Henan Mongol Autonomous County

Henan County
County
河南蒙古族自治县 · ᠡᡁᠨᠠᠨ ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠥᠪᠡᠷᠲᠡᠭᠡᠨ ᠵᠠᠰᠠᠬᠤ ᠵᠧᠦ · རྨ་ལྷོ་སོག་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་རྫོང་། Henan Mongol Autonomous County
Location of Henan County (red) in Huangnan Prefecture (yellow) and Qinghai
Henan Location of the seat in Qinghai
Coordinates: 34°32′N 101°31′E
Country	People's Republic of China
Province	Qinghai
Autonomous prefecture	Huangnan
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)

Henan Mongol Autonomous County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	河南蒙古族自治县
Traditional Chinese	河南蒙古族自治縣
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Hénán Ménggǔ Zìzhìxiàn Yue: Cantonese Jyutping ho4naam4 mung4gu2zuk6 zi6zi6jyun2
Tibetan name
Tibetan	རྨ་ལྷོ་སོག་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་རྫོང་།
Transcriptions Wylie rma lho sog rigs rang skyong rdzong Tibetan Pinyin Malho Sogrig Ranggyong Zong
Mongolian name
Mongolian Cyrillic	Хөнаний монгол өөртөө засах шянь
Mongolian script	ᠡᡁᠨᠠᠨ ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠥᠪᠡᠷᠲᠡᠭᠡᠨ ᠵᠠᠰᠠᠬᠤ ᠵᠧᠦ

Henan Mongol Autonomous County is an autonomous county in the south of Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in the province of Qinghai, China, bordering Gansu province to the south and east. Its administrative seat ("capital") is the town of Yêgainnyin (Youganning). Henan has an area of 6,250 km² (2,410 sq mi) and approximately 30,000 inhabitants (2004). The Mongols or Upper Mongols, the overwhelming majority of the inhabitants of the county, do not speak Mongolian (with relatively few exceptions) and speak primarily Tibetan and Putonghua Chinese. Population percentages by ethnic group given below are based on government-issued identification cards and not necessarily how the population of this area would identify their ethnicity.

Ethnic groups in Henan, 2000 census

Nationality	Population	Percentage
Mongol	28,879	89.55%
Han	1,444	4.48%
Tibetan	863	2.68%
Hui	821	2.54%
Tu	144	0.45%
Salar	45	0.14%
Bai	19	0.06%
Bonan	13	0.04%
Dongxiang	11	0.03%
Yi	6	0.02%
Others	5	0.02%

See also

• List of administrative divisions of Qinghai