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Damdoi

township in Dêngqên, Qamdo, Tibet, China

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ4013725 ↗
Source-derived summary

Damdoi (Tibetan: གཏམ་སྟོད་; Chinese: 当堆乡) is a township in Dêngqên County, in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. It lies at an altitude of 3,789 metres. It has a population of about 5,912 (2008).

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The public source identifies “Damdoi” as township in Dêngqên, Qamdo, Tibet, China. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Damdoi, township and Dêngqên.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2008—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Damdoi, township and Dêngqên providing the first useful test.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4013725. Authority coordinates are 31.208, 95.372. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2008.

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This entry incorporates text from “Damdoi” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.