Menyuan Hui Autonomous County

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Menyuan County 门源县 · مٍیُوًا‎ · འཇུ་ལག་རྫོང་།
Autonomous County
门源回族自治县 · مٍیُوًا خُوِذُو ذِجِشِیًا‎ · སེམས་ཉིད་ཧུའེ་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཞན། Hualong Hui Autonomous County
Location of Menyuan County (red) within Haibei Prefecture (yellow) and Qinghai
Menyuan Location of the seat in Qinghai
Coordinates: 37°26′N 101°42′E / 37.433°N 101.700°E / 37.433; 101.700
Country	China
Province	Qinghai
Autonomous prefecture	Haibei
County seat	Haomen Town
Area
• Total	6,381.65 km2 (2,463.97 sq mi)
Population  (2020)[1]
• Total	138,335
• Density	22/km2 (56/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Website	www.menyuan.gov.cn

Menyuan Hui Autonomous County (simplified Chinese: 门源回族自治县; traditional Chinese: 門源回族自治縣; pinyin: Ményuán Huízú Zìzhìxiàn, Xiao'erjing: مٍیُوًا خُوِذُو ذِجِشِیًا‎; Tibetan: སེམས་ཉིད་ཧུའེ་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཞན།) is a county in the northeast of Qinghai Province, China, bordering Gansu Province to the north. It is under the administration of Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. Menyuan is situated on the Datong River between the Qilian Mountains and Daban Mountains. Gangshiqia Peak rises dramatically in the north of the county. It used to be called Menyuan (亹源) in Chinese, with a different first character from the current name.