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Tanggulashan

Tanggulashan
Tibetan nameTibetanགདང་ལ་གྲོང།Tibetan nameTibetanགདང་ལ་གྲོང།

Tanggulashan (simplified Chinese: 唐古拉山镇; traditional Chinese: 唐古拉山鎮; pinyin: Tánggǔlāshān Zhèn; lit. 'Tanggula Mountains town', Standard Tibetan: གདང་ལ་གྲོང་རྡལ།), or Dangla Town, is a town in the southwest of Qinghai province, China. It forms the southern exclave of the county-level city of Golmud, in Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, partially administrated by Amdo County, Tibet Autonomous Region since 1963 and still officially a territory of Yushu Prefecture, Qinghai under trust administration of Golmud, Haixi Prefecture, Qinghai. Before the local administrative reform of 2005, it was a township (唐古拉山乡). It is the only place in China simultaneously under jurisdiction of three prefectures.

The town spans an area of approximately 48,000 square kilometres (19,000 mi), and has a population of 1,957 as of 2025.