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Menyuan County
门源县 · مٍیُوًا · འཇུ་ལག་རྫོང་། | |
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门源回族自治县 · مٍیُوًا خُوِذُو ذِجِشِیًا · སེམས་ཉིད་ཧུའེ་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཞན། Hualong Hui Autonomous County | |
Coordinates: 37°26′N 101°42′E / 37.433°N 101.700°E | |
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 Hui Autonomous County | |||||||
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Chinese name | |||||||
Simplified Chinese | 门源回族自治县 | ||||||
Traditional Chinese | 門源回族自治縣 | ||||||
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Tibetan name | |||||||
Tibetan | སེམས་ཉིད་ཧུའེ་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཞན། or འཇུ་ལག་རྫོང་། | ||||||
Mongolian name | |||||||
Mongolian script | ᠮᠧᠨ ᠶᠤᠸᠠᠨ ᠬᠣᠲᠣᠩ ᠦᠨᠳᠦᠰᠦᠲᠡᠨ ᠦ ᠥᠪᠡᠷᠲᠡᠭᠡᠨ ᠵᠠᠰᠠᠬᠤ ᠰᠢᠶᠠᠨ |
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.