Golmud

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Golmud 格尔木市 · ᠭᠣᠯᠮᠣᠣᠠ ᠬᠣᠲᠠ · ན་གོར་མོ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར། Golmo
County-level & Sub-prefectural city
Golmud railway station
Location of Golmud City (red) in Haixi Prefecture (yellow) and Qinghai
Golmud Location of the city centre in Qinghai
Coordinates (Golmud government): 36°24′26″N 94°55′42″E / 36.4072°N 94.9283°E / 36.4072; 94.9283
Country	China
Province	Qinghai
Autonomous prefecture	Haixi
Municipal seat	Kunlun Road Subdistrict
Area
• County-level & Sub-prefectural city	119,165 km2 (46,010 sq mi)
• Urban	72 km2 (28 sq mi)
Elevation	2,809 m (9,216 ft)
Population  (2020)[1]
• County-level & Sub-prefectural city	221,863
• Density	1.9/km2 (4.8/sq mi)
• Urban	197,153
• Urban density	2,700/km2 (7,100/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Website	www.geermu.gov.cn

Golmud, also known by various other romanizations, 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 in the Tibetan Plateau (after Xining and Lhasa). The population in 2020 is 221,863.^[2][3]