Xining
Prefecture-level city in Qinghai, China / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Xining[lower-alpha 1] is the capital of Qinghai province in western China[4] and the largest city on the Tibetan Plateau.
Xining
西宁市 Sining | |
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City of Xining | |
Coordinates (Qinghai People's Government): 36°37′21″N 101°46′49″E | |
Country | China |
Province | Qinghai |
Municipal seat | Chengzhong |
Government | |
• Type | Prefecture-level city |
• Body | Xining Municipal People's Congress |
• CCP Secretary | Wang Weidong |
• Congress Chairman | Song Chenxi |
• Mayor | Shi Jianping |
• CPPCC Chairman | Duan Fada |
Area | |
• Prefecture-level city | 7,596 km2 (2,933 sq mi) |
• Urban | 2,892.7 km2 (1,116.9 sq mi) |
• Metro | 2,892.7 km2 (1,116.9 sq mi) |
Elevation | 2,275 m (7,464 ft) |
Population (2020 census)[1] | |
• Prefecture-level city | 2,467,965 |
• Density | 320/km2 (840/sq mi) |
• Urban | 1,954,795 |
• Urban density | 680/km2 (1,800/sq mi) |
• Metro | 1,954,795 |
• Metro density | 680/km2 (1,800/sq mi) |
GDP[2] | |
• Prefecture-level city | CN¥ 164.4 billion US$ 18.2 billion |
• Per capita | CN¥ 49,185 US$ 7,897 |
Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
Postal code | 810000 |
Area code | 971 |
ISO 3166 code | CN-QH-01 |
License plate prefixes | 青A |
Website | www.xining.gov.cn (in Chinese) |
Xining | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Chinese name | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 西宁 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 西寧 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Postal | Sining or Ziling | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Literal meaning | "Western tranquility" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Tibetan name | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tibetan | ཟི་ལིང | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Mongolian name | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Mongolian Cyrillic | Сэлэнг | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Mongolian script | ᠰᠢᠨᠢᠩ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The city lies in the Huangshui River Valley, also known as Tsongkha (Tibetan: ཙོང་ཁ་), and owing to its high altitude, has a cool climate on the borderline between cool semi-arid and dry winter humid continental. It was a commercial hub along the Northern Silk Road's Hexi Corridor for over 2000 years, and was a stronghold of the Han, Sui, Tang, and Song dynasties' resistance against nomadic attacks from the west. Although long a part of Gansu province, Xining was added to Qinghai in 1928. Xining holds sites of religious significance to Muslims and Buddhists, including the Dongguan Mosque and Kumbum Monastery. It is connected by the Qinghai–Tibet railway to Lhasa, Tibet and connected by a high-speed railway to Lanzhou, Gansu and Ürümqi, Xinjiang.
The city is home to Qinghai University, a comprehensive university and the only Double First-Class University in Xining.