Xinghai County

Xinghai County
兴海县 · བྲག་དཀར་རྫོང་།
Xinghai County (red) within Hainan Prefecture (yellow) and Qinghai
Xinghai County (red) within Hainan Prefecture (yellow) and Qinghai
Xinghai is located in Qinghai
Xinghai
Xinghai
Location of the seat in Qinghai
Coordinates (Xinghai government): 35°35′22″N 99°59′22″E / 35.5894°N 99.9894°E / 35.5894; 99.9894
CountryChina
ProvinceQinghai
Prefecture-level cityHainan
County seatZigortang
Area
 • Total13,158 km2 (5,080 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)[1]
 • Total75,833
 • Density5.8/km2 (15/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Postal code
813300
Area code0974
Websitewww.xinghai.gov.cn
Xinghai County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese兴海县
Traditional Chinese興海縣
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinXīnghǎi Xiàn
Tibetan name
Tibetanབྲག་དཀར་རྫོང་། or ཞིན་ཧེ་རྫོང་།
Transcriptions
Wyliebrag dkar rdzong or zhin he rdzong
Tibetan PinyinXinhê Zong or Zhaggar Zong

Xinghai County (Chinese: 兴海县; Tibetan: བྲག་དཀར་རྫོང་།) is a county under the jurisdiction of Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, in the east-central part of Qinghai Province, China.

Xinghai has an area of 13,158 km2 (5,080 sq mi), and a 2001 population of 60,000.

  1. ^ "海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 Hainan Prefecture. 2021-06-25.