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Haibei Prefecture
Autonomous prefecture
海北藏族自治州 · མཚོ་བཡྣང་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ
Chinese transcription(s)
 • Chinese characters海北藏族自治州
 • Hanyu PinyinHǎiběi Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu
Tibetan transcription(s)
 • Tibetan scriptམཚོ་བཡྣང་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ
 • Wyliemtsho-byang bod-rigs rang-skyong-khul
 • Tibetan pinyinCojang Poirig Ranggyong Kü
The territory of Haibei prefecture-level city (yellow) within QinghaiThe territory of Haibei prefecture-level city (yellow) within Qinghai
CountryChina
ProvinceQinghai
Prefecture seatHaiyan County
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)

Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (Chinese: 海北藏族自治州; Tibetan: མཚོ་བཡྣང་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་) is an autonomous prefecture of northeastern Qinghai province in Western China. The prefecture has an area of 39,354 square kilometres (15,195 sq mi) and its seat is Haiyan County. Its name literally means "north of Qinghai Lake."

Demographics

According to the 2000 census, Haibei has 258,922 inhabitants with a population density of 6.58 inhabitants/km².

The following is a list of ethnic groups in the prefecture, 2000 census.

Ethnicity Population Percentage
Han 94,841 36.63%
Hui 79,190 30.58%
Tibetan 62,520 24.15%
Mongol 13,087 5.05%
Tu 7,806 3.01%
Salar 901 0.35%
Others 577 0.23%

Subdivisions

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

Map
# Name Hanzi Hanyu Pinyin Tibetan Wylie Population
(2003 est.)
Area (km²) Density
(/km²)
1 Haiyan County 海晏县 Hǎiyàn Xiàn ཧའེ་ཡན་རྫོང་ ha'e yan rdzong 30,000 4,348 7
2 Qilian County 祁连县 Qílián Xiàn ཆི་ལེན་རྫོང་ chi len rdzong 50,000 15,610 3
3 Gangca County 刚察县 Gāngchá Xiàn རྐང་ཚ་རྫོང་ rkang tsha rdzong 40,000 12,500 3
4 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
150,000 6,896 22
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