Golok

Golok landscape

Golok (Tib. མགོ་ལོག, Wyl. mgo log) is an area of East Tibet, near the upper reaches of the Yellow River (Ma Chu in Tibetan, Huang He in Chinese), in present-day Qinghai Province. Until the 1950s, Golok was divided into three main districts: Akyong Boom, Wangchen Boom and Padma Boom.