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'''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) is an ] of ] province in ]. The prefecture has ] of 17,921 km² and its ] is ]. '''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) is an ] of ] province in ]. The prefecture has ] of 17,921 km² and its ] is ] (the historic region of ]).


== Demographics == == Demographics ==

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location of Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture within Qinghai

Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (simplified Chinese: 黄南藏族自治州; pinyin: Huángnán Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu; Tibetan: རྨ་ལྷོ་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་; Wylie: Rma-lho Bod-rigs rang-skyong-khul) is an autonomous prefecture of Qinghai province in China. The prefecture has area of 17,921 km² and its capital is Tongren county (the historic region of Rebkong).

Demographics

According to the 2000 census, Huangnan has 214,642 inhabitants with a population density of 11.98 inhabitants/km².

Ethnic groups in Huangnan, 2000 census

Nationality Population Percentage
Tibetan 142,360 66.32%
Mongol 29,071 13.54%
Hui 16,411 7.65%
Han 16,194 7.54%
Tu 8,445 3.93%
Salar 1,530 0.71%
Others 631 0.31%

Subdivisions

The prefecture is subdivided into 4 county-level divisions: 3 counties and 1 autonomous county:

  • counties: Tongren county (同仁县), Jainca county (尖扎县), Zekog county (泽库县)
  • autonomous county: Henan Mongol Autonomous County (河南蒙古族自治县)

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
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