Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture

Linxia Prefecture 临夏州 · لٍ‌ثِيَا جِوْ‎
Autonomous prefecture
Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture 临夏回族自治州 لٍ‌ثِيَا خُوِزُوْ زِجِ‌جِوْ‎
Fields and gardens in the Valley of Daxia River. The river flows to the north (to the left in the picture), into Liujiaxia Reservoir, separating Linxia County (foreground) from Dongxiang Autonomous County (background)
Location of Linxia Prefecture within Gansu
Coordinates (Linxia Prefecture government): 35°36′06″N 103°12′37″E / 35.6018°N 103.2104°E / 35.6018; 103.2104
Country	People's Republic of China
Province	Gansu
Seat	Linxia City
Area
• Total	8,169 km2 (3,154 sq mi)
Population  (2020)Census Nov 2020
• Total	2,437,000
GDP[1]
• Total	CN¥ 21.1 billion US$ 3.4 billion
• Per capita	CN¥ 10,527 US$ 1,690
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
ISO 3166 code	CN-GS-29
Website	www.linxia.gov.cn

Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture (simplified Chinese: 临夏回族自治州; traditional Chinese: 臨夏回族自治州; pinyin: Línxià Huízú Zìzhìzhōu, Xiao'erjing: لٍ‌ثِيَا خُوِزُوْ زِجِ‌جِوْ‎), formerly known as Hezhou (河州) and Baohan (枹罕), is located in Gansu Province, south of the provincial capital Lanzhou, bordering Qinghai to the west. It is an autonomous prefecture for the Muslim Hui people, a large Chinese ethnic group. It also includes two autonomous counties for other Muslim groups, namely Bonan, Dongxiang and Salar.