Yushu City, Qinghai

Yushu
玉树市 · ཡུལ་ཤུལ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།
Yüxü
Yushu (red) in Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (yellow) and Qinghai
Yushu (red) in Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (yellow) and Qinghai
Yushu is located in Qinghai
Yushu
Yushu
Location of the seat in Qinghai
Coordinates: 33°00′N 97°00′E / 33.000°N 97.000°E / 33.000; 97.000
CountryChina
ProvinceQinghai
Autonomous prefectureYushu
Municipal seatGyêgu
Area
 • Total13,462 km2 (5,198 sq mi)
Elevation
3,689 m (12,103 ft)
Population
 (2020)[1]
 • Total141,308
 • Density10/km2 (27/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Postal code
815000
Area code0976
Websitewww.yushushi.gov.cn
Yushu City, Qinghai
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese玉树市
Traditional Chinese玉樹市
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinYùshù Shì
Tibetan name
Tibetanཡུལ་ཤུལ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར། or ཡུས་ཧྲུའུ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།
Transcriptions
Wylieyul shul grong khyer or yus hruʼu grong khyer
Tibetan PinyinYüxü Chongkyêr or Yüshu Chongkyêr

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.

  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).