Tianjun County is a county of
Qinghai Province
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 pop ...
, China, bordering
Gansu Province
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 Tibeta ...
to the north. It is under the administration of the
Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
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. The county seat in Xinyuan Town ().
Climate
Economy
The county is served by the
Qinghai–Tibet Railway; its
Tianjun railway station
Tianjun County is a county of Qinghai Province, China, bordering Gansu Province to the north. It is under the administration of the Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
Haixi Mongolian and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (; mn, á ¬á á ...
is located near the county seat, Xinyuan Town.
Large coalfields are worked near Muli Town () in the northern part of the county, at the elevation around 4,000 m above the sea level.
The Muli Coal Mine of Qinghai Kingho Group
/ref> The Muli coal fields are connected with the Ha'ergai railway station on the Qinghai–Tibet Railway by a long branch railway, whose two sections are known as the Chada'er Railway () and the Cha-Mu Railway ().
References
County-level divisions of Qinghai
Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
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