Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture

Coordinates: 37°23′N 97°22′E / 37.38°N 97.37°E / 37.38; 97.37
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Haixi Prefecture
海西州 · ᠬᠠᠶᠢᠰᠢ ‍ᠶᠢᠨ ᠵᠧᠦ · མཚོ་ནུབ་ཁུལ།
Postal code
817000
Area code0977
ISO 3166 codeCN-QH-28
Websitewww.haixi.gov.cn
Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
Chinese name
Mongolian Cyrillic
Хайши монгол ба Түвдийн өөртөө засах муж
(Qayisi-yin Mongɣol Töbed ündüsüten-ü öbertegen zasaqu jvu)
Mongolian scriptᠬᠠᠶᠢᠰᠢ ᠶᠢᠨ ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠲᠥᠪᠡᠳ ᠦᠨᠳᠦᠰᠦᠲᠡᠨ ᠦ ᠥᠪᠡᠷᠲᠡᠭᠡᠨ ᠵᠠᠰᠠᠬᠤ ᠵᠧᠦ

Haixi Mongolian and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (

seat is Delingha. The name of the prefecture literally means "west of (Qinghai) Lake
."

Yangtze River
, is located here.

History

After 1949, the People's Government of Dulan County was founded and the area was renamed Dulan Autonomous District (都兰自治区); in 1954, Dulan was renamed Haixi Mongol, Tibetan and Kazakh Autonomous District (海西蒙藏哈萨克族自治区) and in 1955, Haixi Mongol, Tibetan and Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture (海西蒙藏哈萨克族自治州). In 1963, it was renamed "海西蒙古族藏族哈萨克族自治州" (with the "Tibetan" added to the official county name). In 1985, after the Kazakhs had returned to Xinjiang, it was again renamed to Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.[3]

Demographics

As of the 2017 census, Haixi had 515,200 inhabitants.

The following is a composition of ethnic groups in the prefecture, taken in the 2010 Census.

Nationality Population Percentage
Han 322,996 66.01%
Tibetan 53,498 10.93%
Hui 65,828 13.45%
Mongolian
 27,043 5.53%
Tu/Monguor 9,952 2.03%
Salar 4,665 0.95%
Dongxiang 2,734 0.56%
Manchu 684 0.14%
Tujia 346 0.07%
Kazakh 525 0.11%
Others 1066 0.22%

Subdivisions

Haixi directly governs 3 county-level cities and 3 counties.

Map
Name Hanzi Hanyu Pinyin Mongolian
(Transcription from Mongolian)
Tibetan
 Wylie
Tibetan Pinyin 		Population
(2010) 		Area (km2) Density
(/km2)
Delingha City
(Delhi City) 		德令哈市 Délìnghā Shì ᠳᠡᠯᠡᠬᠡᠢ ᠬᠣᠲᠠ
Delekei qota 		གཏེར་ལེན་ཁ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར། gter len kha grong khyer
Dêrlênka Chongkyir 		91,855 61,613 1.49
Golmud City
(Ge'ermu City) 		格尔木市 Gé'ěrmù Shì ᠭᠣᠯᠮᠣᠣᠠ ᠬᠣᠲᠠ
Ɣool modu qota 		ན་གོར་མོ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར། na gor mo grong khyer
Nakormo Chongkyir 		215,213 123,460 1.74
Mangnai City
(Mangya City) 		茫崖市 Mángyá Shì ᠮᠠᠨᠭᠨᠠᠢ ᠶᠢᠨ ᠬᠣᠲᠠ
Mangnai-yin qota 		མང་ནེ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར། mang ne grong khyer
Mangnai Chongkyir 		33,451 49,000 0.63
Ulan County
(Wulan County) 		乌兰县 Wūlán Xiàn ᠤᠯᠠᠭᠠᠨ ᠰᠢᠶᠠᠨ
Ulaγan siyan 		ཝུའུ་ལན་རྫོང་ wu'u lan rdzong
Wu'ulain Zong 		38,723 10,784 3.59
Dulan County 都兰县 Dūlán Xiàn ᠳᠤᠯᠠᠭᠠᠨ ᠰᠢᠶᠠᠨ
Dulaγan siyan 		ཏུའུ་ལན་རྫོང་ tu'u lan rdzong
Tu'ulain Zong 		76,623 50,000 1.53
Tianjun County 天峻县 Tiānjùn Xiàn ᠲᠢᠶᠡᠨ ᠵᠢᠶᠦ᠋ᠨ ᠰᠢᠶᠠᠨ
Tiyen ǰiyün siyan 		ཐེན་ཅུན་རྫོང་ then cun rdzong
Têncün Zong 		33,923 20,000 1.70
Da Qaidam Administrative Zone
(Ih'qaidam Administrative Zone) 		大柴旦行政委员会 Dàcháidàn Xíngzhèng Wěiyuánhuì ᠶᠡᠬᠡ ᠴᠠᠢᠢᠳᠠᠮ ᠤᠨ ᠵᠠᠰᠠᠭ ᠵᠠᠬᠢᠷᠠᠭᠠᠨ ᠦ ᠵᠥᠪᠯᠡᠯ
Yeke čayidam-un ǰasaγ ǰaqiraγan-ü ǰöblel 		ཚྭ་འདམ་ཆེ་བའི་སྲིད་འཛིན་ཨུ་ཡོན་ལྷན་ཁང་། tshwa 'dam che ba'i srid 'dzin u yon lhan khang 13,671 34,000 0.40
  • The southwestern
    Tanggula Town
    of Golmud City.

Gallery

  • A picture taken in the southwestern part of the prefecture
    A picture taken in the southwestern part of the prefecture
  • The Qingzang Railway can be seen on the far left
    The
    Qingzang Railway
    can be seen on the far left

Notable features

Notes

  1. ^ According to 2010 China National Census
  2. ISBN 978-7-5037-7834-6. Archived from the original
    on 2017-12-28. Retrieved 2017-06-05.
  3. ^ 海西州. Qinghai Bureau of Civil Affairs (青海省民政厅网站). Archived from the original on 2007-09-28. Retrieved 2006-12-15..
    For details, see: 海西蒙古族藏族自治州. XZQH.org.

Further reading

External links
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