Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture

Haibei Prefecture
海北州 · མཚོ་བྱང་ཁུལ།
Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
海北藏族自治州 · མཚོ་བྱང་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ
Qilian Mountains
Location of Haibei Prefecture in Qinghai
Location of Haibei Prefecture in Qinghai
CountryPeople's Republic of China
ProvinceQinghai
Prefecture seatHaiyan County (Xihai)
Area
 • Total33,350 km2 (12,880 sq mi)
Population
 (2010)
 • Total273,304
 • Density8.2/km2 (21/sq mi)
GDP[1]
 • TotalCN¥ 9.5 billion
US$ 1.5 billion
 • Per capitaCN¥ 34,122
US$ 5,479
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
ISO 3166 codeCN-QH-22
Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
Chinese name
Chinese海北藏族自治州
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinHǎiběi Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu
Tibetan name
Tibetanམཚོ་བྱང་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ
Transcriptions
Wyliemtsho-byang bod-rigs rang-skyong-khul
Tibetan PinyinCojang Poirig Ranggyong Kü

Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (Chinese: 海北藏族自治州; Tibetan: མཚོ་བྱང་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་, Wylie: mtsho-byang bod-rigs rang-skyong-khul, Tib.pin.: cojang poirig ranggyong kü) is an autonomous prefecture of northeastern Qinghai Province, 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." This Tibetan culture area was incorporated into Qinghai province in the early 1950s, as it lies distant from the Tibet Autonomous Region.[2]

  1. ^ 青海省统计局、国家统计局青海调查总队 (August 2016). 《青海统计年鉴-2016》. 中国统计出版社. ISBN 978-7-5037-7834-6. Archived from the original on 2017-12-28. Retrieved 2017-06-05.
  2. ^ Norbu, Dawa (2001-09-27). China's Tibet Policy. Routledge. p. 244. ISBN 978-1-136-79793-4.