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For the city, see Chamdo"). If you click on that, you go to a page about a place called Chamdo that is emphatically not a city, it has an area of over 100,000km2 which is is fifty times the size of any of the largest cities on earth. That's not a city. It's a province. Translating whatever the underlying
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This page is for the town (or third-largest city, the words town and city apparently being used interchangeably, that's fine) named Chamdo that had a population of 45k in 2010. That's fine. However, the note at the top of the page pretends there is an associated city ("This article is about the town.
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Tibetan name, so the issue here is not even the "official name"
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Chinese have strange terminology such as "prefecture-level cities", which are supposed to be called "cities" rather than "prefectures". (Similarly there are "county-level of towns", which have similar problems.) So, we are supposed to call it the "Chamdo city", not the
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Nobody expects to find the same place with the same name (whether Lhasa, Chamdo, Shigatse or
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Chengguan, supposedly the name of this "town", is NOT a specific geographical name. It is simply a Chinese word meaning "urban gateway" that can be applied to the urban center of any town, as stated on the wikipedia page for Lhasa. Pretending that Chengguan is the name of Chamdo town is like
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equivalents of Tibetan names or, in other cases, using a totally different Chinese name for places that have been known by Tibetan names for centuries. These are now regarded as the "official" names because China controls Tibet. Another problem is, of course, that there are various ways of
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