Guide County
Guide County
贵德县 • ཁྲི་ཀ་རྫོང་། | |
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Guide County (light red) within Hainan Prefecture (yellow) and Qinghai | |
| Coordinates: 35°59′20″N 101°28′16″E / 35.989°N 101.471°E | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Qinghai |
| Autonomous prefecture | Hainan |
| County seat | Qusib (Heyin) |
| Area | |
• Total | 3,504 km2 (1,353 sq mi) |
| Highest elevation | 5,011 m (16,440 ft) |
| Lowest elevation | 2,710 m (8,890 ft) |
| Population (2020) | |
• Total | 105,645 |
| • Density | 30/km2 (78/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Website | www |
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| Simplified Chinese | 贵德县 | ||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 貴德縣 | ||||||||||
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| Tibetan | ཁྲི་ཀ་རྫོང་། | ||||||||||
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Guide County (Chinese: 贵德县, Tibetan: ཁྲི་ཀ་རྫོང་།) is a county in the east of Qinghai Province, China. It is under the administration of Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. In Tibetan it is known as Trika. In 2015 it had a population of 108,800, of which 37.8% Tibetans, and 16.1% other ethnic minorities. In 2018 the population was 110,900.
It is located along the Yellow River, surrounded by hilly terrain on either side of the river valley.
Guide was first established during the Yuan dynasty. The area became part of Ming Dynasty China in 1370. In 1953 it was placed under jurisdiction of Hainan prefecture.