Resolving place names in Amdo and Kham: A gazetteer for the Hengduan Mountains region of Southwest China
Resolving place names in Amdo and Kham： A gazetteer for the Hengduan Mountains region of Southwest China

Perhaps no region on earth presents such a confusing array of place names as does the area made up of the former Tibetan provinces of Kham and Amdo. These two places themselves have been subsumed into parts of the present day Chinese provinces of Gansu, Qinghai, Yunnan and Sichuan, and part of Kham was briefly included in the former short-lived Chinese province of Sikang in the mid 20th century. Within what was Amdo and Kham, cities, towns, villages, mountains, lakes and other geographic …