List of administrative divisions of Qinghai

This article is part of the series: Administrative divisions of the People's Republic of China

Provincial level Provinces (省; shěng) Autonomous regions (自治区; zìzhìqū) Municipalities (直辖市; zhíxiáshì) Special administrative regions (特别行政区; tèbié xíngzhèngqū)

Sub-provincial level Sub-provincial autonomous prefectures (副省级自治州; fùshěngjí zìzhìzhōu) Sub-provincial cities (副省级城市; fùshěngjí chéngshì) Sub-provincial new areas (副省级市辖新区; fùshěngjí shìxiá xīnqū)

Prefectural level Prefectures (地区; dìqū) Autonomous prefectures (自治州; zīzhìzhōu) Prefecture-level cities (地级市; dìjíshì) Leagues (盟; méng)

Sub-prefecture-level Sub-prefectural-level cities (副地级市; fùdìjíshì)

County level Counties (县; xiàn) Autonomous counties (自治县; zìzhìxiàn) County-level cities (县级市; xiànjíshì) City districts (市辖区; shìxiáqū) Ethnic districts Banners (旗; qí) Autonomous banners (自治旗; zìzhìqí) Forestry areas (林区; línqū) Special districts (特区; tèqū)

Township level Townships (乡; xiāng) Ethnic townships (民族乡; mínzúxiāng) Towns (镇; zhèn) Subdistricts (街道办事处; jiēdào bànshìchù) Sumus (苏木; sūmù) Ethnic sumus (民族苏木; mínzúsūmù) District public offices (abolishing) (区公所; qū gōngsuǒ)

Village level Village Committees (村民委员会; cūnmín-wěiyuánhùi) Neighborhood Committees (居民委员会; jūmín-wěiyuánhùi)

History of the political divisions of China

Qinghai, a province of the People's Republic of China, is made up of the following administrative divisions:

• 8 prefecture-level divisions
  • 1 prefecture-level city
  • 1 prefecture
  • 6 autonomous prefectures
• 43 county-level divisions
  • 2 county-level cities
  • 30 counties
  • 7 autonomous counties
  • 4 districts
• 429 township-level divisions
  • 115 towns
  • 253 townships
  • 30 ethnic townships
  • 31 subdistricts

All of these administrative divisions are explained in greater detail at Administrative divisions of the People's Republic of China. This chart lists all prefecture-level and county-level divisions of Qinghai.

