Karub, Qamdo
district in Qamdo, Tibet, China
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.
Popular with tourists are the Galden Jampaling Monastery in the capital and the salt mines and hot springs at Yangjing.
Administrative divisions
Karub administers 3 towns and 12 townships.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Karub, Qamdo” as district in Qamdo, Tibet, China. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
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The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as district in Qamdo, Tibet, China. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q778120. Authority coordinates are 31.141, 97.182. 1 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.
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