Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture

Haixi Prefecture
海西州 · ᠬᠠᠶᠢᠰᠢ ‍ᠶᠢᠨ ᠵᠧᠦ · མཚོ་ནུབ་ཁུལ།
Autonomous prefecture
Haixi Mongolian and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
海西蒙古族藏族自治州
ᠬᠠᠶᠢᠰᠢ ᠶᠢᠨ ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠲᠥᠪᠡᠳ ᠦᠨᠳᠦᠰᠦᠲᠡᠨ ᠦ ᠥᠪᠡᠷᠲᠡᠭᠡᠨ ᠵᠠᠰᠠᠬᠤ ᠵᠧᠦ
མཚོ་ནུབ་སོག་རིགས་ཆ་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་
Tanggula Mountains
Tanggula Mountains
Location of Haixi Prefecture in Qinghai
Location of Haixi Prefecture in Qinghai
Coordinates (Haixi Prefecture government): 37°23′N 97°22′E / 37.38°N 97.37°E / 37.38; 97.37
CountryChina
ProvinceQinghai
Prefectural seatDelingha
Area
 • Total325,785 km2 (125,786 sq mi)
Population
 (2017)[1]
 • Total515,200
 • Density1.6/km2 (4.1/sq mi)
 • Major Ethnic Groups
Han−66.01%
Hui−13.45%
Tibetan−10.93%
Mongolians−5.53%
GDP[2]
 • TotalCN¥ 50 billion
US$ 7 billion
 • Per capitaCN¥ 86,713
US$ 13,922
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Postal code
817000
Area code0977
ISO 3166 codeCN-QH-28
Websitewww.haixi.gov.cn
Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
Chinese name
Chinese海西蒙古族藏族自治州
Tibetan name
Tibetanམཚོ་ནུབ་སོག་རིགས་ཆ་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་
Mongolian name
Mongolian CyrillicХайши монгол ба Түвдийн өөртөө засах муж
(Qayisi-yin Mongɣol Töbed ündüsüten-ü öbertegen zasaqu jvu)
Mongolian scriptᠬᠠᠶᠢᠰᠢ ᠶᠢᠨ ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠲᠥᠪᠡᠳ ᠦᠨᠳᠦᠰᠦᠲᠡᠨ ᠦ ᠥᠪᠡᠷᠲᠡᠭᠡᠨ ᠵᠠᠰᠠᠬᠤ ᠵᠧᠦ

Haixi Mongolian and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (Chinese: 海西蒙古族藏族自治州; Mongolian: ᠬᠠᠶᠢᠰᠢ ᠶᠢᠨ ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠲᠥᠪᠡᠳ ᠦᠨᠳᠦᠰᠦᠲᠡᠨ ᠦ ᠥᠪᠡᠷᠲᠡᠭᠡᠨ ᠵᠠᠰᠠᠬᠤ ᠵᠧᠦ; Tibetan: མཚོ་ནུབ་སོག་རིགས་ཆ་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་), locally also known as Qaidam Prefecture (Mongolian: ᠴᠠᠢᠳᠠᠮ; Tibetan: ཚྭ་འདམ་; Chinese: 柴达木), is an autonomous prefecture occupying much of the northern half of (as well as part of the southwest of) Qinghai Province, China. It has an area of 325,785 square kilometres (125,786 sq mi) and its seat is Delingha. The name of the prefecture literally means "west of (Qinghai) Lake."

Geladandong Mountain, the source of the Yangtze River, is located here.

History

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" (with the "Tibetan" added to the official county name). In 1985, after the Kazakhs had returned to Xinjiang, it was again renamed to Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.[3]

Demographics

As of the 2017 census, Haixi had 515,200 inhabitants.

The following is a composition of ethnic groups in the prefecture, taken in the 2010 Census.

Nationality Population Percentage
Han 322,996 66.01%
Tibetan 53,498 10.93%
Hui 65,828 13.45%
Mongolian 27,043 5.53%
Tu/Monguor 9,952 2.03%
Salar 4,665 0.95%
Dongxiang 2,734 0.56%
Manchu 684 0.14%
Tujia 346 0.07%
Kazakh 525 0.11%
Others 1066 0.22%

Subdivisions

Haixi directly governs 3 county-level cities and 3 counties.

