Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture

Hainan Prefecture
海南州 · མཚོ་ལྷོ་ཁུལ།
海南藏族自治州 · མཚོ་ལྷོ་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ
Location of Hainan Prefecture in Qinghai
CountryPeople's Republic of China
ProvinceQinghai
Named afterSouth of Qinghai Lake
Prefecture seatGonghe County (Qabqa)
Area
44,546.21 km2 (17,199.39 sq mi)
  Water2,981.55 km2 (1,151.18 sq mi)
Highest elevation
5,305 m (17,405 ft)
Lowest elevation
2,168 m (7,113 ft)
Population
 (2020)
446,996
  Density10/km2 (26/sq mi)
  Rural
267,100
GDP
  Autonomous prefectureCN¥ 14.0 billion
US$ 2.3 billion
  Per capitaCN¥ 30,379
US$ 4,878
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
ISO 3166 codeCN-QH-25
Websitewww.hainanzhou.gov.cn
Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
Chinese name
Chinese海南藏族自治州
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinHǎinán Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu
Tibetan name
Tibetanམཚོ་ལྷོ་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ
Transcriptions
Wyliemtsho-lho bod-rigs rang-skyong-khul
Tibetan PinyinColho Poirig Ranggyong Kü

Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, formerly known as Tsolho Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (Chinese: 海南藏族自治州; Tibetan: མཚོ་ལྷོ་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་), is an autonomous prefecture of Northeastern Qinghai Province in Western China. The prefecture has an area of 45,895 square kilometres (17,720 sq mi) and its seat is located in Gonghe County. Its name literally means "south of (Qinghai) Lake."