Haiyan (Haibei)

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Location of Haiyan County

Haiyan (海晏 县; Pinyin : Hǎiyàn Xiàn) is a district of the Haibei Autonomous District of the Tibetans in the northeast of the Chinese province of Qinghai . He is to be assigned to the Tibetan cultural region Amdo . Its main places are the large communities of Sanjiaocheng (三角 城镇) and Xihai (西海 镇). It has an area of ​​4,348 km² and has about 30,000 inhabitants.

The sites of the ruined city of Xihai Prefecture ( Xihai jun gucheng yizhi ) and China's first nuclear weapons research station ( Di-yi ge hewuqi yanzhi jidi jiuzhi ) are on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China .

Administrative structure

At the municipality level, the district consists of two large municipalities and five municipalities (two of which are Mongolian nationalities ). These are ( pinyin / chin.):

Ethnic breakdown of the population (2000)

At the 2000 census, Haiyan had 32,879 residents.

Name of the people Residents proportion of
Han 18,095 55.04%
Tibetans 8,122 24.7%
Mongols 4,743 14.43%
Hui 1,177 3.58%
Do 598 1.82%
Manju 50 0.15%
Salar 45 0.14%
Dongxiang 20th 0.06%
Zhuang 8th 0.02%
Bonan 5 0.02%
Yugur 5 0.02%
Others 11 0.03%

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Coordinates: 37 ° 3 '  N , 100 ° 47'  E