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Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture

Index Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture

Yulshul Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, commonly known as Yushu (retranscribed into Tibetan as), is an autonomous prefecture of southwestern Qinghai province, China. [1]

60 relations: Alpine climate, Autonomous prefecture, Bon, China, China National Highway 109, China National Highway 214, Chindu County, Chinese characters, Counties of the People's Republic of China, Dalai Lama, Enclave and exclave, Endorheic basin, European Alert System, Gelug, Gross domestic product, Gyêgu, Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Han Chinese, Hoh Xil, Hui people, ISO 3166-2:CN, Kagyu, Köppen climate classification, Kham, List of ethnic groups in China and Taiwan, List of postal codes in China, Manchu people, Mekong, Mongols, Monguor people, Nangqên County, Nyingma, Pinyin, Provinces of China, Qinghai, Qinghai–Tibet railway, Qumarlêb County, Sakya, Salar people, Sanjiangyuan, Semi-arid climate, Subarctic climate, Tanggulashan, Tibet, Tibetan people, Tibetan pinyin, Time in China, Tongtian River, Tulku, United States Geological Survey, ..., Vehicle registration plates of China, Wylie transliteration, Xinhua News Agency, Yangtze, Yellow River, Yushu Batang Airport, Yushu City, Qinghai, Zadoi County, Zhidoi County, 2010 Yushu earthquake. Expand index (10 more) »

Alpine climate

Alpine climate is the average weather (climate) for the regions above the tree line.

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Autonomous prefecture

Autonomous prefectures are one type of autonomous administrative divisions of China, existing at the prefectural level, with either ethnic minorities forming over 50% of the population or being the historic home of significant minorities.

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Bon

Bon, also spelled Bön, is a Tibetan religion, which self-identifies as distinct from Tibetan Buddhism, although it shares the same overall teachings and terminology.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.

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China National Highway 109

China National Highway 109 connects Beijing with Lhasa.

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China National Highway 214

China National Highway 214 (G214) runs from Xining, Qinghai to Jinghong, Yunnan.

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Chindu County

Chindu County or Chenduo County is a county of Qinghai Province, China.

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Chinese characters

Chinese characters are logograms primarily used in the writing of Chinese and Japanese.

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Counties of the People's Republic of China

Counties, formally county-level divisions, are found in the third level of the administrative hierarchy in Provinces and Autonomous regions, and the second level in municipalities and Hainan, a level that is known as "county level" and also contains autonomous counties, county-level cities, banners, autonomous banner, and City districts.

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Dalai Lama

Dalai Lama (Standard Tibetan: ཏཱ་ལའི་བླ་མ་, Tā la'i bla ma) is a title given to spiritual leaders of the Tibetan people.

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Enclave and exclave

An enclave is a territory, or a part of a territory, that is entirely surrounded by the territory of one other state.

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Endorheic basin

An endorheic basin (also endoreic basin or endorreic basin) (from the ἔνδον, éndon, "within" and ῥεῖν, rheîn, "to flow") is a limited drainage basin that normally retains water and allows no outflow to other external bodies of water, such as rivers or oceans, but converges instead into lakes or swamps, permanent or seasonal, that equilibrate through evaporation.

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European Alert System

The European Alert System (sometimes referred to as the European Alarm System or European Warning System) is an earthquake warning system for member states of the Council of Europe's EUR-OPA Major Hazards Agreement.

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Gelug

The Gelug (Wylie: dGe-Lugs-Pa) is the newest of the schools of Tibetan Buddhism.

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Gross domestic product

Gross domestic product (GDP) is a monetary measure of the market value of all final goods and services produced in a period (quarterly or yearly) of time.

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Gyêgu

Gyêgu Subdistrict, formerly a part of the Gyêgu town is a township-level division in Yushu, Yushu TAP, Qinghai, China.

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Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture

Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, locally also known as Qaidam Prefecture (mong. Qaidam; tib. Caindam; chin. Chaidamu), is an autonomous prefecture occupying much of the northern tier of as well as part of the southwest Qinghai province, China.

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Han Chinese

The Han Chinese,.

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Hoh Xil

Hoh Xil or Kekexili, (Mongolian for "Blue Ridge", also Aqênganggyai for "Lord of Ten Thousand Mountains"), is an isolated region in the northwestern part of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in China.

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Hui people

The Hui people (Xiao'erjing: خُوِذُو; Dungan: Хуэйзў, Xuejzw) are an East Asian ethnoreligious group predominantly composed of Han Chinese adherents of the Muslim faith found throughout China, mainly in the northwestern provinces of the country and the Zhongyuan region.

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ISO 3166-2:CN

ISO 3166-2:CN is the entry for China in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g. provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.

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Kagyu

The Kagyu, Kagyü, or Kagyud school, also known as the "Oral Lineage" or Whispered Transmission school, is today regarded as one of six main schools (chos lugs) of Himalayan or Tibetan Buddhism.

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Köppen climate classification

The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.

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Kham

Kham is a historical region of Tibet covering a land area largely divided between present-day Tibet Autonomous Region and Sichuan, with smaller portions located within Qinghai, Gansu and Yunnan provinces of China.

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List of ethnic groups in China and Taiwan

Multiple ethnic groups populate China, where "China" is taken to mean areas controlled by either of the two states using "China" in their formal names, the People's Republic of China (China) and the Republic of China (Taiwan).