Prefecture level	County Level
	Name	Chinese (S)	Hanyu Pinyin
Xining City 西宁市 Xīníng Shì	Chengzhong District	城中区	Chéngzhōng Qū
	Chengdong District	城东区	Chéngdōng Qū
	Chengxi District	城西区	Chéngxī Qū
	Chengbei District	城北区	Chéngběi Qū
	Datong Hui and Tu Autonomous County	大通回族 土族自治县	Dàtōng Huízú Tǔzú Zìzhìxiàn
	Huangyuan County	湟源县	Huángyuán Xiàn
	Huangzhong County	湟中县	Huángzhōng Xiàn
Haidong Prefecture 海东地区 Hǎidōng Dìqū	Ping'an County	平安县	Píng'ān Xiàn
	Ledu County	乐都县	Lèdū Xiàn
	Minhe Hui and Tu Autonomous County	民和回族 土族自治县	Mínhé Huízú Tǔzú Zìzhìxiàn
	Huzhu Tu Autonomous County	互助土族自治县	Hùzhù Tǔzú Zìzhìxiàn
	Hualong Hui Autonomous County	化隆回族自治县	Huàlóng Huízú Zìzhìxiàn
	Xunhua Salar Autonomous County	循化撒拉族自治县	Xúnhuà Sǎlāzú Zìzhìxiàn
				Tibetan	Wylie transliteration
Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 海北藏族自治州 Hǎiběi Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu མཚོ་བྱང་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་ mtsho byang bod rigs rang skyong khul	Haiyan County	海晏县	Hǎiyàn Xiàn	ཧའེ་ཡན་རྫོང་	ha'e yan rdzong
	Qilian County	祁连县	Qílián Xiàn	ཆི་ལེན་རྫོང་	chi len rdzong
	Gangca County	刚察县	Gāngchá Xiàn	རྐང་ཚ་རྫོང་	rkang tsha rdzong
	Menyuan Hui Autonomous County	门源回族自治县	Ményuán Huízú Zìzhìxiàn	མོང་ཡོན་ཧུའེ་རིགས་ རང་སྐྱོང་རྫོང་	mong yon hu'e rigs rang skyong rdzong
Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 海南藏族自治州 Hǎinán Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu མཚོ་ལྷོ་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་ mtsho lho bod rigs rang skyong khul	Gonghe County	共和县	Gònghé Xiàn	ཀུང་ཧོ་རྫོང་	kung ho rdzong
	Tongde County	同德县	Tóngdé Xiàn	ཐུང་ཏེ་རྫོང་	thung te rdzong
	Guide County	贵德县	Guìdé Xiàn	ཀུའེ་ཏེ་རྫོང་	ku'e te rdzong
	Xinghai County	兴海县	Xīnghǎi Xiàn	ཤིན་ཧའེ་རྫོང་	shin ha'e rdzong
	Guinan County	贵南县	Guìnán Xiàn	ཀུའེ་ནན་རྫོང་	ku'e nan rdzong
Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 黄南藏族自治州 Huángnán Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu རྨ་ལྷོ་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་ rma lho bod rigs rang skyong khul	Tongren County	同仁县	Tóngrén Xiàn	ཐུང་རེན་རྫོང་	thung ren rdzong
	Jainca County	尖扎县	Jiānzhā Xiàn	གཅན་ཚ་རྫོང་	gcan tsha rdzong
	Zêkog County	泽库县	Zékù Xiàn	རྩེ་ཁོག་རྫོང་	rtse khog rdzong
	Henan Mongol Autonomous County	河南蒙古族自治县	Hénán Měnggǔzú Zìzhìxiàn	རྨ་ལྷོ་སོག་རིགས་ རང་སྐྱོང་རྫོང་	rma lho sog rigs rang skyong rdzong
Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 果洛藏族自治州 Guǒluò Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu མགོ་ལོག་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་ mgo log bod rigs rang skyong khul	Maqên County	玛沁县	Mǎqìn Xiàn	རྨ་ཆེན་རྫོང་	rma chen rdzong
	Baima County	班玛县	Bānmǎ Xiàn	པད་མ་རྫོང་	pad ma rdzong
	Gadê County	甘德县	Gāndé Xiàn	དགའ་བདེ་རྫོང་	dga' bde rdzong
	Darlag County	达日县	Dárì Xiàn	དར་ལག་རྫོང་	dar lag rdzong
	Jigzhi County	久治县	Jiǔzhì Xiàn	གཅིག་སྒྲིལ་རྫོང་	gcig sgril rdzong
	Madoi County	玛多县	Mǎduō Xiàn	རྨ་སྟོད་རྫོང་	rma stod rdzong
Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 玉树藏族自治州 Yùshù Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu ཡུས་ཧྲུའུ་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་ yus hru'u bod rigs rang skyong khul	Yushu County	玉树县	Yùshù Xiàn	ཡུས་ཧྲུའུ་རྫོང་	yus hru'u rdzong
	Zadoi County	杂多县	Záduō Xiàn	རྫ་སྟོད་རྫོང་	rdza stod rdzong
	Chindu County	称多县	Chēngduō Xiàn	ཁྲི་འདུ་རྫོང་	khri 'du rdzong
	Zhidoi County	治多县	Zhìduō Xiàn	འབྲི་སྟོད་རྫོང་	'bri stod rdzong
	Nangqên County	囊谦县	Nángqiān Xiàn	ནང་ཆེན་རྫོང་	nang chen rdzong
	Qumarleb County	曲麻莱县	Qūmálái Xiàn	ཆུ་དམར་ལེབ་རྫོང་	chu dmar leb rdzong
				Mongolian	Tibetan	Wylie transliteration
Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 海西蒙古族藏族自治州 Hǎixī Měnggǔzú Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu མཚོ་ནུབ་སོག་རིགས་དང་ བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་ mtsho nub sog rigs dang bod rigs rang skyong khul	Delingha City	德令哈市	Délìnghā Shì		གཏེར་ལེན་ཁ་
	Golmud City	格尔木市	Gé'ěrmù Shì	γool modu Голмод	ན་གོར་མོ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར་	na gor mo grong khyer
	Wulan County	乌兰县	Wūlán Xiàn		ཝུའུ་ལན་རྫོང་	wu'u lan rdzong
	Dulan County	都兰县	Dūlán Xiàn		ཏུའུ་ལན་རྫོང་	tu'u lan rdzong
	Tianjun County	天峻县	Tiānjùn Xiàn		ཐེན་ཅུན་རྫོང་	then cun rdzong
	Lenghu Administrative Committee 1	冷湖行政委员会	Lěnghú Xíngzhèng Wěiyuánhuì
	Da Qaidam Administrative Committee 1	大柴旦行政委员会	Dàcháidàn Xíngzhèng Wěiyuánhuì
	Mangya Administrative Committee 1	茫崖行政委员会	Mángyá Xíngzhèng Wěiyuánhuì

¹ — The administrative committees are not standard units of local government, though they do function as such.