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.
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]
Nationality | Population | Percentage | |
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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% |
The prefecture is subdivided into 4 county-level divisions: 1 county-level city, 2 counties and 1 autonomous county:
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Name | Simplified Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie Tibetan Pinyin | Population | Area (km2) | Density (/km2) | |
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 |
Huangnan is home to Rongwo Monastery, a Gelug monastery initially established in 1341 in Amdo on the Rongwo River.[4] [5]