Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (Chinese: 海南藏族自治州; Tibetan: མཚོ་ལྷོ་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་) is an autonomous prefecture of northeastern Qinghai Province in Western China. The prefecture has an area of 45,895 square kilometres (17,720 sq mi) and its seat is located in Gonghe County. Its name literally means "south of Qinghai Lake."
[edit] Demographics
According to the 2000 census, the prefecture has 375,426 inhabitants with a population density of 8.18 inhabitants/km².
The following is a list of ethnic groups in the prefecture, as of the 2000 census.
[edit] Subdivisions
The prefecture is subdivided into 5 county-level divisions (5 counties):
| Map |
 |
| # |
Name |
Hanzi |
Hanyu Pinyin |
Tibetan |
Wylie |
Population
(2003 est.) |
Area (km²) |
Density
(/km²) |
| 1 |
Gonghe County |
共和县 |
Gònghé Xiàn |
ཀུང་ཧོ་རྫོང་ |
kung ho rdzong |
120,000 |
16,050 |
7 |
| 2 |
Tongde County |
同德县 |
Tóngdé Xiàn |
ཐུང་ཏེ་རྫོང་ |
thung te rdzong |
50,000 |
6,494 |
8 |
| 3 |
Guide County |
贵德县 |
Guìdé Xiàn |
ཀུའེ་ཏེ་རྫོང་ |
ku'e te rdzong |
100,000 |
3,600 |
28 |
| 4 |
Xinghai County |
兴海县 |
Xīnghǎi Xiàn |
ཤིན་ཧའེ་རྫོང་ |
shin ha'e rdzong |
60,000 |
13,158 |
5 |
| 5 |
Guinan County |
贵南县 |
Guìnán Xiàn |
ཀུའེ་ནན་རྫོང་ |
ku'e nan rdzong |
70,000 |
6,593 |
11 |
[edit] 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. ISBN 974-480-049-6
- Tsering Shakya: The Dragon in the Land of Snows. A History of Modern Tibet Since 1947, London 1999, ISBN 0-14-019615-3
[edit] External links
Coordinates: 36°17′N 100°37′E / 36.29°N 100.62°E / 36.29; 100.62
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