Karub District also known as Kharro or Karuo, is a district in Qamdo, in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, and the seat of government of Qamdo. Karuo 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.[citation needed]

Popular with tourists are the Galden Jampaling Monastery in the capital and the salt mines and hot springs at Yangjing.[citation needed]

Administrative divisions

Karub administers 3 towns and 12 townships.

NameChineseHanyu PinyinTibetanWyliePopulation (2010)Area (km2)
Towns
Chengguan Town城关镇Chéngguān Zhènཁྲིན་ཀོན་གྲོང་རྡལkhrin kon grong rdal2195.39
Guro Town俄洛镇Éluò Zhènའགུ་རོ་གྲོང་རྡལagu ro grong rdal9776.74
Karuo Town卡若镇Kǎruò Zhènམཁར་རོ་གྲོང་རྡལmkhar ro grong rdal11649.42
Townships
Mongda Township芒达乡Mángdá Xiāngརྨོ་མདའ་ཤངrmo mda' shang8440.24
Sagang Township沙贡乡Shāgòng Xiāngས་རྒང་ཤངsa rgang shang42589.70
Ormaika Township若巴乡Ruòbā Xiāngཨོར་སྨད་ཁ་ཤངor smad kha shang1897.33
Ngêxi Township埃西乡Āixī Xiāngརྔེ་གཤེས་ཤངrnge gshes shang18422.93
Ruxi Township如意乡Rúyì Xiāngརུ་བཞི་ཤངru bzhi shang4329.80
Retong Township日通乡Rìtōng Xiāngརེ་ཐོང་ཤངre thong shang0546.76
Cêrwai Township柴维乡Cháiwéi Xiāngཚེར་དབད་ཤངtsher dbad shang–6946.19
Toba Township妥坝乡Tuǒbà Xiāngཐོ་པ་ཤངtho ba shang31,769.10
Karma Township嘎玛乡Gāmǎ Xiāngཀ་རྨ་ཤངka rma shang7498.93
Mainda Township面达乡Miàndá Xiāngསྨན་མདའ་ཤངsman mda' shang2.51,085.23
Yorba Township约巴乡Yuēbā Xiāngཡོར་པ་ཤངyor pa shang6486.81
Latog Township拉多乡Lāduō Xiāngལྷ་ཐོག་ཤངlha thog shang131,728.35

See also

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