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List of postal codes in China

Postal codes in the People's Republic of China are postal codes used by China Post for the delivery of letters and goods within mainland China.

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Manchu people

The Manchu are an ethnic minority in China and the people from whom Manchuria derives its name.

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Mekong

The Mekong is a trans-boundary river in Southeast Asia.

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Mongols

The Mongols (ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯᠴᠤᠳ, Mongolchuud) are an East-Central Asian ethnic group native to Mongolia and China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

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Monguor people

The Monguor or Tu people, White Mongol or Tsagaan Mongol are one of the 56 officially recognized ethnic groups in China.

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Nangqên County

Nangqên County, or Nangchen, was formerly one of Kham region's five independent kingdoms and now administered by the CCP as a county of Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in southernmost Qinghai province, China.

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Nyingma

The Nyingma tradition is the oldest of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism (the other three being the Kagyu, Sakya and Gelug).

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Pinyin

Hanyu Pinyin Romanization, often abbreviated to pinyin, is the official romanization system for Standard Chinese in mainland China and to some extent in Taiwan.

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Provinces of China

Provincial-level administrative divisions or first-level administrative divisions, are the highest-level Chinese administrative divisions.

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Qinghai

Qinghai, formerly known in English as Kokonur, is a province of the People's Republic of China located in the northwest of the country.

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Qinghai–Tibet railway

The Qinghai–Tibet railway or Qingzang railway (མཚོ་བོད་ལྕགས་ལམ།, mtsho bod lcags lam), is a high-elevation railway that connects Xining, Qinghai Province, to Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region of China.

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Qumarlêb County

Qumarlêb County (Tibetan: ཆུ་དམར་ལེབ་རྫོང) is a county in the northeast of the Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, south-central Qinghai province, China.

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Sakya

The Sakya ("pale earth") school is one of four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism, the others being the Nyingma, Kagyu, and Gelug.

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Salar people

The Salar people (Salır, سالار;, Xiao'erjing: صَالاذُ) are an ethnic minority of China who largely speak the Salar language, an Oghuz Turkic language.

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Sanjiangyuan

The Sanjiangyuan, is an area of the Tibetan Plateau in Qinghai province, China which contains the headwaters of three great rivers of Asia: the Yellow, the Yangtze, and the Mekong.

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Semi-arid climate

A semi-arid climate or steppe climate is the climate of a region that receives precipitation below potential evapotranspiration, but not as low as a desert climate.

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Subarctic climate

The subarctic climate (also called subpolar climate, subalpine climate, or boreal climate) is a climate characterised by long, usually very cold winters, and short, cool to mild summers.

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Tanggulashan

Tanggulashan Town ("Tanggula Mountains Town"), or Dangla Town, is a town in the southwest of Qinghai province, China.

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Tibet

Tibet is a historical region covering much of the Tibetan Plateau in Central Asia.

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Tibetan people

The Tibetan people are an ethnic group native to Tibet.

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Tibetan pinyin

Pö yig Kigajor--> The SASM/GNC/SRC romanization of Tibetan, commonly known as Tibetan pinyin, is the official transcription system for the Tibetan language in the People's Republic of China for personal names and place names.

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Time in China

The time in China follows a single standard time offset of UTC+08:00 (eight hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time), despite China spanning five geographical time zones.

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Tongtian River

The Zhi Qu (Tibetan) or Tongtian River, flows within Qinghai Province of southern China.

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Tulku

A tulku (also tülku, trulku) is a reincarnate custodian of a specific lineage of teachings in Tibetan Buddhism who is given empowerments and trained from a young age by students of his or her predecessor.

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United States Geological Survey

The United States Geological Survey (USGS, formerly simply Geological Survey) is a scientific agency of the United States government.

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Vehicle registration plates of China

Vehicle registration plates in China are mandatory metal or plastic plates attached to motor vehicles in mainland China for official identification purposes.

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Wylie transliteration

The Wylie transliteration scheme is a method for transliterating Tibetan script using only the letters available on a typical English language typewriter.

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Xinhua News Agency

Xinhua News Agency (English pronunciation: J. C. Wells: Longman Pronunciation Dictionary, 3rd ed., for both British and American English) or New China News Agency is the official state-run press agency of the People's Republic of China.

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Yangtze

The Yangtze, which is 6,380 km (3,964 miles) long, is the longest river in Asia and the third-longest in the world.

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Yellow River

The Yellow River or Huang He is the second longest river in Asia, after the Yangtze River, and the sixth longest river system in the world at the estimated length of.

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Yushu Batang Airport

The Yushu Batang Airport is the airport serving Yushu City in Qinghai Province, China.

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Yushu City, Qinghai

Yushu (Yüxü) is a county-level city of Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in southern Qinghai province, China.

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Zadoi County

Zadoi County (also Dzatö or Dzatoe) is a county of Qinghai Province, China.

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Zhidoi County

Zhidoi County is a county of Qinghai Province, China.

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2010 Yushu earthquake

The 2010 Yushu earthquake struck on April 14 and registered a magnitude of 6.9Mw (USGS, EMSC) or 7.1Ms, xinhuanet.com.

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Gyegu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gyêgu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Yushu Prefecture, ཡུལ་ཤུལ་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ།, ཡུས་ཧྲུའུ།, 玉树州, 玉树藏族自治州, 玉樹州, 玉樹藏族自治州.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yushu_Tibetan_Autonomous_Prefecture

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