Guyuan

Guyuan
Coordinates	36 ° 0 ′ N , 106 ° 17 ′ E Coordinates: 36 ° 0 ′ N , 106 ° 17 ′ E
Basic data
Country	People's Republic of China
Autonomous area	Ningxia
Greater Region	Northwest China
ISO 3166-2	CN-NX
surface	14,421 km²
Residents	1,211,800 (end of 2015)
density	84 Ew. / km²

Location of Guyuan in Ningxia

Xumishan Budda Cave in Guyuan

Guyuan ( Chinese 固原市 , Pinyin Gùyuán Shì ) is a district-free city in the Ningxia Autonomous Region of the Hui nationality in the People's Republic of China . Guyuan's administrative area, which is divided into an urban district and four counties with a total of around 1.21 million inhabitants (as of the end of 2015), occupies the entire southern tip of the autonomous region. It borders the cities of Wuzhong and Zhongwei (both in Ningxia) to the north and is completely surrounded by Gansu Province to the east, west and south .

The city of Guyuan emerged from the former government district of Guyuan (固原地区). After the State Council of the People's Republic of China decided on July 7, 2001 to dissolve the administrative district and the Guyuan County (固原县), this decision was implemented administratively exactly one year later and thus the county-free city of Guyuan and - on the area of the former Guyuan County - the Yuanzhou District established. On December 31, 2003, Haiyuan County (海原县) was separated from Guyuan and incorporated into the northern neighboring city of Zhongwei.

Administrative structure

At the county level, Guyuan is made up of a municipality and four counties. These are:

District Yuanzhou (原州区), 4,965 km², 490,000 inhabitants, seat of the city government;
Circle Xiji (西吉县), km² 3985, 460,000 inhabitants, capital: greater community Jiqiang (吉强镇);
Longde district (隆德县), 1,269 km², 190,000 inhabitants, capital: Chengguan municipality (城关镇);
Kreis Jingyuan (泾源县), km² 961, population 120,000, capital: greater community Xiangshui (香水镇);
Pengyang County (彭阳县), 3,241 km², 250,000 inhabitants, capital: Baiyang Township (白阳镇).

Ethnic breakdown of the total population of Guyuan (2000)

According to the census (2000), the administrative area of the then administrative district of Guyuan had 1,727,361 inhabitants.

Name of the people	Residents	proportion of
Han	901.275	52.18%
Hui	823.288	47.66%
Dongxiang	1.910	0.11%
Manju	350	0.02%
Mongols	257	0.01%
Others	281	0.02%