Golmud
Golmud, also known by various other romanizations, is a county-level city in the Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Qinghai Province, China. It is now the second-largest city in Qinghai and the third largest in the Tibetan Plateau (after Xining and Lhasa). The population in 2020 is 221,863.
Golmud
格尔木市 · ᠭᠣᠯᠮᠣᠣᠠ ᠬᠣᠲᠠ · ན་གོར་མོ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར། Golmo | |
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Location of Golmud City (red) in Haixi Prefecture (yellow) and Qinghai | |
Golmud Location of the city centre in Qinghai | |
| Coordinates (Golmud government): 36°24′26″N 94°55′42″E | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Qinghai |
| Autonomous prefecture | Haixi |
| Municipal seat | Kunlun Road Subdistrict |
| Area | |
| • County-level & Sub-prefectural city | 119,165 km2 (46,010 sq mi) |
| • Urban | 72 km2 (28 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 2,809 m (9,216 ft) |
| Population (2020) | |
| • County-level & Sub-prefectural city | 221,863 |
| • Density | 1.9/km2 (4.8/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 197,153 |
| • Urban density | 2,700/km2 (7,100/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Website | www |
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| Simplified Chinese | 格尔木 | ||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 格爾木 | ||||||||
| Postal | Golmot | ||||||||
| Literal meaning | Rivers (in Mongolian) | ||||||||
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| Tibetan | ན་གོར་མོ། | ||||||||
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| Mongolian script | ᠭᠣᠯᠮᠤᠳ | ||||||||
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