Циньхай провинциясының Голмуд қаласы

City in Qinghai Province, China

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.

Golmud is a romanization of a Mongolian word meaning "rivers". Ge'ermu is the pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of the same name's transcription into Chinese characters; it is sometimes misspelled Geermu. Ko erh mu was the same name romanized using the Wade–Giles system; Golmot was the romanization used by the Chinese Postal Map. The Wylie romanization of the Tibetan form of the name is Nagormo.

In 2017, the population of the total area of Golmud was approximately 240,494. A 2018 publication by the National Ethnic Affairs Commission reported that ethnic Han Chinese comprise 69.82% of the city's population, and minority ethnic groups comprise 30.18%. The city's is home to 33 ethnic minorities, of which, the largest are the Mongols, Tibetans, and Hui people. and Migriggyangzham Co [zh; ru] (, ).

Golmud has a cold arid climate (Köppen BWk), with long, cold winters, and warm summers. The monthly 24 hour average temperature drops to in January and rises to in July, while the annual mean is Precipitation is very low, totaling only per annum, falling on 28 days, most of which are during the summer. Relative humidity averages only 32%, with all months below 40%, some of the lowest levels nationally. With monthly percent possible sunshine ranging from 62% in July to 81% in November, the city receives 3,096 hours of bright sunshine annually.

The Qarhan Playa has China's largest reserves of salt, potassium, and magnesium, The area's salt has also trapped valuable hydrocarbons. The Sebei 1 and Sebei 2 fields near Suli Lake are also China's 4th largest onshore reserves of natural gas and the entire area may have reserves as high as 1 trillion m³ (35 trillion cu. ft.).

Golmud lies along the Qinghai–Tibet railway, a railway that starts from Xining and ends at Lhasa in the Tibet Autonomous Region. The Golmud Lhasa section, with a length of , was the last and most challenging part of the railway to be completed. After five years of construction, the first train for Lhasa left Golmud on 1 July 2006. In October 2012 construction started on the Golmud–Dunhuang Railway. It will actually branch off the Qinghai–Tibet Railway at the Yinmaxia station north of Golmud, and will cross the Qaidam Basin and the Altyn Tagh/Qilian system on the way to Dunhuang in the neighboring Gansu province. The Golmud Korla Railway running north west from Golmud into Korla, Xinjiang began construction in November 2014 and was completed in 2020.

The Golmud Railway is featured as an online multiplayer map in the video game Battlefield 4.