Pana, or Pagnag (), also known as Anduo, or Amdo, is a town and the seat of
Amdo County in the
Nagqu Prefecture of the
Tibet Autonomous Region, in
China
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. It lies 464 kilometres north of
Lhasa and 138 km north of
Nagqu
Nagqu (also Naqu, Nakchu, or Nagchu; ; ) is a prefecture-level city in the north of the Chinese autonomous region of Tibet. On May 7, 2018, the former Nagqu Prefecture was officially declared the sixth prefecture-level city in Tibet after Lhasa, ...
. As of 2004 its jurisdiction had a population of about 2700, 683 of which were living in the town of Pana.
The principal economic activity is animal husbandry, pastoral yak, goat, sheep, and so on.
Blueschist outcrops are found in the area. The villagers in recent times organized a railway protecting committee to select locals to monitor the
Qinghai-Tibet Railway.
"Constructed on the southern side of the Dangla Mountains
The Tanggula (Chinese: , p ''Tánggǔlāshān'', or , p ''Tánggǔlāshānmài''), Tangla, Tanglha, or Dangla Mountains (Tibetan: , w ''Gdang La'', z ''Dang La'') are a mountain range in the central part of the Q ...
, Amdo is a Chinese-style town on the Qinghai-Tibet Highway. The road here leads off to the west, heading towards the Mt. Kailash area via the Changthang Plateau
The Changtang (alternatively spelled Changthang or Qangtang) is a part of the high altitude Tibetan Plateau in western and northern Tibet extending into the southern edges of Xinjiang as well as southeastern Ladakh, India, with vast highlands and g ...
. Many of the buses from Golmud to Lhasa used to stay overnight here."
At an elevation of , 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
The Tanggula (Chinese: , p ''Tánggǔlāshān'', or , p ''Tánggǔlāshānmài''), Tangla, Tanglha, or Dangla Mountains ( Tibetan: , w ''Gdang La'', z ''Dang La'') are a mountain range in the central part of the ...
Shankou Pass () on the border of Qinghai and Tibet, the highest pass between Lhasa and Golmud.
[Osada, Allwright and Kanamaru (2000), p. 195.]
Administrative divisions
The township-level division contains 42 villages and four village committees which are as follows:
*Pana Neighborhood (帕纳居委会)
*Zhaliejin Village (扎烈金村)
*Turuo Village (土若村)
*Jiage Kagang Village (甲格卡岗村)
See also
*
List of towns and villages in Tibet
References
Township-level divisions of Tibet
Populated places in Nagqu
Amdo County
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