Huzhu
互助县 | |
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互助土族自治县 Huzhu Tu Autonomous County Huzhu Mongghul njeenaa dagnagu xan | |
Coordinates: 36°51′N 102°06′E / 36.850°N 102.100°E | |
Country | China |
Province | Qinghai |
Prefecture-level city | Haidong |
County seat | Weiyuan Town |
Area | |
• Total | 3,424 km2 (1,322 sq mi) |
Population (2019) | |
• Total | 438,067 |
• Density | 130/km2 (330/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
Website | http://www.huzhu.gov.cn/ |
Huzhu Tu Autonomous County | |||||||
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Chinese name | |||||||
Simplified Chinese | 互助土族自治县 | ||||||
Traditional Chinese | 互助土族自治縣 | ||||||
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Tibetan name | |||||||
Tibetan | ཧུའུ་ཀྲུའུ་ཐུའུ་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་རྫོང་། or དགོན་ལུང་རྫོང་། | ||||||
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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.