Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture

Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, formerly known as Tsolho Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture[1] (Chinese: 海南藏族自治州; Tibetan: མཚོ་ལྷོ་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་ ), is an autonomous prefecture of Northeastern Qinghai Province in Western China. The prefecture has an area of 45,895 square kilometres (17,720 sq mi) and its seat is located in Gonghe County. Its name literally means "south of (Qinghai) Lake."

Not to be confused with Hainan Province.
Hainan Prefecture

海南州 · མཚོ་ལྷོ་ཁུལ།
Autonomous prefecture
海南藏族自治州 · མཚོ་ལྷོ་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ
Location of Hainan Prefecture in Qinghai
CountryPeople's Republic of China
ProvinceQinghai
Prefecture seatGonghe County (Qabqa)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
ISO 3166 codeCN-QH-25
Websiteqhhn.gov.cn
Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
Chinese name
Chinese海南藏族自治州
Tibetan name
Tibetanམཚོ་ལྷོ་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ

Demographics

According to the 2000 census, the prefecture has 375,426 inhabitants with a population density of 8.18 inhabitants/km2.

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

Ethnicity Population Percentage
Tibetan 235,663 62.77%
Han 105,337 28.06%
Hui 26,152 6.97%
Tu 3,750 1%
Mongol 2.637 0.7%
Salar 1,231 0.33%
Others 656 0.17%

Subdivisions

The prefecture is subdivided into 5 county-level divisions (5 counties):

Map
Name Hanzi Hanyu Pinyin Tibetan Wylie
Tibetan Pinyin		 Population
(2010 Census)		 Area (km2) Density
(/km2)
Gonghe County 共和县 Gònghé Xiàn གསེར་ཆེན་རྫོང་ gser chen rdzong
Gêrqên Zong		 122,966 16,050 7.66
Tongde County 同德县 Tóngdé Xiàn འབའ་རྫོང་ 'ba' rdzong
Pa Zong		 64,369 6,494 9.91
Guide County 贵德县 Guìdé Xiàn ཁྲི་ཀ་རྫོང་ thri ka rdzong
Triga Zong		 101,771 3,600 28.26
Xinghai County 兴海县 Xīnghǎi Xiàn བྲག་དཀར་རྫོང་ brag dkar rdzong
Zhag'gar Zong		 76,025 13,158 5.77
Guinan County 贵南县 Guìnán Xiàn མང་རྫོང་ mang rdzong
Mang Zong		 76,560 6,593 11.61

Further reading
  • A. Gruschke: The Cultural Monuments of Tibet’s Outer Provinces: Amdo - Volume 1. The Qinghai Part of Amdo, White Lotus Press, Bangkok 2001. ISBN 974-480-049-6
  • Tsering Shakya: The Dragon in the Land of Snows. A History of Modern Tibet Since 1947, London 1999, ISBN 0-14-019615-3

References
  1. Committee, Canada Tibet. "Canada Tibet Committee | Library | WTN | Archive | Old". www.tibet.ca. Retrieved 2017-07-14.

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