Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture

Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
Chinese name
Chinese	海西蒙古族藏族自治州
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Hǎixī Měnggǔzú Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu
Tibetan name
Tibetan	མཚོ་ནུབ་སོག་རིགས་ཆ་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ།
Wylie
Transcriptions
Wylie	mtsho-nub sog-rigs dang bod-rigs rang-skyong-khul
Tibetan Pinyin	Conub Sogrig Poirig Ranggyong Kü
Mongolian name
Mongolian Cyrillic	Хайши монгол ба Түвдийн өөртөө засах муж; (Qayisi-yin Mongɣol Töbed ündüsüten-ü öbertegen zasaqu jvu)
Mongolian script	ᠬᠠᠶᠢᠰᠢ ᠶᠢᠨ ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠲᠥᠪᠡᠳ ᠦᠨᠳᠦᠰᠦᠲᠡᠨ ᠦ ᠥᠪᠡᠷᠲᠡᠭᠡᠨ ᠵᠠᠰᠠᠬᠤ ᠵᠧᠦ
SASM/GNC
Transcriptions
SASM/GNC	Qayisi-yin Mongɣol Töbed ündüsüten-ü öbertegen zasaqu jvu

Haixi Prefecture

海西州 · ᠬᠠᠶᠢᠰᠢ ‍ᠶᠢᠨ ᠵᠧᠦ · མཚོ་ནུབ་ཁུལ།
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
	Location of Haixi Prefecture in Qinghai
	Coordinates (Haixi Prefecture government): 37°23′N 97°22′E / 37.38°N 97.37°E
Country	China
Province	Qinghai
Prefectural seat	Delingha
Area
• Total	325,785 km2 (125,786 sq mi)
Population (2017)
• Total	515,200
• Density	1.6/km2 (4.1/sq mi)
• Major Ethnic Groups	Han−66.01%; Hui−13.45%; Tibetan−10.93%; Mongolians−5.53%
GDP
• Total	CN¥ 50 billion; US$ 7 billion
• Per capita	CN¥ 86,713; US$ 13,922
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Postal code	817000
Area code	0977
ISO 3166 code	CN-QH-28
Website	www.haixi.gov.cn

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
Golmud (city) ※ Delingha (city) Mangnai (city) Ulan County Dulan County Tianjun County Da Qaidam ※
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] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 4) (help)	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] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 5) (help)	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] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 21) (help)	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

The southwestern exclave of the Haixi Prefecture, separated from the rest of the prefecture by a "panhandle" of the Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, is the Tanggula Town of Golmud City.

Gallery

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

Notable features

Delingha City
Qaidam Basin
Geladandong mountain
Headwaters of the Yangtze River
The Baigong Pipes

Notes

^ According to 2010 China National Census
^ 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.
^ 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.

External links

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

[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.

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