Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture

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'''Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture''' ({{lang-zh|s=黄南藏族自治州|t=黃南藏族自治州 |p=Huángnán Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu}}; {{bo|t=རྨ་ལྷོ་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་|w=rma lho bod rigs rang skyong khul}}) is an autonomous prefecture of eastern Qinghai, northwest China, bordering Gansu to the east. The prefecture has an area of {{convert|17,921|km2|abbr=on}} and its seat is in Tongren County.

== Demographics == According to the 2000 census, Huangnan has 214,642 inhabitants with a population density of 11.98 inhabitants/km2 (31.03 inhabitants/sq. mi.).<ref>{{Cite web |last=Renming |first=Zhengfu |date=2023-04-24 |title=2022年黄南州国民经济和社会发展统计公报 |trans-title=en:Huangnan Prefecture National Economic and Social Development Statistics Bulletin 2022 |url=http://www.huangnan.gov.cn/html/contents/39/9332.html |access-date=2024-03-22 |website=en:Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture People's Government |language=zh |quote="人口和人民生活:年末全州人口为281044人。全州出生人口4523人。"}}</ref>

The ethnic composition in Huangnan according to the 2000 census was as follows:

{| border=1 style="border-collapse: collapse;" |-bgcolor=cccccc ! Nationality ! Population ! Percentage |- | Tibetan | 142,360 | 66.32% |- | Mongol | 29,071 | 13.54% |- | Hui | 16,411 | 7.65% |- | Han | 16,194 | 7.54% |- | Tu/Monguor | 8,445 | 3.93% |- | Salar | 1,530 | 0.71% |- | Others | 631 | 0.31% |}

==Climate== {{Weather box |location = Tongren County (1981–2010) |metric first = Yes |single line = Yes |width = auto |Jan record high C = 15.1 |Feb record high C = 21.6 |Mar record high C = 27.0 |Apr record high C = 32.7 |May record high C = 30.9 |Jun record high C = 31.3 |Jul record high C = 35.0 |Aug record high C = 34.2 |Sep record high C = 32.5 |Oct record high C = 23.4 |Nov record high C = 19.8 |Dec record high C = 13.9

|Jan low C = −12.2 |Feb low C = −9.2 |Mar low C = −3.9 |Apr low C = 1.4 |May low C = 5.8 |Jun low C = 9.1 |Jul low C = 11.2 |Aug low C = 10.5 |Sep low C = 7.4 |Oct low C = 1.4 |Nov low C = −5.4 |Dec low C = −10.6 |Jan record low C = −22.6 |Feb record low C = −19.5 |Mar record low C = -15.0 |Apr record low C = −9.3 |May record low C = −3.7 |Jun record low C = 1.2 |Jul record low C = 4.3 |Aug record low C = 2.3 |Sep record low C = −0.9 |Oct record low C = −10.5 |Nov record low C = −16.4 |Dec record low C = −21.5 |precipitation colour = green |Jan precipitation mm = 2.5 |Feb precipitation mm = 3.9 |Mar precipitation mm = 11.0 |Apr precipitation mm = 22.6 |May precipitation mm = 58.0 |Jun precipitation mm = 64.5 |Jul precipitation mm = 80.4 |Aug precipitation mm = 70.8 |Sep precipitation mm = 65.1 |Oct precipitation mm = 25.9 |Nov precipitation mm = 3.1 |Dec precipitation mm = 0.8 |source 1 = China Meteorological Administration<ref name= CMA >{{cite web |url = http://data.cma.cn/data/weatherBk.html |script-title=zh:中国地面国际交换站气候标准值月值数据集（1981－2010年） |publisher = China Meteorological Administration |access-date = January 1, 2011 | language = zh-hans}}</ref>}}

==Subdivisions== The prefecture is subdivided into 4 county-level divisions: 1 county-level city, 2 counties and 1 autonomous county:

{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:90%;" align=center !colspan="9" align="center" | Map |- |colspan="9" align="center" | <div style="position: relative" class="center"> {{Image label begin|image=Administrative Division Huangnan.png|width=445|link=}} {{Image label|x=1340|y=920|scale=445/1780|text='''Tongren {{small|(city)}}'''}} {{Image label|x=1150|y=340|scale=445/1780|text='''Jianzha County'''}} {{Image label|x=690|y=1290|scale=445/1780|text='''Zeku County'''}} {{Image label|x=670|y=2060|scale=445/1780|text='''Henan County'''}} {{Image label end}} </div> |- ! Name ! Simplified Chinese ! Hanyu Pinyin ! Tibetan ! Wylie Tibetan Pinyin ! Population {{small|(2010 Census)}} ! Area (km2) ! Density (/km2) |- |Tongren city |{{lang|zh-Hans|同仁市}} |{{transliteration|zh|Tóngrén shì}} |{{small|'''Official:'''}} {{lang|bo|ཐུང་རིན་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།}} ({{lang|bo|རེབ་གོང་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།}} or {{lang|bo|རེ་སྐོང་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།}}) |{{transliteration|bo|thung rin grong khyer}} {{transliteration|bo|Tungrin Chongkyêr}} |92,601 |3,465 |26.72 |- |Jainca County (Jianzha County) |{{lang|zh-Hans|尖扎县}} |{{transliteration|zh|Jiānzhā Xiàn}} |{{lang|bo|གཅན་ཚ་རྫོང་།}} |{{transliteration|bo|gcan tsha rdzong}} {{transliteration|bo|Jainca Zong}} |55,325 |1,712 |32.31 |- |Zêkog County (Zeku County) |{{lang|zh-Hans|泽库县}} |{{transliteration|zh|Zékù Xiàn}} |{{lang|bo|རྩེ་ཁོག་རྫོང་།}} |{{transliteration|bo|rtse khog rdzong}} {{transliteration|bo|Zêkog Zong}} |69,416 |6,494 |10.68 |- |Henan Mongol Autonomous County |{{lang|zh-Hans|河南蒙古族 自治县}} |{{transliteration|zh|Hénán Měnggǔzú Zìzhìxiàn}} |{{lang|bo|རྨ་ལྷོ་སོག་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་རྫོང་།}} |{{transliteration|bo|rma lho sog rigs rang skyong rdzong}} {{transliteration|bo|Malho Sogrig Ranggyong Zong}} |39,374 |6,250 |6.29 |}

==Rongwo Monastery== Huangnan is home to Rongwo Monastery, a Gelug monastery initially established in 1341 in Amdo on the Rongwo River.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.baronet4tibet.com/sange_shong_info/rongwu.html |title=Rongwu Monastery and town |website=baronet4tibet.com |access-date=2015-05-09 |archive-date=2009-01-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090106143352/http://www.baronet4tibet.com/sange_shong_info/rongwu.html |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | last = Staff | title = Longwu Temple - garden of Tibetan Buddhism and Western Region | publisher = China Tour Guide | date = 6 February 2008 | url = http://tour.iflove.com/longwu-temple-garden-of-tibetan-buddhism-and-western-region/ | access-date = 2010-02-04 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100214065348/http://tour.iflove.com/longwu-temple-garden-of-tibetan-buddhism-and-western-region/ | archive-date = 14 February 2010 | url-status = dead }}</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}}

== 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}}

{{Qinghai}} {{Prefectural-level divisions of the People's Republic of China}} {{Tibetan autonomy in the People's Republic of China}} {{authority control}}

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