Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture

Hainan Prefecture
海南州 · མཚོ་ལྷོ་ཁུལ།
海南藏族自治州 · མཚོ་ལྷོ་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ
Qinghai Lake
Location of Hainan Prefecture in Qinghai
Location of Hainan Prefecture in Qinghai
CountryPeople's Republic of China
ProvinceQinghai
Named forSouth of Qinghai Lake
Prefecture seatGonghe County (Qabqa)
Area
 • Autonomous prefecture44,546.21 km2 (17,199.39 sq mi)
 • Water2,981.55 km2 (1,151.18 sq mi)
Highest elevation
5,305 m (17,405 ft)
Lowest elevation
2,168 m (7,113 ft)
Population
 (2020)
 • Autonomous prefecture446,996
 • Density10/km2 (26/sq mi)
 • Rural
267,100
GDP[1]
 • Autonomous prefectureCN¥ 14.0 billion
US$ 2.3 billion
 • Per capitaCN¥ 30,379
US$ 4,878
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
ISO 3166 codeCN-QH-25
Websitewww.hainanzhou.gov.cn
Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
Chinese name
Chinese海南藏族自治州
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinHǎinán Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu
Tibetan name
Tibetanམཚོ་ལྷོ་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ
Transcriptions
Wyliemtsho-lho bod-rigs rang-skyong-khul
Tibetan PinyinColho Poirig Ranggyong Kü

Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, formerly known as Tsolho Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture[2] (Chinese: 海南藏族自治州; Tibetan: མཚོ་ལྷོ་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་), is an autonomous prefecture of Northeastern Qinghai Province in Western China. The prefecture has an area of 45,895 square kilometres (17,720 sq mi) and its seat is located in Gonghe County. Its name literally means "south of (Qinghai) Lake."[3]

  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. ^ Committee, Canada Tibet. "Canada Tibet Committee | Library | WTN | Archive | Old". www.tibet.ca. Retrieved 2017-07-14.
  3. ^ "青海海南藏族自治州". National Ethnic Affairs Commission.