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Qinghai

Qinghai is a province in . It is located south of the Republic of , east of , and north of . It is one of China's least populous and least densely populated provinces with under six million people in an area somewhat larger than France.
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is the capital of Qinghai Province and the capital of City District, a prefecture of Qinghai. It stands on the elevation of 2,270 m and has a population of around 2.5 million.

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Qinghai Lake is the largest lake in . Located in an endorheic basin in Qinghai Province, to which it gave its name, Qinghai Lake is classified as an alkaline salt lake.

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is a county-level city in the of Qinghai Province, China. It is now the second-largest city in Qinghai and the third largest on the Tibetan Plateau. The population in 2020 was 221,863.

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, also Romanized as Yüxü, is a county-level city of in Southern Qinghai Province, China. It comprises a surface area of 13,462 square kilometres.

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is small monastic town in Qinghai Province, . has a slightly unkempt but not unfriendly Tibetan character, intermingled with the sizable Hui population.

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is a town and county in Yushu, in the southernmost part of Qinghai Province, southeast of Yushu Prefecture.

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District is a district of the city of , Qinghai province, China. Nearby are Ping'an District and the city of . used to be named Nianbo county before 1929.

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is in Qinghai. It can be used as a base for exploring the supposed source of the Yellow River.

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District is a district of , Qinghai Province, . It is located about 80 km east of and about 10 km southwest of downtown .

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County is a county in the east of Qinghai Province, China. It is under the administration of . In Tibetan it is known as Trika.

or Huatugouzhen is a town in , , Qinghai, . As of 2023, the population is 28,965, most of which are ethnic Han Chinese. is served by the nearby Airport.
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Qinghai

