Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture Explained

Huangnan Prefecture
Official Name:	Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
Other Name:	Malho
Native Name:	Chinese: 黄南州 · {{bo-textonly|རྨ་ལྷོ་ཁུལ།
Settlement Type:	Autonomous prefecture
Coordinates:	35.5193°N 102.0154°W
Subdivision Type:	Country
Subdivision Name:	People's Republic of China
Subdivision Type1:	Province
Subdivision Name1:	Qinghai
Seat Type:	Prefecture seat
Seat:	Tongren County
Area Total Km2:	18226
Population As Of:	2020
Population Footnotes:	^[1]
Population Total:	276215
Population Density Km2:	auto
Population Density Urban Km2:	auto
Demographics Type2:	GDP^[2]
Demographics2 Title1:	Total
Demographics2 Info1:	CN¥ 7.3 billion US$ 1.2 billion
Demographics2 Title2:	Per capita
Demographics2 Info2:	CN¥ 27,181 US$ 4,364
Timezone:	China Standard
Utc Offset:	+8
Postal Code Type:	Postal code
Iso Code:	CN-QH-23

Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (;) is an autonomous prefecture of Eastern Qinghai, China, bordering Gansu to the east. The prefecture has an area of 17921km2 and its seat is in Tongren County.

Demographics

According to the 2000 census, Huangnan has 214,642 inhabitants with a population density of 11.98 inhabitants/km² (31.03 inhabitants/sq. mi.).^[3]

Ethnic groups in Huangnan, 2000 census

Nationality	Population	Percentage
Tibetan	142,360	66.32%
Mongol	29,071	13.54%
Hui	16,411	7.65%
Han	16,194	7.54%
Tu/Monguor	8,445	3.93%
Salar	1,530	0.71%
Others	631	0.31%

Subdivisions

The prefecture is subdivided into 4 county-level divisions: 1 county-level city, 2 counties and 1 autonomous county:

Map
Name	Simplified Chinese	Hanyu Pinyin	Tibetan	Wylie Tibetan Pinyin	Population	Area (km^2)	Density (/km^2)
Tongren city	Chinese: 同仁市		Tibetan: ཐུང་རིན་གྲོང་ཁྱེར། (Tibetan: རེབ་གོང་གྲོང་ཁྱེར། or Tibetan: རེ་སྐོང་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།)		92,601	3,465	26.72
Jainca County (Jianzha County)	Chinese: 尖扎县		Tibetan: གཅན་ཚ་རྫོང་།		55,325	1,712	32.31
Zêkog County (Zeku County)	Chinese: 泽库县		Tibetan: རྩེ་ཁོག་རྫོང་།		69,416	6,494	10.68
Henan Mongol Autonomous County	Chinese: 河南蒙古族<br />自治县		Tibetan: རྨ་ལྷོ་སོག་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་རྫོང་།		39,374	6,250	6.29

Rongwo Monastery

Huangnan is home to Rongwo Monastery, a Gelug monastery initially established in 1341 in Amdo on the Rongwo River.^{[4] [5]}

Further reading

• A. Gruschke: The Cultural Monuments of Tibet’s Outer Provinces: Amdo - Volume 1. The Qinghai Part of Amdo, White Lotus Press, Bangkok 2001.
• Tsering Shakya: The Dragon in the Land of Snows. A History of Modern Tibet Since 1947, London 1999,

Notes and References

1. Web site: 青海省统计局　青海省第七次全国人口普查领导小组办公室 . 青海省第七次全国人口普查公报（第二号） . 青海省统计局 . 2023-01-01 . 2022-10-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221006171418/http://tjj.qinghai.gov.cn/tjData/surveyBulletin/202107/t20210701_73826.html . live .
2. Book: 青海省统计局、国家统计局青海调查总队 . 《青海统计年鉴－2016》 . August 2016 . 中国统计出版社 . 978-7-5037-7834-6 . 2017-06-05 . 2017-12-28 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171228012718/http://www.qhtjj.gov.cn/nj/2016/indexch.htm .
3. Web site: Renming . Zhengfu . 2023-04-24 . 2022年黄南州国民经济和社会发展统计公报 . en:Huangnan Prefecture National Economic and Social Development Statistics Bulletin 2022 . 2024-03-22 . en:Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture People's Government . zh . "人口和人民生活:年末全州人口为281044人。全州出生人口4523人。".
4. Web site: Rongwu Monastery and town . baronet4tibet.com . 2015-05-09 . 2009-01-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090106143352/http://www.baronet4tibet.com/sange_shong_info/rongwu.html . dead .
5. Web site: Staff . Longwu Temple - garden of Tibetan Buddhism and Western Region . China Tour Guide . 6 February 2008 . 2010-02-04 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100214065348/http://tour.iflove.com/longwu-temple-garden-of-tibetan-buddhism-and-western-region/ . 14 February 2010 . dead .