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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 | |
Coordinates (Golmud government): 36°24′26″N 94°55′42″E / 36.4072°N 94.9283°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)[1] | |
• 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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Chinese name | |||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 格尔木 | ||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 格爾木 | ||||||||
Postal | Golmot | ||||||||
Literal meaning | Rivers (in Mongolian) | ||||||||
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Tibetan name | |||||||||
Tibetan | ན་གོར་མོ། | ||||||||
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Mongolian name | |||||||||
Mongolian script | ᠭᠣᠯᠮᠤᠳ |
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.[2][3]