Latitude of center
36° north
Longitude of center
96° east
Population
5,920,000
Elevation
3,826 metres (12,552 feet)
Abbreviation
“青”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 244081488
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
1280239
Wiki­data ID
Q45833
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zhuang—“Qinghai” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Propinsi Qinghai”
  • Achinese: “Qinghai”
  • Afrikaans: “Qinghai”
  • Arabic: “تشينغهاي”
  • Armenian: “Ցինհայ”
  • Asturian: “Qinghai”
  • Balinese: “Qinghai”
  • Bashkir: “Цинхай”
  • Basque: “Qinghai”
  • Belarusian: “правінцыя Цінхай”
  • Belarusian: “Правінцыя Цынхай”
  • Belarusian: “Цінхай (правінцыя)”
  • Belarusian: “Цінхай”
  • Belarusian: “Цынхай”
  • Bengali: “ছিংহাই”
  • Breton: “Qinghai”
  • Bulgarian: “Цинхай”
  • Bulgarian: “Чингхай”
  • Catalan: “Qinghai”
  • Cebuano: “Qinghai Sheng”
  • Chechen: “Цинхай”
  • Chinese: “Chheng-hái-séng”
  • Chinese: “Qīnghǎi Shěng”
  • Chinese: “青”
  • Chinese: “青海”
  • Chinese: “青海省”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Çinghay”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Çiñhay”
  • Croatian: “Qinghai”
  • Czech: “Čching-chaj”
  • Danish: “Qinghai”
  • Dutch: “Koko Nor”
  • Dutch: “Qinghai”
  • Dutch: “Tj’ing-hai”
  • Dutch: “Xinghai”
  • Esperanto: “Ĉinghaj”
  • Esperanto: “Ĉinghajo”
  • Esperanto: “Qinghai”
  • Estonian: “Qinghai provints”
  • Estonian: “Qinghai”
  • Finnish: “Qinghai”
  • French: “Province de Qinghai”
  • French: “Qinghai”
  • French: “Qīnghǎi”
  • French: “Tching Hai”
  • French: “Tsinghai”
  • French: “Tsinghaï”
  • Galician: “Qinghai”
  • Gan Chinese: “青海”
  • Gan Chinese: “青海省”
  • Georgian: “ცინხაი”
  • German: “Ch’ing-hai”
  • German: “CN-63”
  • German: “Kuku-nor”
  • German: “Kukunor”
  • German: “Qinghai”
  • German: “Qinghay”
  • German: “Tsinghai”
  • Greek: “Τσινγκχάι”
  • Gujarati: “ક્વિઘાઈ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Chhiâng-hói”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Tshiâng-hói-sén”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Tshiâng-hói”
  • Hebrew: “צ’ינגהאי”
  • Hebrew: “צ’ינגחאי”
  • Hindi: “किंघाई”
  • Hindi: “चिंग हई”
  • Hindi: “चिंग है”
  • Hindi: “चिंग-है”
  • Hindi: “चिंगहई प्रांत”
  • Hindi: “चिंगहई प्रान्त”
  • Hindi: “चिंगहई”
  • Hindi: “चिंग्हाइ”
  • Hungarian: “Csinghaj”
  • Hungarian: “Qinghai”
  • Hungarian: “Qinghaj”
  • Icelandic: “Qinghai”
  • Ido: “Provinco Qinghai”
  • Indonesian: “Qinghai”
  • Interlingua: “Qinghai”
  • Irish: “Qinghai”
  • Italian: “Koko Nor”
  • Italian: “Qinghai”
  • Italian: “Quinghai”
  • Japanese: “青海省 (中華人民共和国)”
  • Japanese: “青海省”
  • Kannada: “ಕ್ವಿಂಗ್ಹೈ”
  • Kongo: “Qinghai”
  • Korean: “청해성”
  • Korean: “칭하이 성”
  • Korean: “칭하이”
  • Korean: “칭하이성”
  • Kurdish: “Qinghai”
  • Latin: “Qingha”
  • Latin: “Qinghai”
  • Latvian: “Cjinhai province”
  • Latvian: “Cjinhai”
  • Latvian: “Qinghai Sheng”
  • Latvian: “Qinghai”
  • Literary Chinese: “青海省”
  • Lithuanian: “Činghai”
  • Lithuanian: “Činghajus”
  • Lombard: “Qinghai”
  • Macedonian: “Ќингхај”
  • Macedonian: “Коконур”
  • Macedonian: “Кукунор”
  • Malagasy: “Qinghai”
  • Malay: “Qinghai”
  • Malay: “Wilayah Qinghai”
  • Manchu: “ᡥᡠᡥᡠ ᠨᠣᠣᡵ”
  • Manipuri: “ꯀꯤꯡꯍꯥꯢ”
  • Manx: “Qinghai”
  • Marathi: “छिंगहाय”
  • Marathi: “छिंघाय”
  • Mazanderani: “چینگهای”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Chĭng-hāi”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Chheng-hái-séng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Chheng-hái”
  • Mingrelian: “ცინხაი”
  • Mongolian: “Хөхнуур муж”
  • Mongolian: “Хөхнуур”
  • Mongolian: “ᠬᠥᠬᠡ ᠨᠠᠭᠤᠷ”
  • Nepali: “छिङहाई”
  • Northern Frisian: “Qinghai”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ch’inghai”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Chinghai”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Qinghai provinsen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Qinghai”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Qinghaiprovinsen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tsinghai”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Qinghai”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tsinghai”
  • Norwegian: “Qinghai”
  • Novial: “Qinghai”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Qinghai”
  • Ossetian: “Цинхай”
  • Pampanga: “Qinghai”
  • Persian: “چینگهای”
  • Persian: “چینگ‌های”
  • Persian: “کینگ‌های”
  • Polish: “Cinghaj”
  • Polish: “Qinghai”
  • Polish: “Tsinghai”
  • Portuguese: “Chingai”
  • Portuguese: “província de Qinghai”
  • Portuguese: “Qinghai”
  • Quechua: “Qinghai pruwinsya”
  • Romanian: “Qinghai”
  • Russian: “Qinghai”
  • Russian: “Цинхай”
  • Scots: “Qinghai”
  • Serbian: “Ћингхаи”
  • Serbian: “Ћингхај”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Qinghai”
  • Sicilian: “Qinghai”
  • Sindhi: “چنگھائي صوبو”
  • Sinhala: “කින්ග්හයි”
  • Slovenian: “Činghaj”
  • Spanish: “Qinghai”
  • Swahili: “Qinghai”
  • Swedish: “Qinghai”
  • Tagalog: “Qinghai”
  • Tagalog: “Qinghao”
  • Tajik: “Қингҳай”
  • Tamil: “கிங்ஹாய் மாகாணம்”
  • Tatar: “Чиңхәй”
  • Telugu: “ఖింగాయ్”
  • Thai: “ชิงไห่”
  • Thai: “มณฑลชิงไห่”
  • Tibetan: “མཚོ་སྔོན་”
  • Tibetan: “མཚོ་སྔོན་ཞིང་ཆེན་”
  • Tibetan: “མཚོ་སྔོན་ཞིང་ཆེན།”
  • Tibetan: “མཚོ་སྔོན།”
  • Turkish: “Çinghay”
  • Turkish: “Qinghai”
  • Uighur: “Chingxey Ölkisi”
  • Uighur: “Chingxey”
  • Uighur: “چىڭخەي ئۆلكىسى”
  • Uighur: “چىنخەي”
  • Uighur: “كۆكنۇر”
  • Ukrainian: “Цинхай”
  • Ukrainian: “Цінхай”
  • Urdu: “چنگھائی”
  • Uzbek: “Sinxay”
  • Venetian: “Qinghai”
  • Vietnamese: “Qinghai”
  • Vietnamese: “Thanh Hải, Trung Quốc”
  • Vietnamese: “Thanh Hải”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Qinghai”
  • Welsh: “Qinghai”
  • Western Armenian: “Քինկհայ”
  • Western Panjabi: “صوبہ چنگھائی”
  • Wu Chinese: “青海省”
  • Yakut: “Сынтай”
  • Yakut: “Цинхай”
  • Yue Chinese: “青海”
  • Zhuang: “Cinhhaij”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Qinghai”. Photo: Hshook, CC BY-SA 4.0.