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 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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