Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture

Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (Chinese: 海北藏族自治州; Tibetan: མཚོ་བྱང་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་, Wylie: mtsho-byang bod-rigs rang-skyong-khul, Tib.pin.: cojang poirig ranggyong kü) is an autonomous prefecture of northeastern Qinghai Province, China. The prefecture has an area of 39,354 square kilometres (15,195 sq mi) and its seat is Haiyan County. Its name literally means "north of Qinghai Lake." This Tibetan culture area was incorporated into Qinghai province in the early 1950s, as it lies distant from the Tibet Autonomous Region.^[2]

Haibei Prefecture 海北州 · མཚོ་བྱང་ཁུལ།
Autonomous prefecture
Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 海北藏族自治州 · མཚོ་བྱང་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ
Qilian Mountains
Location of Haibei Prefecture in Qinghai
Country	People's Republic of China
Province	Qinghai
Prefecture seat	Haiyan County (Xihai)
Area
• Total	33,350 km2 (12,880 sq mi)
Population  (2010)
• Total	273,304
• Density	8.2/km2 (21/sq mi)
GDP[1]
• Total	CN¥ 9.5 billion US$ 1.5 billion
• Per capita	CN¥ 34,122 US$ 5,479
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
ISO 3166 code	CN-QH-22

Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
Chinese name
Chinese	海北藏族自治州
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Hǎiběi Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu
Tibetan name
Tibetan	མཚོ་བྱང་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ
Transcriptions Wylie mtsho-byang bod-rigs rang-skyong-khul Tibetan Pinyin Cojang Poirig Ranggyong Kü

Demographics

According to the 2000 census, Haibei had 258,922 inhabitants with a population density of 6.58 inhabitants/km².

The following is a list of ethnic groups in the prefecture, as of the 2000 census.

Ethnicity	Population	Percentage
Han	94,841	36.63%
Hui	79,190	30.58%
Tibetan	62,520	24.15%
Mongol	13,087	5.05%
Tu/Monguor	7,806	3.01%
Salar	901	0.35%
Others	577	0.23%

Subdivisions

The prefecture is subdivided into 4 county-level divisions: 3 counties, and 1 autonomous county:

Map
Menyuan County Qilian County Haiyan County Gangcha County
Name	Hanzi	Hanyu Pinyin	Tibetan	Wylie Tibetan Pinyin	Population (2010 Census)	Area (km2)	Density (/km2)
Haiyan County	海晏县	Hǎiyàn Xiàn	ཧའེ་ཡན་རྫོང་	ha'e yan rdzong Ha'êyan Zong	37,788	4,348	8.69
Qilian County	祁连县	Qílián Xiàn	ཆི་ལེན་རྫོང་	chi len rdzong Qilên Zong	46,473	15,610	2.97
Gangca County (Gangcha County)	刚察县	Gāngchá Xiàn	རྐང་ཚ་རྫོང་	rkang tsha rdzong Gangca Zong	41,333	12,500	3.30
Menyuan Hui Autonomous County	门源回族自治县	Ményuán Huízú Zìzhìxiàn	མོང་ཡོན་ཧུའེ་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་རྫོང་	mong yon hu'e rigs rang skyong rdzong Mongyoin Hu'êrig Ranggyong Zong	147,710	6,896	21.41