Tongren, Qinghai

Tongren
同仁市 · ཐུང་རིན་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།
Rebgong
Tongren from above
Tongren from above
Tongren (light red) within Huangnan Prefecture (yellow) and Qinghai
Tongren (light red) within Huangnan Prefecture (yellow) and Qinghai
Tongren is located in Qinghai
Tongren
Tongren
Location of the seat in Qinghai
Coordinates (Tongren County government): 35°30′58″N 102°01′06″E / 35.5161°N 102.0183°E / 35.5161; 102.0183
CountryChina
ProvinceQinghai
Autonomous prefectureHuangnan
Municipal seatLongwu (Rongwo)
Area
 • Total3,275 km2 (1,264 sq mi)
Elevation
2,480 m (8,140 ft)
Population
 (2020)[1]
 • Total101,519
 • Density31/km2 (80/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Postal code
811399
Area code0973
Websitewww.hntongren.gov.cn
Tongren, Qinghai
Chinese name
Chinese同仁市
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinTóngrén Shì
Tibetan name
Tibetanཐུན་རིན་གྲོང་ཁྱེར། or རེབ་གོང་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།
Transcriptions
Wyliethun rin grong khyer or reb gong grong khyer

Tongren (Tibetan: ཐུན་རིན་, Wylie: thun rin; Chinese: 同仁; pinyin: Tóngrén), known to Tibetans as Rebgong (Tibetan: རེབ་གོང་, རེབ་ཀོང་ or རེབ་སྐོང་)[2] in the historic region of Amdo, is the capital and second smallest administrative subdivision by area within Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai, China.

The city has an area of 3465 square kilometers and a population of ~80,000 (2002), 75% Tibetan. The economy of the city includes agriculture and aluminium mining.

  1. ^ "黄南州第七次全国人口普查公报(第二号)——县级常住人口情况" (in Chinese). Government of Huangnan Prefecture. 2021-07-01.
  2. ^ "China Adds to Security Forces in Tibet Amid Calls for a Boycott" article by Edward Wong in The New York Times Feb. 18, 2009, accessed October 21, 2010