Delingha

Delingha 德令哈市 · ᠳᠡᠯᠡᠬᠡᠢ ᠬᠣᠲᠠ · གཏེར་ལེན་ཁ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།
County-level city
Location of Delingha City (red) within Haixi Prefecture (yellow) and Qinghai
Delingha Location of the city centre in Qinghai
Coordinates (Delingha municipal government): 37°22′12″N 97°21′41″E / 37.3699°N 97.3615°E / 37.3699; 97.3615
Country	China
Province	Qinghai
Autonomous prefecture	Haixi
Municipal seat	Hexi Subdistrict
Area [1]
• Total	27,700 km2 (10,700 sq mi)
Elevation	2,982 m (9,783 ft)
Population  (2020)[2]
• Total	88,227
• Density	3.2/km2 (8.2/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Postal code	817000
Area code	0977
Website	www.delingha.gov.cn

Delingha
Chinese name
Chinese	德令哈市
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Délìnghā Shì
Tibetan name
Tibetan	གཏེར་ལིན་ཁ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།
Transcriptions Wylie gter lin kha grong khyer Tibetan Pinyin Dêrlinka Chongkyêr
Mongolian name
Mongolian script
Transcriptions SASM/GNC Delhi hot

Delingha (Chinese: 德令哈; Tibetan: གཏེར་ལིན་ཁ།), or Delhi (Mongolian: ᠳᠡᠯᠡᠬᠡᠢ ᠬᠣᠲᠠ), is the seat of the Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in northern Qinghai province, China. It is located approximately 200 km (120 mi) southeast of the Da Qaidam Administrative Region. It is a mainly industrial county-level city. The Bayin River divides the city into two parts: Hedong and Hexi. Because the prefecture seat is located in Hedong, it is slightly more flourishing than Hexi, which is chiefly agricultural.^[1]

Established in 1988, Delingha administers seven township-level divisions covering an area of 27,700 km² (10,700 sq mi) and has a total population of 78,184, making it the smallest of the five cities in Qinghai. The name of the city comes from Mongolian and means "golden world" (ᠠᠯᠲᠠᠨ ᠳᠡᠯᠡᠬᠡᠢ),^[1] reflecting the relatively large Mongol population of the city. Da Qaidam administrative zone merged into Delingha in mid-2018.