Map
Name Hanzi Hanyu Pinyin Mongolian
(Transcription from Mongolian) 		Tibetan Wylie
Tibetan Pinyin 		Population
(2010) 		Area (km2) Density
(/km2)
Delingha City
(Delhi City) 		德令哈市 Délìnghā Shì ᠳᠡᠯᠡᠬᠡᠢ ᠬᠣᠲᠠ
Delekei qota 		གཏེར་ལེན་ཁ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར། gter len kha grong khyer
Dêrlênka Chongkyir 		91,855 61,613 1.49
Golmud City
(Ge'ermu City) 		格尔木市 Gé'ěrmù Shì ᠭᠣᠯᠮᠣᠣᠠ ᠬᠣᠲᠠ
Ɣool modu qota 		ན་གོར་མོ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར། na gor mo grong khyer
Nakormo Chongkyir 		215,213 123,460 1.74
Mangnai City
(Mangya City) 		茫崖市 Mángyá Shì ᠮᠠᠨᠭᠨᠠᠢ ᠶᠢᠨ ᠬᠣᠲᠠ
Mangnai-yin qota 		མང་ནེ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར། mang ne grong khyer
Mangnai Chongkyir 		33,451 49,000 0.63
Ulan County
(Wulan County) 		乌兰县 Wūlán Xiàn ᠤᠯᠠᠭᠠᠨ ᠰᠢᠶᠠᠨ
Ulaγan siyan 		ཝུའུ་ལན་རྫོང་ wu'u lan rdzong
Wu'ulain Zong 		38,723 10,784 3.59
Dulan County 都兰县 Dūlán Xiàn ᠳᠤᠯᠠᠭᠠᠨ ᠰᠢᠶᠠᠨ
Dulaγan siyan 		ཏུའུ་ལན་རྫོང་ tu'u lan rdzong
Tu'ulain Zong 		76,623 50,000 1.53
Tianjun County 天峻县 Tiānjùn Xiàn ᠲᠢᠶᠡᠨ ᠵᠢᠶᠦ᠋ᠨ ᠰᠢᠶᠠᠨ
Tiyen ǰiyün siyan 		ཐེན་ཅུན་རྫོང་ then cun rdzong
Têncün Zong 		33,923 20,000 1.70
Da Qaidam Administrative Zone
(Ih'qaidam Administrative Zone) 		大柴旦行政委员会 Dàcháidàn Xíngzhèng Wěiyuánhuì ᠶᠡᠬᠡ ᠴᠠᠢᠢᠳᠠᠮ ᠤᠨ ᠵᠠᠰᠠᠭ ᠵᠠᠬᠢᠷᠠᠭᠠᠨ ᠦ ᠵᠥᠪᠯᠡᠯ
Yeke čayidam-un ǰasaγ ǰaqiraγan-ü ǰöblel 		ཚྭ་འདམ་ཆེ་བའི་སྲིད་འཛིན་ཨུ་ཡོན་ལྷན་ཁང་། tshwa 'dam che ba'i srid 'dzin u yon lhan khang 13,671 34,000 0.40

Gallery

  • A picture taken in the southwestern part of the prefecture
    A picture taken in the southwestern part of the prefecture
  • The Qingzang Railway can be seen on the far left
    The Qingzang Railway can be seen on the far left

Notable features

Notes

  1. ^ According to 2010 China National Census
  2. ^ 青海省统计局、国家统计局青海调查总队 (August 2016). 《青海统计年鉴－2016》. 中国统计出版社. ISBN 978-7-5037-7834-6. Archived from the original on 2017-12-28. Retrieved 2017-06-05.
  3. ^ 海西州. Qinghai Bureau of Civil Affairs (青海省民政厅网站). Archived from the original on 2007-09-28. Retrieved 2006-12-15..
    For details, see: 海西蒙古族藏族自治州. XZQH.org.

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

External links

  • Official website of Haixi Government Archived 2021-02-24 at the Wayback Machine
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