Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture

Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, formerly known as Tsolho Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (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."

Hainan Prefecture
海南州 · མཚོ་ལྷོ་ཁུལ།
海南藏族自治州 · མཚོ་ལྷོ་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ
Qinghai Lake
Location of Hainan Prefecture in Qinghai
CountryPeople's Republic of China
ProvinceQinghai
Named forSouth of Qinghai Lake
Prefecture seatGonghe County (Qabqa)
Area
  Autonomous prefecture44,546.21 km2 (17,199.39 sq mi)
  Water2,981.55 km2 (1,151.18 sq mi)
Highest elevation
5,305 m (17,405 ft)
Lowest elevation
2,168 m (7,113 ft)
Population
 (2020)
  Autonomous prefecture446,996
  Density10/km2 (26/sq mi)
  Rural
267,100
GDP
  Autonomous prefectureCN¥ 14.0 billion
US$ 2.3 billion
  Per capitaCN¥ 30,379
US$ 4,878
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
ISO 3166 codeCN-QH-25
Websitewww.hainanzhou.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
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