Golmud

From Mongolian ᠭᠣᠯᠮᠤᠳ (ɣolmud).

Golmud

1. A river and sub-prefectural county-level city in Haixi prefecture, Qinghai, China.
   • 1988 January, Theroux, Paul, “China Passage”, in National Geographic‎, volume 173, number 1, ISSN 0027-9358, OCLC 643483454, page 298:

     The only place the railway didn't go was Tibet. The Chinese had abandoned this Tibet line at Golmud in Qinghai, faced by the impenetrable Kunlun Mountains.

   • 1998, Rosie Thomas, Border Crossing‎, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, OCLC 40855473, page 111:

     We had left the frosty campsite at Koko Nor after a hearty Sherpa breakfast of hot porridge and fried eggs, the car heater was pumping out warmth, we had slept well, and we were a few minutes into our drive to Golmud, 580 kilometres further towards Tibet.

   • 2006 August, Michael Buckley, Tibet (Bradt Travel Guides)‎, 2nd edition, Globe Pequot Press, →ISBN, OCLC 875922540, OL 8921008M, page 17:

     'Social development' could obliquely mean a new Chinese invasion - a massive influx of Chinese settlers, drawn by financial incentives and tax breaks. There are precedents here: you do not have to look any further than Golmud itself. Fifty years ago, Golmud was open steppe with nomad herders. After the railway reached town, immigrants from eastern China arrived in droves, leading to the present population of several hundred thousand and a sprawling town.

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• (from Mandarin Chinese) Ge'ermu, Ko-erh-mu