Guanghe County (,
Xiao'erjing
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: ) is a
county
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in the
Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture
Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture (, Xiao'erjing: ), formerly known as Hezhou (河州) and Baohan (枹罕), is located in Gansu Province, south of the provincial capital Lanzhou, bordering Qinghai to the west. It is an autonomous prefecture for the ...
, located in the province of
Gansu
Gansu (, ; alternately romanized as Kansu) is a province in Northwest China. Its capital and largest city is Lanzhou, in the southeast part of the province.
The seventh-largest administrative district by area at , Gansu lies between the Tibet ...
of the
People's Republic of China
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. It contains an ethnic minority of the
Dongxiang.
Administrative divisions
Guanghe County is divided to 6 towns 2 townships and 1 ethnic township.
;Towns
;Townships
* Shuiquan Township()
* Guanfang Township()
;1 Ethnic township
* Alimatu Dongxiang Township()
Climate
Sources
County-level divisions of Gansu
Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture
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