Karuo District (other spellings: Karub District, Kharro District (after THL transliteration of Tibetan)) is a district in

Qamdo Chamdo, officially Qamdo () and also known in Chinese as Changdu, is a prefecture-level city in the eastern part of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China. Its seat is the town of Chengguan, Chamdo, Chengguan in Karuo District. Chamdo is Tibet's t ...

, the district is synonymous referred to as Chamdo, Qamdo, or Chengguan in the

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, and the seat of government of

. Karuo has an area of 10,700 km² and a population of 78,000, of which 90% are

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. 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

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in the capital and the salt mines and hot springs at Yangjing.

Administrative divisions

Karuo administers 3

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and 12

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Administrative divisions

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