Golog (Golok or Guoluo) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (; ) is an

autonomous prefecture Autonomous prefectures () are one type of autonomous administrative divisions of China, existing at the prefectural level, with either ethnic minorities forming over 50% of the population or being the historic home of significant minorities. A ...

occupying the southeastern corner of

Qinghai Qinghai (; alternately romanized as Tsinghai, Ch'inghai), also known as Kokonor, is a landlocked province in the northwest of the People's Republic of China. It is the fourth largest province of China by area and has the third smallest po ...

province, People's Republic of China. The prefecture has an

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of and its

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is located in

Maqên County Maqên or Maqin County is a county of Qinghai Province, China. It is under the administration of Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. Name The county is named for Anyê Maqên, the Tibetan name for a revered local mountain. Administrative div ...

. Due to its special geographical location and natural environment, the entire autonomous preference has been included in the Chinese largest natural environmental protection area — the Sanjiangyuan National Park.

Geography

Golog Golog (Golok or Guoluo) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (; ) is an autonomous prefecture occupying the southeastern corner of Qinghai province, People's Republic of China. The prefecture has an area of and its seat is located in Maqên County. D ...

Prefecture is located in the southeastern part of

, in the upper basin of the

Yellow River The Yellow River or Huang He (Chinese: , Standard Beijing Mandarin, Mandarin: ''Huáng hé'' ) is the second-longest river in China, after the Yangtze River, and the List of rivers by length, sixth-longest river system in the world at th ...

Gyaring Lake Gyaring Lake () or Zhaling Lake () is a large freshwater lake in the Yellow River catchment in China, it is in the southeast of Qinghai Province, on the border between Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture and Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. Th ...

and Ngoring Lake on the western edge of the prefecture are considered to be the source of the

. However, these lakes do receive water from rivers that flow from locations even further west, in Qumarleb County of the

Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (, , retranscribed into Tibetan as ), also transliterated as Yüxü or Yulshul, is an autonomous prefecture Autonomous prefectures () are one type of autonomous administrative divisions of China, existing ...

. The lay of the land of the prefecture is largely determined by the

Amne Machin Amne Machin, Anyi Machen, or Anyê Maqên ("Grandfather Pomra") is the highest peak of a mountain range of the same name in the southeast of Qinghai province, China. It is revered in Tibetan Buddhism as the home of the chief indigenous deity of ...

mountain range (max elevation 6,282 m), which runs in the general northwest- to-southeast direction across the entire prefecture, and beyond. The existence of the ridge results in one of the great bends of the

, which first flows for several hundreds of kilometers toward the east and southeast along through the entire Golog Prefecture, along the southern side of the Amne Machin Range, until it reaches the borders of Gansu and Sichuan; it and then turns almost 180 degrees and flows toward the northwest for through several prefectures of the northeastern Qinghai, forming a section of the northeastern border of the Golog prefecture. Several sections of the Sanjiangyuan ("Sources of Three Rivers") National Nature Reserve are within the prefecture.

Climate

Demographics

According to the 2000

census A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating information about the members of a given population. This term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses incl ...

, Guoluo has 137,940 inhabitants with a population density of 1.81 inhabitants/km².

Ethnic groups in Guoluo, 2000 census

Subdivisions

The prefecture is subdivided into six county-level divisions: six

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Transport

Construction for

Golog Maqin Airport Golog (or Guoluo) Maqin Airport is an airport serving Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in southeastern Qinghai Province, China. It is located in Caozichang () on the Dawutan Grassland (). Construction began on 14 September 2012 with an esti ...

began in September 2012 and the airport opened on 1 July 2016. of new roads are expected to be built by 2015.

References

External links

Guoluo Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
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