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,
Xiao'erjing
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; ) is a county in the northeast of
Qinghai Province
Qinghai is an inland province in Northwestern China. It is the largest province of China (excluding autonomous regions) by area and has the third smallest population. Its capital and largest city is Xining.
Qinghai borders Gansu on the nort ...
, China, bordering
Gansu Province
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to the north. It is under the administration of
Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. Menyuan is situated on the
Datong River 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
towns
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, 7
townships
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ethnic township:
Others:
*Menyuan Prison (门源监狱)
*Menyuan Stallion Ranch (门源种马场)
Climate
Transportation
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Lanzhou–Xinjiang High-Speed Railway (
Menyuan railway station)
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China National Highway 227
See also
*
List of administrative divisions of Qinghai
Qinghai, a province of the People's Republic of China, is made up of the following administrative divisions.
Administrative divisions
All of these administrative divisions are explained in greater detail at Administrative divisions of the People ...
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Gangshika Peak
References
County-level divisions of Qinghai
Hui autonomous counties
Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
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