Guanting
Guanting is a town in eastern Qinghai province, China. It is located in the southeast of Minhe County and, together with Guanting, Zhongchuan, Xiakou, Gangou and Xin'er townships, is referred to as the Guanting Area.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 15,800 residents
- Description: town in Minhe, Haidong, Qinghai, China
- Also known as: “Guanting Zhen”, “Guanting, Minhe County”, “Kuan-t’ing”, and “官亭”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lajia.
Lajia
Archaeological site
Photo: Notirt, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Lajia is a Bronze Age archaeological site in the upper reaches of the Yellow River, on the border between the Chinese provinces of Gansu and Qinghai. As at other sites of the Qijia culture, the people of Lajia had an agricultural economy based primarily on millet cultivation and sheep herding.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dahejia and Xing’er Township.
Dahejia
Town
Dahejia Town is a town under Jishishan County, in Linxia, Gansu. It is located on the south bank of the Yellow River, bordering Qinghai province on what can be considered the boundary between the Loess Plateau and the Tibetan Plateau. Dahejia is situated 6 km southwest of Guanting.
Xing’er Township
Town
Xing'ar Tibetan Township or Xing'er Township, is an ethnic township in Minhe Hui and Tu Autonomous County, Haidong, Qinghai, China. In 2010, Xing'ar Township had a total population of 4,088: 2,074 males and 2,074 females: 1,057 aged under 14, 2,782 aged between 15 and 65 and 249 aged over 65. Xing’er Township is situated 8 km west of Guanting.
Guanting
- Categories: town of China and locality
- Location: Haidong Diqu, Qinghai, Northwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
35.87454° or 35° 52′ 28″ northLongitude
102.79915° or 102° 47′ 57″ eastPopulation
15,800Elevation
1,841 metres (6,040 feet)Open location code
8P74VQFX+RMOpenStreetMap ID
node 1195112052OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
1809750Wikidata ID
Q5613831
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Wu Chinese—“Guanting” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Guanting, Minhe County”
- Cebuano: “Guanting (kapital sa baranggay sa Republikang Popular sa Tsina, Qinghai Sheng, lat 35,88, long 102,80)”
- Cebuano: “Guanting”
- Chinese: “官亭镇 (民和回族土族自治县)”
- Chinese: “官亭镇”
- Gan Chinese: “官亭镇”
- Japanese: “官亭鎮”
- Swedish: “Guanting”
- Vietnamese: “Đại Danh”
- Wu Chinese: “官亭镇”
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