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Haibei Prefecture 海北州 ·མཚོ་བྱང་ཁུལ། | |
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| Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 海北藏族自治州 ·མཚོ་བྱང་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ | |
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 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 | 8.195/km2 (21.23/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 |
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| Chinese | 海北藏族自治州 | ||||||
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| Tibetan | མཚོ་བྱང་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ | ||||||
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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 anautonomous prefecture of northeasternQinghai Province, China. The prefecture has an area of 39,354 square kilometres (15,195 sq mi) and its seat isHaiyan County. Its name literally means "north ofQinghai Lake." This Tibetan culture area was incorporated into Qinghai province in the early 1950s, as it lies distant from theTibet Autonomous Region.[2]
According to the 2000census, 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 |
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| 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% |
The prefecture is subdivided into 4county-level divisions: 3counties, and 1autonomous county:
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| 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 | |
Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture is a pilot area for "Plateau Modern Ecological Animal Husbandry." This model integrates controlled grazing, pasture restoration, and sustainable livestock management to balance ecological conservation with the economic development of local herding communities on the fragile alpine grassland ecosystem.[3]
