Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
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Haibei Prefecture
海北州 · མཚོ་བྱང་ཁུལ། | |
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| Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 海北藏族自治州 · མཚོ་བྱང་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ | |
 Qilian Mountains | |
 Location of Haibei Prefecture in Qinghai | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Province | Qinghai |
| Prefecture seat | Haiyan County () |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| ISO 3166 code | CN-QH-22 |
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| Chinese | 海北藏族自治州 | ||||||
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| Tibetan | མཚོ་བྱང་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ | ||||||
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Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (Chinese: 海北藏族自治州; Tibetan: མཚོ་བྱང་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་, Wylie: mtsho-byang bod-rigs rang-skyong-khul, Tib.pin.: cojang poirig ranggyong kü) is an autonomous prefecture of Northeastern Qinghai Province, China. The prefecture has an area of 39,354 square kilometres (15,195 sq mi) and its seat is Haiyan County. Its name literally means "north of (Qinghai) Lake."
Demographics[]
According to the 2000 census, Haibei has 258,922 inhabitants with a population density of 6.58 inhabitants/km2.
The following is a list of ethnic groups in the prefecture, 2000 census.
| Ethnicity | Population | Percentage |
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| Han | 94,841 | 36.63% |
| Hui | 79,190 | 30.58% |
| Tibetan | 62,520 | 24.15% |
| Mongol | 13,087 | 5.05% |
| Tu/Monguor | 7,806 | 3.01% |
| Salar | 901 | 0.35% |
| Others | 577 | 0.23% |
Subdivisions[]
The prefecture is subdivided into 4 county-level divisions: 3 counties and 1 autonomous county:
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| Name | Hanzi | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie Tibetan Pinyin |
Population (2010 Census) |
Area (km2) | Density (/km2) | |
| Haiyan County | 海晏县 | Hǎiyàn Xiàn | ཧའེ་ཡན་རྫོང་ | ha'e yan rdzong Ha'êyan Zong |
37,788 | 4,348 | 8.69 | |
| Qilian County | 祁连县 | Qílián Xiàn | ཆི་ལེན་རྫོང་ | chi len rdzong Qilên Zong |
46,473 | 15,610 | 2.97 | |
| Gangca County (Gangcha County) |
刚察县 | Gāngchá Xiàn | རྐང་ཚ་རྫོང་ | rkang tsha rdzong Gangca Zong |
41,333 | 12,500 | 3.30 | |
| Menyuan Hui Autonomous County | 门源回族自治县 | Ményuán Huízú Zìzhìxiàn |
མོང་ཡོན་ཧུའེ་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་རྫོང་ | mong yon hu'e rigs rang skyong rdzong Mongyoin Hu'êrig Ranggyong Zong |
147,710 | 6,896 | 21.41 | |
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Categories:
- Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
- Tibetan autonomous prefectures
- Tibetan people
- Amdo
- Prefecture-level divisions of Qinghai