Xunhua Salar Autonomous County

Xunhua Salar Autonomous County
Xunhua Salar Autonomous County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	循化撒拉族自治縣
Traditional Chinese	循化撒拉族自治縣
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Xúnhuà Sǎlázú Zìzhìxiàn
Tibetan name
Tibetan	ཞུན་ཧྭ་ས་ལར་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་རྫོང་།
Wylie
Transcriptions
Wylie	zhun hwa sa lar rigs rang skyong rdzong
Salar name
Salar	Gökhdengiz Velayat Yisyr Salyr Özbashdak Yurt

Xunhua Salar Autonomous County
Xunhua Salar Autonomous County
Autonomous county
Name transcription(s)
• Chinese	循化撒拉族自治县
• Salar	Gökhdengiz Velayat Yisyr Salyr Özbashdak Yurt
• Tibetan	ཞུན་ཧྭ་ས་ལར་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་རྫོང་།
	Xunhua County (pink) within Haidong City (yellow) and Qinghai
	Coordinates (Xunhua government): 35°51′04″N 102°29′21″E / 35.8512°N 102.4891°E
Country	China
Province	Qinghai
Prefecture-level city	Haidong
County seat	Jishi
Area
• Total	2,100 km2 (800 sq mi)
Population (2021)
• Total	161,600
• Density	77/km2 (200/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Postal code	811100

Xunhua Salar Autonomous County^[a] is an autonomous county in the southeast of Haidong Prefecture, in Qinghai province, China.^[1] The autonomous county has an area of around 2,100 square kilometres (810 sq mi), and a population of approximately 161,600 inhabitants per a 2022 government publication.^[2] In the east it borders the province of Gansu and in the south and the west Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. Its postal code is 811100 and its capital is the town of Jishi [zh].

Xunhua County is the only autonomous county where the Salar are the sole titular minority.^[2] Salar language is an official language in Xunhua, as well as in Jishishan Bonan, Dongxiang and Salar Autonomous County.^[3]

As of April 2009, Xunhua is also the site of a mosque containing the oldest hand-written copy of the Quran in China, believed to have been written sometime between the 8th and 13th centuries.^[4]

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^ 青海海东民族团结故事：黄河两岸兄弟情_循化县. Sohu 搜狐 (in Chinese). 2020-06-21. Retrieved 2021-02-23.
^ ^a ^b 循化县情概况 [Xunhua County Overview]. xunhua.gov.cn (in Chinese). Xunhua Salar Autonomous County People's Government. 2022-02-28. Archived from the original on 2022-04-23. Retrieved 2022-10-10.
^ Martí, Fèlix; Ortega, Paul; Idiazabal, Itziar; Barreña, Antoni; Juaristi, Patxi; Junyent, Carme; Uranga, Belen; Amorrortu, Estibaliz (2005). Words and Worlds: World Languages Review (illustrated ed.). Clevedon: Multilingual Matters. p. 123. ISBN 1-85359-827-5.
^ "China's Oldest Handwritten Copy of the Koran to Open to Public". Xinhua. 2009-04-09. Archived from the original on March 25, 2010.

[2] 青海海东民族团结故事：黄河两岸兄弟情_循化县. Sohu 搜狐 (in Chinese). 2020-06-21. Retrieved 2021-02-23.

[:0-3] 循化县情概况 [Xunhua County Overview]. xunhua.gov.cn (in Chinese). Xunhua Salar Autonomous County People's Government. 2022-02-28. Archived from the original on 2022-04-23. Retrieved 2022-10-10.

[4] Martí, Fèlix; Ortega, Paul; Idiazabal, Itziar; Barreña, Antoni; Juaristi, Patxi; Junyent, Carme; Uranga, Belen; Amorrortu, Estibaliz (2005). Words and Worlds: World Languages Review (illustrated ed.). Clevedon: Multilingual Matters. p. 123. ISBN 1-85359-827-5.

[5] "China's Oldest Handwritten Copy of the Koran to Open to Public". Xinhua. 2009-04-09. Archived from the original on March 25, 2010.

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