Henan Mongol Autonomous County
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Henan Mongol Autonomous County is an
autonomous county Autonomous counties () and autonomous banners () are county-level autonomous administrative divisions of China. The two are essentially identical except in name. There are 117 autonomous counties and three autonomous banners. The latter are ...
in the south of
Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (; ) is an autonomous prefecture of Eastern Qinghai, China, bordering Gansu to the east. The prefecture has area of and its seat is in Tongren County. Demographics According to the 2000 census, Huangnan ...
in the province 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 ...
, 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 south and east. Its administrative seat ("capital") is the town of Yêgainnyin (Youganning). Henan has an
area Area is the quantity that expresses the extent of a region on the plane or on a curved surface. The area of a plane region or ''plane area'' refers to the area of a shape or planar lamina, while '' surface area'' refers to the area of an ope ...
of and approximately 30,000 inhabitants (2004). The
Mongols The Mongols ( mn, Монголчууд, , , ; ; russian: Монголы) are an East Asian ethnic group native to Mongolia, Inner Mongolia in China and the Buryatia Republic of the Russian Federation. The Mongols are the principal membe ...
or
Upper Mongols The Upper Mongols ( Mongolian: Дээд монгол, ''Deed mongol'', Mongolian script: ), also known as the Köke Nuur Mongols ( Mongolian: Хөх нуурын Монгол, Mongolian script: , "Blue lake Mongol") or Qinghai Mongols ( Chinese: ...
( Sogwo Arig), the overwhelming majority of the inhabitants of the county, do not speak Mongolian (with relatively few exceptions) and speak primarily Putonghua Chinese and
Tibetan Tibetan may mean: * of, from, or related to Tibet * Tibetan people, an ethnic group * Tibetan language: ** Classical Tibetan, the classical language used also as a contemporary written standard ** Standard Tibetan, the most widely used spoken dial ...
.


Ethnic groups in Henan, 2000 census


Climate


See also

*
List of administrative divisions of Qinghai 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 Peopl ...


References

Mongol autonomous counties County-level divisions of Qinghai Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture {{Qinghai-geo-stub