Yushu City, Qinghai

Yushu City, Qinghai
Yushu City, Qinghai
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	玉树市
Traditional Chinese	玉樹市
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Yùshù Shì
Tibetan name
Tibetan	ཡུལ་ཤུལ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར། or ཡུས་ཧྲུའུ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།
Wylie
Transcriptions
Wylie	yul shul grong khyer or yus hruʼu grong khyer
Tibetan Pinyin	Yüxü Chongkyêr or Yüshu Chongkyêr

Yushu

玉树市 · ཡུལ་ཤུལ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།
Yushu 玉树市 · ཡུལ་ཤུལ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།
County-level city
	Yüxü
	Yushu (red) in Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (yellow) and Qinghai
	Yushu Location of the seat in Qinghai
	Coordinates: 33°00′N 97°00′E / 33.000°N 97.000°E
Country	China
Province	Qinghai
Autonomous prefecture	Yushu
Municipal seat	Gyêgu
Area
• Total	13,462 km2 (5,198 sq mi)
Elevation	3,689 m (12,103 ft)
Population (2020)
• Total	141,308
• Density	10/km2 (27/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Postal code	815000
Area code	0976
Website	www.yushushi.gov.cn

Yushu (Tibetan: ཡུལ་ཤུལ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།, Chinese: 玉树市), also Romanized as Yüxü, is a county-level city^[2] of Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Southern Qinghai Province, China. It comprises a surface area of 13,462 square kilometres (5,198 sq mi).^[3] In 2010, the overall city's population was 120,447 and 56,802 live within the city core. There are around 356,000 people in the metropolitan area in 2020. Yushu is the fourth largest city in Qinghai.

The city seat is the town of Gyêgu (also known as Yushu and Jiegu in Chinese), built in the valley of the Batang River, a right tributary of the Tongtian, which becomes the Jinsha at their confluence. All of these makeups part of the Yangtze watershed. In fact, almost the entire area of Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture is nomadic pastureland, except for Yushu city.

^ "玉树州第七次全国人口普查公报（第二号）——市县级常住人口情况" (in Chinese). The Paper. 2021-06-30.
^ 民政部关于同意青海省撤销玉树县设立县级玉树市的批复 [Ministry of Civil Affairs approves the approval of Qinghai Province to revoke the establishment of a county-level Yushu City in Yushu County] (in Chinese). Archived from the original on December 19, 2013.
^ For comparison, the total surface area of Beijing municipality is 16,801.25 km² (6,487.00 sq mi).

[1] "玉树州第七次全国人口普查公报（第二号）——市县级常住人口情况" (in Chinese). The Paper. 2021-06-30.

[2] 民政部关于同意青海省撤销玉树县设立县级玉树市的批复 [Ministry of Civil Affairs approves the approval of Qinghai Province to revoke the establishment of a county-level Yushu City in Yushu County] (in Chinese). Archived from the original on December 19, 2013.

[3] For comparison, the total surface area of Beijing municipality is 16,801.25 km² (6,487.00 sq mi).

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