| Haixi Prefecture | |
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| — Autonomous Prefecture — | |
| 海西蒙古族藏族自治州 ᠬᠠᠶᠢᠰᠢ ᠶᠢᠨ ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠲᠥᠪᠡᠳ ᠦᠨᠳᠦᠰᠦᠲᠡᠨ ᠦ ᠥᠪᠡᠷᠲᠡᠭᠡᠨ ᠵᠠᠰᠠᠬᠤ ᠵᠧᠦ |
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| Chinese transcription(s) | |
| • Chinese characters | 海西蒙古族藏族自治州 |
| • Hanyu pinyin | Hǎixī Měnggǔzú Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu |
| Tibetan transcription(s) | |
| • Tibetan script | མཚོ་ནུབ་སོག་རིགས་ཆ་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་ |
| • Wylie | Mtsho-nub Sog-rigs dang Bod-rigs rang-skyong-khul |
| • Tibetan pinyin | Conub Sogrig Poirig Ranggyong Kü |
| Location of the prefecture within Qinghai | |
| Coordinates: | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Qinghai |
| Prefecture Seat | Delingha |
| Area | |
| • Total | 325,785 km2 (125,786.3 sq mi) |
| Population (2010)[1] | |
| • Total | 489,338 |
| • Density | 1.5/km2 (3.9/sq mi) |
| • Major Ethnic Groups | Han-64.95% Tibetan-12.16% Hui-11.94% Mongols- 7.23% |
| Time zone | China Standard (UTC+8) |
| Postal code | 817000 |
| Area code(s) | 0977 |
| Website | http://www.haixi.gov.cn/ |
Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture is an autonomous prefecture in northern Qinghai province of Western China. It has an area of 325,785 square kilometres (125,786 sq mi) and its capital is Delingha. The name of the prefecture literally means "west of Qinghai Lake."
Geladandong Mountain, the source of the Yangtze River, is located here.
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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" (English the same, "蒙藏哈萨克族"->"蒙古族藏族哈萨克族"). In 1985, after the Kazakhs had returned to Xinjiang, it was again renamed Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.[2]
As of the 2010 census, Haixi had 489,338 inhabitants, giving it a population density of 1.5 inhabitants per km².
The following is a list of ethnic groups in the prefecture, taken in the 2000 Census
| Nationality | Population | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
| Han | 215,706 | 64.95% |
| Tibetan | 40,371 | 12.16% |
| Hui | 39,644 | 11.94% |
| Mongol | 24,020 | 7.23% |
| Tu | 5,792 | 1.74% |
| Salar | 3,569 | 1.07% |
| Dongxiang | 1,026 | 0.31% |
| Manchu | 544 | 0.16% |
| Tujia | 422 | 0.13% |
| Kazakh | 380 | 0.11% |
| Others | 620 | 0.2% |
Haixi directly governs 2 county-level cities and 3 counties.
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| # | Name | Hanzi | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | Population (2010) |
Area (km²) | Density (/km²) |
| 1 | Delingha City | 德令哈市 | Délìnghā Shì | 78,184 | 27,613 | 2.83 | ||
| 2 | Golmud City | 格尔木市 | Gé'ěrmù Shì | ན་གོར་མོ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར་ | na gor mo grong khyer |
215,213 | 123,460 | 1.74 |
| 3 | Wulan County | 乌兰县 | Wūlán Xiàn | ཝུའུ་ལན་རྫོང་ | wu'u lan rdzong | 38,723 | 10,784 | 3.59 |
| 4 | Dulan County | 都兰县 | Dūlán Xiàn | ཏུའུ་ལན་རྫོང་ | tu'u lan rdzong | 76,623 | 50,000 | 1.53 |
| 5 | Tianjun County | 天峻县 | Tiānjùn Xiàn | ཐེན་ཅུན་རྫོང་ | then cun rdzong | 33,923 | 20,000 | 1.70 |
| 6 | Lenghu Administrative Committee | 冷湖行政委员会 | Lěnghú Xíngzhèng Wěiyuánhuì |
2,434 | 21,000 | 0.12 | ||
| 7 | Da Qaidam Administrative committee | 大柴旦行政委员会 | Dàcháidàn Xíngzhèng Wěiyuánhuì |
13,671 | 34,000 | 0.40 | ||
| 8 | Magnya Administrative committee | 茫崖行政委员会 | Mángyá Xíngzhèng Wěiyuánhuì |
31,017 | 32,000 | 0.97 | ||
The southwestern exclave of the Haixi Prefecture, separated from the rest of the prefecture by a "panhandle" of the Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, is the Tanggulashan Town of Golmud City.
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