Qinghai, a province of the People's Republic of China, is made up of the following administrative divisions.

Administrative divisions All of these administrative divisions are explained in greater detail at Administrative divisions of the People's Republic of China. This chart lists all prefecture-level and county-level divisions of Qinghai. Prefecture levelCounty LevelNameChineseHanyu PinyinDivision code Xining city (Capital)(6301 / XNN) Chengdong District 630102 CDQ Chengzhong District 630103 CZQ Chengxi District 630104 CXQ Chengbei District 630105 CBE Huangzhong District 630106 Datong County 630121 DAT Huangyuan County 630123 HYU Haidong city(6302 / HDI) Ledu District 630202 LDA Ping'an District 630203 PIA Minhe County 630222 MHE Huzhu County 630223 HZT Hualong County 630224 HLO Xunhua County 630225 XUH Haibei Prefecture(6322 / HBZ) Menyuan County 632221 MYU Qilian County 632222 QLN Haiyan County 632223 HIY Gangcha County 632224 GAN Huangnan Prefecture(6323 / HNZ) Tongren city 632301 Jianzha County 632322 JAI Zeku County 632323 ZEK Henan County 632324 HNM Hainan Prefecture(6325 / HNN) Gonghe County 632521 GHE Tongde County 632522 TDX Guide County 632523 GID Xinghai County 632524 XHA Guinan County 632525 GNN Guoluo Prefecture(6326 / GOL) Maqin County 632621 MAQ Baima County 632622 BMX Gande County 632623 GAD Dari County 632624 TAR Jiuzhi County 632625 JUZ Maduo County 632626 MAD Yushu Prefecture(6327 / YSZ) Yushu city 632701 YSC Zaduo County 632722 ZAD Chengduo County 632723 CHI Zhiduo County 632724 ZHI Nangqian County 632725 NQN Qumalai County 632726 QUM Haixi Prefecture(6328 / HXZ) Ge'ermu city 632801 GOS Delingha city 632802 DEL Mangya city 632803 Wulan County 632821 ULA Dulan County 632822 DUL Tianjun County 632823 TJN Dachaidan Administrative Zone 大柴旦行政区 Dàcháidàn Xíngzhèngqū 632857

Administrative divisions history

Recent changes in administrative divisions Date Before After Note Reference 1980-01-09 Haidong Prefecture Xining (PL-City) transferred ↳ Huangzhong County ↳ Jiao District, Xining transferred & established 1983-01-18 all Province-controlled city (P-City) → Prefecture-level city (PL-City) Civil Affairs Announcement all Prefecture-controlled city (PC-City) → County-level city (CL-City) 1984-05-01 Haixi Prefecture (Aut.)prefectural-controlled Mangya AZ established 1985-??-?? provincial-controlled Huangnan Prefecture (Aut.) transferred ↳ Henan County (Aut.) ↳ Henan County (Aut.) transferred 1985-04-24 Haixi Prefecture (Aut.) Haixi Prefecture (Aut.) removed Kazakh Aut. 1985-11-06 Minhe County Minhe County (Aut.) reorganized Datong County Datong County (Aut.) reorganized 1986-03-05 Chengxi District Chengbei District established Jiao District, Xining merged into Chengdong District merged into Chengzhong District merged into Chengxi District merged into 1988-04-19 Wulan County Delingha (CL-City) established Mangya AZ merged 1989-??-?? provincial-controlled Haibei Prefecture (Aut.) transferred ↳ Kuang District Office ↳ Haiyan County merged into 1992-??-?? Mangya AZ Dachaidan AZ established Lenghu AZ established 1999-12-05 Haidong Prefecture Xining (PL-City) transferred State Council 142 ↳ Huangzhong County ↳ Huangzhong County transferred ↳ Huangyuan County ↳ Huangyuan County transferred 2013-02-08 Haidong Prefecture Haidong (PL-City) reorganized State Council 23 Ledu County Ledu District reorganized 2013-07-03 Yushu County Yushu (CL-City) reorganized Civil Affairs 219 2015-02-16 Ping'an County Ping'an District reorganized State Council 38 2018-02-22 Mangya AZ Mangya (CL-City) reorganized Civil Affairs 48 Lenghu AZ merged 2019-11-06 Huangzhong County Huangzhong District reorganized State Council 106 2020-07-?? Tongren County Tongren (CL-City) reorganized

Population composition

Prefectures Prefecture 2010 2000Haixi489,338369,136Haibei273,304276,723Xining2,208,7081,979,200Haidong1,396,8461,520,074Hainan441,689401,743Huangnan256,716225,462Yushu378,439268,825Guoluo181,682140,397

Counties NamePrefecture2010 Chengdong Xining 359,688 Chengzhong Xining 296,987 Chengxi Xining 242,627 Chengbei Xining 299,002 Huangyuan Xining 437,835 Huangzhong Xining 136,632 Datong Xining 435,937 Ledu Haidong 260,185 Ping'an Haidong 102,975 Minhe Haidong 350,118 Huzhu Haidong 356,437 Hualong Haidong 203,317 Xunhua Haidong 123,814 Qilian Haibei 13,789 Haiyan Haibei 11,497 Gangcha Haibei 11,473 Menyuan Haibei 37,595 Gonghe Hainan 122,966 Tongde Hainan 64,367 Guide Hainan 101,771 Xinghai Hainan 76,025 Guinan Hainan 76,560 Ge'ermu Haixi 215,213 Delingha Haixi 78,184 Wulan Haixi 38,273 Dulan Haixi 76,623 Tianjun Haixi 33,923 Mangya Haixi 31,017 Dachaidan Haixi 13,671 Lenghu Haixi 2,434 Tongren Huangnan 92,601 Jianzha Huangnan 55,325 Zeku Huangnan 69,416 Henan Huangnan 39,374 Maqin Golog 51,245 Baima Golog 27,185 Gande Golog 34,840 Dari Golog 30,995 Jiuzhi Golog 26,081 Maduo Golog 11,336 Yushu Yushu 120,447 Zaduo Yushu 58,268 Chengduo Yushu 55,619 Zhiduo Yushu 30,037 Nangqian Yushu 85,825 Qumalai Yushu 28,243

Drafted and proposed cities Qinghai is planning to re-organise the following administrative divisions:

County-level cities Gonghe ← Gonghe County Guide ← Guide County Haiyan ← Haiyan County Qaidam () ← Da Qaidam and Delingha Maqin ← Maqin County

See also

List of township-level divisions of Qinghai, for towns and townships

References