Amdo Town

Amdo, also Anduo, and Draknak, is a town and seat of Amdo County in the Nagqu Prefecture of the northern Tibet Autonomous Region of China. It lies 464 kilometres north of Lhasa and 138 km north of Nagqu.

At an elevation of 4,710 metres (15,450 ft), Amdo is one of the highest year-round settlements in the world. It is now closed to tourists on the 1,130 km journey between Golmud and Lhasa. It is south of the Tanggula Shankou Pass (5,206 metres (17,080 ft)) on the border of Qinghai and Tibet, the highest pass between Lhasa and Golmud.

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