Haidong

For other uses, see Haedong (disambiguation).

Haidong 海东市
Prefecture-level city
A street in Ping'an District
Location of Haidong Prefecture in Qinghai
Country	People's Republic of China
Province	Qinghai
Municipal seat	Ledu District
Area
• Total	12,810 km2 (4,950 sq mi)
Population (2010 Census)
• Total	1,396,846
• Density	110/km2 (280/sq mi)
Time zone	China Standard (UTC+8)
Website	www.haidong.gov.cn (Chinese)

Haidong (Chinese: 海东; pinyin: Hǎidōng; Wylie: Haitung) is a prefecture-level city of Qinghai province in Western China. Its name literally means "east of the (Qinghai) Lake." On 8 February 2013 Haidong was upgraded from a prefecture (Chinese: 海东地区) into a prefecture-level city. Haidong is the second largest city in Qinghai after Xining.

Geography

Haidong is the easternmost division of Qinghai province. It is bounded by Xining, the provincial capital, to the West, the Datong River Valley to the north, Gansu to the east, and the Yellow River to the south. Mountain ranges tower above the district of which the main valley is the one of the Huang Shui (Tib. Tsong Chu), a major tributary of the Yellow River. This valley stretches from west to east and makes up - together with the area around Xining, the landscape which is called Tsongkha ("Onion Valley") by Tibetans. It has a total area of 13,100 square kilometres (5,100 sq mi)

Administrative divisions

Map	#	Name	Hanzi	Hanyu Pinyin	Population (2010 Census)	Area (km²)	Density (/km²)
	1	Ping'an District	平安区	Píng'ān Qū	102,975	750	137
	2	Ledu District	乐都区	Lèdū Qū	260,185	2,821	92
	3	Minhe Hui and Tu Autonomous County	民和回族 土族自治县	Mínhé Huízú Tǔzú Zìzhìxiàn	350,118	1,780	197
	4	Huzhu Tu Autonomous County	互助土族 自治县	Hùzhù Tǔzú Zìzhìxiàn	356,437	3,321	107
	5	Hualong Hui Autonomous County	化隆回族 自治县	Huàlóng Huízú Zìzhìxiàn	203,317	2,740	74
	6	Xunhua Salar Autonomous County	循化撒拉族 自治县	Xúnhuà Sǎlāzú Zìzhìxiàn	123,814	1,749	70

Demographics

As of 2005, the total population of Haidong is approximately 1,480,000. It is the most densely populated area of Qinghai, with almost a third of the province's population (its surface makes up only two percent of Qinghai).

Further reading

• A. Gruschke: The Cultural Monuments of Tibet’s Outer Provinces: Amdo - Volume 1. The Qinghai Part of Amdo, White Lotus Press, Bangkok 2001. ISBN 974-480-049-6
• Tsering Shakya: The Dragon in the Land of Snows. A History of Modern Tibet Since 1947, London 1999, ISBN 0-14-019615-3