Menyuan Hui Autonomous County ( zh, s=门源回族自治县, t=門源回族自治縣, p=Ményuán Huízú Zìzhìxiàn,

Xiao'erjing Xiao'erjing or Xiao'erjin or Xiaor jin or in its shortened form, Xiaojing, literally meaning "children's script" or "minor script" (cf. "original script" referring to the original Perso-Arabic script; zh, s=本经, t=本經, p=Běnjīng, Xiao ...

: ; bo, སེམས་ཉིད་ཧུའེ་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཞན།) is a county in the northeast 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

Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (; , , Tib.pin.: ''cojang poirig ranggyong kü'') is an autonomous prefecture of northeastern Qinghai Province, China. The prefecture has an area of and its seat is Haiyan County. Its name literally means " ...

. Menyuan is situated on the

Datong River The Datong River (), known as the Julak Chu in Amdo Tibetan, is a river in China in the Yellow River basin. It has a total length of , and a basin area of . It has an average annual flow of 90.5 cubic meters per second. It was previously spelled T ...

between the

Qilian Mountains The Qilian Mountains (, also romanized as Tsilien; Mongghul: Chileb), together with the Altyn-Tagh (Altun Shan) also known as Nan Shan (, literally "Southern Mountains"), as it is to the south of Hexi Corridor, is a northern outlier of the Kunl ...

and Daban Mountains.

Gangshiqia Peak Gangshiqia Peak () is a high mountain peak in the eastern Qilian Mountains of northeastern Qinghai province. The mountain is located within Menyuan Hui Autonomous County of Haibei Prefecture, and is not far from the Gansu border. Ganshiqia is t ...

rises dramatically in the north of the county. It used to be called Menyuan () in Chinese, with a different first character from the current name.

Climate

Transportation

* Lanzhou–Xinjiang High-Speed Railway (

Menyuan railway station Menyuan Hui Autonomous County ( zh, s=门源回族自治县, t=門源回族自治縣, p=Ményuán Huízú Zìzhìxiàn, Xiao'erjing: ; bo, སེམས་ཉིད་ཧུའེ་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཞན།) is a count ...

) *

China National Highway 227 China National Highway 227 (G227) runs from Xining, Qinghai to Zhangye, Gansu. It is 347 kilometres in length and runs northwest from Xining towards Zhangye. Route and distance See also * China National Highways External linksOfficial website ...

References

County-level divisions of Qinghai Hui autonomous counties Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture {{Qinghai-geo-stub