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location of Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture within Qinghai

Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (simplified Chinese: 海北藏族自治州; pinyin: Hǎiběi Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu; Tibetan: མཚོ་བཡྣང་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་; Wylie: Mtsho-byang Bod-rigs rang-skyong-khul) is an autonomous prefecture of Qinghai province in China. The prefecture has an area of 39,354 km² and its capital is Haiyan county. The placename literally means "north of the Qinghai Lake."

Demographics

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

Ethnic groups in Haibei, 2000 census

Nationality 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:

  • Haiyan county (海晏县)
  • Qilian county (祁连县)
  • Gangca county (刚察县)
  • Menyuan Hui Autonomous County (门源回族自治县)
County-level divisions of Qinghai Province
Prefecture-level
cities
Xining
Haidong
Autonomous
prefectures
Haibei
Huangnan
Hainan
Golog
Yushu
Haixi
  • These are administrative zones, which are not standard units of local government, though they do function as such.

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