Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture
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Autonomous prefecture in Gansu, China
Key facts
- Country
- People's Republic of China
- Province
- Gansu
- Seat
- Linxia City
- Total
- 8,169 km (3,154 sq mi)
- 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
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- autonomous prefecture
- Official name
- 临夏专区
- Country
- China
- Located in
- Gansu
- Population
- 2109750
- Area
- 8198.46
- Time zone
- UTC+08:00
- Official website
- www.linxia.gov.cn
- Image
- 5901-Linxia-County-Daxiahe-valley.jpg
- Dialing code
- 930
- Licence plate code
- 甘N
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- Commons category
- Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture
- topic's main category
- Category:Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture
- postal code
- 731100
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Linxia
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Encyclopedic overview
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 Fuhan (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.
Geography and climate
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.