Huzhu Tu Autonomous County

Huzhu
互助县
互助土族自治县
Huzhu Tu Autonomous County
Huzhu Mongghul njeenaa dagnagu xan
Gönlung Jampa Ling monastery in Huzhu County
Huzhu is located in Qinghai
Huzhu
Huzhu
Location of the seat in Qinghai
Coordinates: 36°51′N 102°06′E / 36.850°N 102.100°E / 36.850; 102.100
CountryChina
ProvinceQinghai
Prefecture-level cityHaidong
County seatWeiyuan Town
Area
 • Total3,424 km2 (1,322 sq mi)
Population
 (2019)
 • Total438,067
 • Density130/km2 (330/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Websitehttp://www.huzhu.gov.cn/
Huzhu Tu Autonomous County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese互助土族自治县
Traditional Chinese互助土族自治縣
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinHùzhù Tǔzú Zìzhìxiàn
Tibetan name
Tibetanཧུའུ་ཀྲུའུ་ཐུའུ་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་རྫོང་། or དགོན་ལུང་རྫོང་།
Transcriptions
Wyliehuʼu kruʼu thuʼu rigs rang skyong rdzong or
dgon lung rdzong

Huzhu Tu Autonomous County (Chinese: 互助土族自治县; Monguor: Huzhu Mongghul njeenaa dagnagu xan), or in short Huzhu County (互助县), is an autonomous county under the jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city of Haidong, in the east of Qinghai province, China, bordering Gansu province to the northeast.[1] It has an area of 3,321 km2 (1,282 sq mi) and approximately 370,000 inhabitants (2004). Its seat is the town of Weiyuan.

The monastery of Chuzang, located in the town of Nanmenxia some 20 km (12 mi) northwest of the seat of Huzhu County, is listed as a national monument of China (since 2006).

The Xining Caojiabao Airport (IATA: XNN, ICAO: ZLXN) which serves Xining, capital of Qinghai Province, is located in the county.

  1. ^ Janhunen, Juha (2006-01-27). The Mongolic Languages. Routledge. pp. 286–287. ISBN 978-1-135-79690-7.