Domar (Shuanghu)
township in Shuanghu County, Nagqu, Tibet, China
Domar (Tibetan: རྡོ་དམར་, Wylie: rdo dmar, THL: do mar), Duoma or Duomaxiang (Chinese: 多玛乡; pinyin: Duō mǎ xiāng) is a village and township-level division of Shuanghu County in the Nagqu Prefecture of the Tibet Autonomous Region, in China. It is located roughly 140 kilometres (87 mi) west of Amdo Town and roughly 50 kilometres (31 mi) north of Siling Co, near the western bank of a lake at the foot of the Tanggula Mountains. As of 2004 it had a population of 1,488 people.
The principal economic activity is animal husbandry, with pastoral yak, goat and sheep. The township is very rich in fish and mineral resources, and as many as 30 kinds of mineral which are found there, including coal, iron, chromium, iron, copper, zinc, antimony, molybdenum, gold dust, rock gold, borax, platinum, silver, rock crystal, jade, mica, salt, oil, etc.
“Domar (Shuanghu)” enters the record as township in Shuanghu County, Nagqu, Tibet, China. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Domar, Shuanghu and township can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3965750. Authority coordinates are 32.383, 89.144. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2004.
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