 | 8.1 | 10.1 | 17.0 | 9.2 | 1.7 | 1.8 | 9.2 | 10.6 | 5.1 | 3.5 | 88.3 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 43 | 40 | 38 | 44 | 54 | 64 | 67 | 68 | 68 | 53 | 45 | 40 | 52 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 231.6 | 215.1 | 242.0 | 246.7 | 258.9 | 231.3 | 218.3 | 214.7 | 218.4 | 256.8 | 248.3 | 244.5 | 2,826.6 |
| Percent possible sunshine | 72 | 68 | 65 | 63 | 60 | 54 | 51 | 53 | 60 | 74 | 80 | 79 | 65 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration ||||||||||||||

## Transportation

Amdo railway station offers a train operated once every 2 days to Lhasa, Lanzhou and Xining respectively. National highway G109 also passes downtown Amdo county.