Menyuan Hui Autonomous County ( zh, s=门源回族自治县, t=門源回族自治縣, p=Ményuán Huízú Zìzhìxiàn,

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: ; ) is a county in the northeast of

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, China, bordering

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to the north. It is under the administration of

Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture ( zh, c=海北藏族自治州; , , Tib.pin.: ''cojang poirig ranggyong kü'') is an autonomous prefecture of northeastern Qinghai Province, China. The prefecture has an area of and its seat is Haiyan Count ...

. Menyuan is situated on the

Datong River The Datong River (), known as the Julak Chu ( Tibetan: འཇུ་ལག་ཆུ་) in Amdo Tibetan, is a river of Qinghai in the Yellow River basin. It has a total length of , and a basin area of . It has an average annual flow of 90.5 cubic ...

between the

Qilian Mountains The Qilian Mountains (), together with the Altyn-Tagh sometimes known as the Nan Shan, as it is to the south of the Hexi Corridor, is a northern outlier of the Kunlun Mountains, forming the border between Qinghai and the Gansu provinces of n ...

and Daban Mountains. Gangshiqia Peak rises dramatically in the north of the county. It used to be called Menyuan () in Chinese, with a different first character from the current name.

Administrative divisions

Haiyan County is made up of 4

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, 7

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, and 1 ethnic township: Others: *Menyuan Prison (门源监狱) *Menyuan Stallion Ranch (门源种马场)

Climate

Transportation

* Lanzhou–Xinjiang High-Speed Railway ( Menyuan railway station) *

China National Highway 227 China National Highway 227 () runs from Zhangye, Gansu to Pu'er, Yunnan. It is 3,745 kilometres in length and runs south from Zhangye towards Menglian County of Pu'er. Route and distance See also * China National Highways External linksOffi ...

References

County-level divisions of Qinghai Hui autonomous counties Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture {{Qinghai-geo-stub