Madoi County
Madoi County
རྨ་སྟོད་རྫོང · 玛多县 Matö, Maduo | |
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Madoi County (light red) within Golog Prefecture (yellow) and Qinghai | |
| Coordinates: 34°42′N 98°13′E / 34.700°N 98.217°E | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Qinghai |
| Autonomous prefecture | Golog |
| County seat | Machali |
| Area | |
• Total | 25,253 km2 (9,750 sq mi) |
| Population (2020) | |
• Total | 14,490 |
| • Density | 0.57/km2 (1.5/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Website | www |
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| Simplified Chinese | 玛多县 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 瑪多縣 | ||||||
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| Tibetan | རྨ་སྟོད་རྫོང | ||||||
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Madoi County (Tibetan: རྨ་སྟོད་རྫོང; Chinese: 玛多县; also Matö County or Maduo County) is a county of Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, in southeast-central Qinghai province, bordering Sichuan to the south. Its area is about 25,000 km2 (9,700 sq mi), and with an average elevation of 4,300 m (14,000 ft) it is the highest Chinese county by average elevation. In Madoi County is the upper stream of the Yellow River which flows to Ngoring and Gyaring lake.