Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
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| Hainan Prefecture 海南州 |
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| 海南藏族自治州 · མཚོ་ལྷོ་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ | |
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| • Chinese character | 海南藏族自治州 |
| • Hanyu Pinyin | Hǎinán Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu |
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| • Tibetan script | མཚོ་ལྷོ་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ |
| • Wylie | mtsho-lho bod-rigs rang-skyong-khul |
| • Tibetan pinyin | Colho Poirig Ranggyong Kü |
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| Country | China |
| Province | Qinghai |
| Prefecture seat | Gonghe County |
| Time zone | China Standard (UTC+8) |
| Website | http://www.qhhn.gov.cn/ |
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."
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Demographics [edit]
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.
| Ethnicity | Population | Percentage |
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| Tibetan | 235,663 | 62.77% |
| Han | 105,337 | 28.06% |
| Hui | 26,152 | 6.97% |
| Tu | 3,750 | 1% |
| Mongol | 2.637 | 0.7% |
| Salar | 1,231 | 0.33% |
| Others | 656 | 0.17% |
Subdivisions [edit]
The prefecture is subdivided into 5 county-level divisions (5 counties):
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| # | Name | Hanzi | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | Population (2003 est.) |
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| 1 | Gonghe County | 共和县 | Gònghé Xiàn | གསེར་ཆེན་རྫོང་ | gser chen rdzong | 120,000 | 16,050 | 7 |
| 2 | Tongde County | 同德县 | Tóngdé Xiàn | འབའ་རྫོང་ | 'ba' rdzong | 50,000 | 6,494 | 8 |
| 3 | Guide County | 贵德县 | Guìdé Xiàn | ཁྲི་ཀ་རྫོང་ | thri ka rdzong | 100,000 | 3,600 | 28 |
| 4 | Xinghai County | 兴海县 | Xīnghǎi Xiàn | བྲག་དཀར་རྫོང་ | brag dkar rdzong | 60,000 | 13,158 | 5 |
| 5 | Guinan County | 贵南县 | Guìnán Xiàn | མང་རྫོང་ | mang rdzong | 70,000 | 6,593 | 11 |
Further reading [edit]
- 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
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Coordinates: 36°17′N 100°37′E / 36.29°N 100.62°E
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