Which province does Qinghai belong to?

Qinghai is Qinghai Province (a provincial administrative region of China people).

Qinghai, located in the west of China, is located in the northeast of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the roof of the world. It is one of the important provinces on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in China, referred to as Qinghai for short, and its capital is Xining. According to the second national land survey bulletin, Qinghai Province is about 1.200 km long from east to west and 800 km wide from north to south, covering an area of 7265438+ 10,000 square kilometers.

The territory is high in mountains, diverse in topography and dotted with rivers and lakes. Kunlun Mountain runs through the middle, Tanggula Mountain stands in the south, Qilian Mountain stands in the north, the vast grassland is rolling, and the Qaidam Basin is endless. The source of the Yangtze River and the Yellow River is in Qinghai, and the largest inland plateau saltwater lake in China is also in Qinghai, hence the name "Qinghai".

Qinghai borders Gansu, Sichuan, Tibet and Xinjiang, and has jurisdiction over two prefecture-level cities, namely Xining and Haidong, and six ethnic autonomous prefectures, including Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Haixi Prefecture, Haibei Prefecture, Hainan Prefecture, Huangnan Prefecture and Guoluo Prefecture, and 48 county-level administrative units. There are 43 ethnic minorities in Qinghai Province, such as Tibetan, Hui, Mongolian, Tu and Salar, with a permanent population of 5,934,600 (20 16).

Qinghai has the reputation of "the roof of the world". The eastern part of Qinghai is known as "the key to the Tianhe River", "the throat at sea", "the golden city barrier", "the crossroads of the western regions" and "the jade throat". It is the birthplace of the Yangtze River, the Yellow River and the Lancang River, and is known as the "Three Rivers Source" and "China Water Tower". Qinghai Province is located in the northeast of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and the general topographic trend of Qinghai is a plateau with alternating basins and valleys. It is a part of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the "roof of the world".