Qinghai

Qinghai Province 青海省
Province
Name transcription(s)
• Cheenese	青海省 (Qīnghǎi Shěng)
• Abbreviation	青 (pinyin: Qīng)
Map shawin the location o Qinghai Province
Named for	Frae Khoshut Oirat Köknuur: Köke - blue Nuur - Lake "blue lake" (Qinghai Lake) In Cheenese: 青 qīng - green/blue 海 hǎi - sea "qing (blue/green/black) sea"
Caipital (an lairgest ceety)	Xining
Divisions	8 prefecturs, 43 coonties, 429 tounships
Govrenment
• Secretar	Qiang Wei
• Govrenor	Luo Huining
Area
• Total	721000 km2 (278,000 sq mi)
Area rank	4t
Population  (2010)
• Total	5,626,722
• Rank	30t
• Density	7.8/km2 (20/sq mi)
• Density rank	30t
Demographics
• Ethnic composeetion	Han - 54% Tibetan - 21% Hui - 16% Tu - 4% Salar - 1.8% Mongols - 1.8%
ISO 3166 code	CN-63
GDP (2011)	CNY 163.4 billion US$ 25.9 billion (30t)
• per capita	CNY 24,115 US$ 3,562 (22nt)
HDI (2008)	0.720 (medium) (27t)
Website	http://www.qh.gov.cn/ (Simplifeed Cheenese)

Qinghai
Chinese name
Cheenese	青海
Hanyu Pinyin	Qīnghǎi
Postal	Tsinghai ({{Audio|zh-Qinghai.ogg|Listen}})
Transcriptions Staundart Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Qīnghǎi Wade–Giles Ch'ing-hai IPA [tɕʰíŋxàɪ̯] Wu Romanieation tshin平he上 Hakka Romanisation Tshiâng-hói Yue: Cantonese Jyutping cing1hoi2 Soothren Min Hokkien POJ Chheng-hái
Tibetan name
Tibetan	མཚོ་སྔོན་
Transcriptions Wylie mtsho sngon
Mongolian name
Mongolian Cyrillic	[Köke Naγur]
Manchu name
Manchu script	Huhu Noor

Qinghai (listen ) (Cheenese: Cheenese: 青海, pronounced [tɕʰíŋxàɪ̯]); Oirat Mongolie: Көкнуур (transcribit intae Cyrillic); Tibetan: མཚོ་སྔོན་; Salar:) is a province o the Fowkrepublic o Cheenae, named efter Qinghai Lake.

Freemit airtins

• Qinghai Govrenment wabsteid Archived 2012-10-01 at the Wayback Machine
• Travel guide tae Qinghai frae Wikivoyage