Haibei

Haibei's location within Qinghai Province

Tibetan name
Tibetan script : མཚོ་ བྱང་ བོད་ རིགས་ རང་སྐྱོང་ ཁུལ །
Wylie transliteration : mtsho byang bod rigs rang skyong khul
Chinese name
Simplified : 海北藏族自治州
Pinyin : Hǎiběi Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu

The Tibetan Autonomous District Haibei ( Chinese 海北藏族自治州 , Pinyin Hǎiběi Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu ; Tibetan མཚོ་ བྱང་ བོད་ རིགས་ རང་སྐྱོང་ ཁུལ་ mtsho-byang bod-rigs rang-skyong-khul ) is located in the northeast of the Chinese province Qinghai and is part of the Tibetan cultural region Amdo . The Tibetan name is Tshojang. Its administrative seat is the large community of Xihai (西海镇Xihai zhen ) in Haiyan County, a small town that has developed from the former nuclear research institute, which operated under the name "Ninth Academy" in the west (closed in 1987). Haibei has an area of 39,354 km² and approx. 281,200 inhabitants (2016). The autonomous district is subordinate to three districts and one autonomous district:

Haiyan district (海晏县), main town: Sanjiaocheng (三角城镇), 4,348 km², approx. 30,000 inhabitants;
Qilian district (祁连县), capital: Babao municipality (八宝镇), 15,610 km², approx. 50,000 inhabitants;
Gangca district (刚察县), capital: Shaliuhe municipality (沙柳河镇), 12,500 km², approx. 40,000 inhabitants;
Menyuan Hui Autonomous County (门源回族自治县), capital: Haomen municipality (浩门镇), 6,896 km², approx. 150,000 inhabitants.

Ethnic breakdown of the population (2000)

In the 2000 census, Haibei had 258,922 inhabitants (population density: 6.58 inh / km²).

Name of the people	Residents	proportion of
Han	94,841	36.63%
Hui	79,190	30.58%
Tibetans	62,520	24.15%
Mongols	13,087	5.05%
Do	7,806	3.01%
Salar	901	0.35%
Others	577	0.23%

Haibei

Ethnic breakdown of the population (2000)

See also