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Revision as of 19:54, 16 April 2011 by Xiaoyu of Yuxi (talk | contribs) (actually means "north of the sea", but it would be confusing to accommodate)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff) Autonomous prefecture in Qinghai, China| Haibei Prefecture | |
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| 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 Pinyin | Hǎiběi Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu |
| Tibetan transcription(s) | |
| • Tibetan script | མཚོ་བཡྣང་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ |
| • Wylie | mtsho-byang bod-rigs rang-skyong-khul |
| • Tibetan pinyin | Cojang Poirig Ranggyong Kü |
.png) The territory of Haibei prefecture-level city (yellow) within Qinghai | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Qinghai |
| Prefecture seat | Haiyan County |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (Chinese: 海北藏族自治州 Template:Lang-bo) 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 |
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| 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:
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| # | 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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