Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture

Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, also transliterated as Yüxü or Yulshul, is an autonomous prefecture of Southwestern , China. Largely inhabited by Tibetans, the prefecture has an area of 188,794 square kilometres and its seat is located in the town of in Yushu County, which is the place of the old Tibetan trade mart of Jyekundo.
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  • Type: Region with 425,000 residents
  • Description: Tibetan autonomous prefecture in Qinghai province, China
  • Also known as: “Jušu”, “Prefectura autonoma tibetana de Yushu”, “Tibetská autonomní prefektura Jü-šu”, “Yü-shu Tibetan Autonomous Chou”, “Yü-shu-tsang-tsu Tzu-chih-chou”, “Yulshul”, “Yülshül”, “Yushu (autonome Tibetaanse prefectuur)”, “Yushu Prefecture”, “Yüxü”, “ولاية يوشو التبتية ذاتية الحكم”, “玉树州”, and “玉树藏族自治州 ཡུལ་ཤུལ་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ།”

Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture

Latitude
34.398° or 34° 23′ 53″ north
Longitude
94.1902° or 94° 11′ 25″ east
Population
425,000
Elevation
4,758 metres (15,610 feet)
Open location code
8M6P95XR+63
Open­Street­Map ID
node 244082788
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­region
Geo­Names ID
1279540
Wiki­data ID
Q602936
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “يوشو”
  • Basque: “Yushu Tibetar Prefektura autonomoa”
  • Cebuano: “Yushu Zangzu Zizhizhou”
  • Chinese: “Yùshù Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu”
  • Chinese: “玉树”
  • Chinese: “玉树藏族自治州”
  • Chinese: “玉樹州”
  • Chinese: “玉樹藏族自治州”
  • Czech: “Jü-šu”
  • Danish: “Yushu”
  • Dutch: “Yushu”
  • Finnish: “Yushun tiibetiläisten autonominen prefektuuri”
  • French: “préfecture autonome tibétaine de Yushu”
  • French: “Préfecture autonome tibétaine de Yushu”
  • Gan Chinese: “玉树藏族自治州”
  • German: “Yushu”
  • Hebrew: “הנציבות האוטונומית הטיבטית יו’שו”
  • Indonesian: “Prefektur Otonom Tibet Yushu”
  • Indonesian: “Prefektur Otonomi Tibet Yushu”
  • Italian: “prefettura autonoma tibetana di Yushu”
  • Italian: “Prefettura autonoma tibetana di Yushu”
  • Japanese: “玉樹チベット族自治州”
  • Korean: “위수 티베트족 자치주”
  • Malay: “Wilayah Autonomi Tibet Yushu”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Ngṳ̆k-sê̤ṳ”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Nguŏk-chéu”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Gio̍k-sū Chōng-cho̍k Chū-tī-chiu”
  • Mongolian: “Юйшү тойрог”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Yushu”
  • Norwegian: “Yushu”
  • Persian: “ولایت خودمختار یوشو تبتی”
  • Polish: “Yushu”
  • Russian: “Юйшу-Тибетский автономный округ”
  • Slovak: “Jü-šu”
  • Slovenian: “Tibetanska avtonomna prefektura Jušu”
  • Spanish: “Prefectura autónoma tibetana de Yushu”
  • Swedish: “Yushu”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดปกครองตนเองชนชาติทิเบต ยฺวี่ชู่”
  • Tibetan: “ཡུལ་ཤུལ་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ།”
  • Turkish: “Yushu Tibet Özerk İli”
  • Turkish: “Yushu”
  • Ukrainian: “Юйшу-Тибетська автономна префектура”
  • Urdu: “یشو تبتن خودمختار پرفکترے”
  • Urdu: “یوشو تبتی خود مختار پریفیکچر”
  • Vietnamese: “Ngọc Thụ”
  • Wu Chinese: “玉树藏族自治州”
  • Yue Chinese: “玉樹州”
  • Yue Chinese: “青海玉樹”

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