Xunhua Salar Autonomous County
Xunhua Salar Autonomous County | |
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| Name transcription(s) | |
| • Chinese | 循化撒拉族自治县 |
| • Salar | Gökdeñiz Velayat Yisır Salır Özbaşdak Yurt |
| • Tibetan | ཞུན་ཧྭ་ས་ལར་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་རྫོང་། |
Xunhua County (pink) within Haidong City (yellow) and Qinghai | |
| Coordinates (Xunhua government): 35°51′04″N 102°29′21″E / 35.8512°N 102.4891°E | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Qinghai |
| Prefecture-level city | Haidong |
| County seat | Jishi |
| Area | |
• Total | 2,100 km2 (800 sq mi) |
| Population (2021) | |
• Total | 161,600 |
| • Density | 77/km2 (200/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Postal code | 811100 |
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| Xunhua Salar Autonomous County | |||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 循化撒拉族自治縣 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 循化撒拉族自治縣 | ||||||
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| Tibetan name | |||||||
| Tibetan | ཞུན་ཧྭ་ས་ལར་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་རྫོང་། | ||||||
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| Salar | Göxdeñiz Velayat Yisır Salır Özbaşdak Yurt | ||||||
Xunhua Salar Autonomous County is an autonomous county in the southeast of Haidong Prefecture, in Qinghai province, China. The autonomous county has an area of around 2,100 square kilometres (810 sq mi), and a population of approximately 161,600 inhabitants per a 2022 government publication. In the east it borders the province of Gansu and in the south and the west Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. Its postal code is 811100 and its capital is the town of Jishi.
Xunhua County is the only autonomous county where the Salar are the sole titular minority. Salar language is an official language in Xunhua, as well as in Jishishan Bonan, Dongxiang and Salar Autonomous County.
As of April 2009, Xunhua is also the site of a mosque containing the oldest hand-written copy of the Quran in China, believed to have been written sometime between the 8th and 13th centuries.