Qamdo (Tibetan:ཆབ་མདོ་རྫོང་(Chab-mdo), Mandarin Chinese:昌都(Chāngdū)) is a county in Tibet. Qamdo county has an area of 10,700 km² and a population of 78,000, of which 90% are Tibetans. 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. The Tibetan language is typically classified as member of the Tibeto-Burman which in turn is thought by some to be a branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family. ... This article is on all of the Northern Chinese dialects. ... Tibet (Tibetan: à½à½¼à½à¼, Bod, pronounced pö in Lhasa dialect; Chinese: 西è, pinyin: XÄ«zà ng; older spelling Thibet) is a region in Central Asia and the home of the Tibetan people. ...
Chamdo is located in eastern Tibet, tucked away in the Henduan Mountains and dissected by the Jinshajiang, Lancanjiang and Nujiang rivers, covers an area of 108,600 square km.
Chamdo is an insulated place, for hundreds of years people went west out of Tibet, went east into the west of Sichuan regarding the road across the mountains as a formidable one.
Chamdo is a place with a lot of mountains, the people of Chamdo instinctively worship the nature, wish to live a life of Utopia, however it was only a dream in the past.