Golmud

Also known as Ge'ermu, Geermu, Ke-erh-mu, Kermo, Golmot, Golmud Shi, ge'ermu shi

Golmud 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 on the Tibetan Plateau (after Xining and Lhasa). The population in 2020 was 221,863.

Key facts

Settlement.name: Golmud
Settlement.native_name: · ·
Settlement.other_name: Golmo
Settlement.settlement_type: County-level & Sub-prefectural city
Settlement.image_skyline: Golmud-Station_July-2005.jpg
Settlement.imagesize: 220px
Settlement.image_caption: Golmud railway station
Settlement.image_map: Location of Golmud within Qinghai (China).png
Settlement.mapsize: 220px
Settlement.map_caption: Location of Golmud City (red) in Haixi Prefecture (yellow) and Qinghai
Settlement.pushpin_map: Qinghai
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption: Location of the city centre in Qinghai
Settlement.pushpin_mapsize: 250
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_name: China
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Province
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Qinghai
Settlement.subdivision_type2: Autonomous prefecture

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Encyclopedic overview

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Contents

Name
History
Administrative divisions
Demographics
Geography
Climate
Economy
Transportation
Railway
Highways
Airport
Twin towns – sister cities
In popular culture
Notes
References
Citations
Bibliography
External links

==Name== Golmud is a romanization of Oirat Голмуд, meaning "rivers". ''Ge'ermu'' is the pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of the same name's transcription into Chinese characters; it is sometimes spelled Geermu. Ko-erh-mu was the same name romanized using the Wade–Giles system; Golmot was the romanization used by the Chinese Postal Map. The Wylie romanization of the Tibetan form of the name is Nagormo.

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