'Xunhua Salar Autonomous County' (
simplified Chinese: 循化撒拉族自治县;
pinyin: Xúnhuà Sǎlázú Zìzhìxiàn) lies in the southeast of
Haidong Prefecture of the Chinese province of
Qinghai, for instance 35.5° northern latitude, 102,3° eastern longitude. The county has an
area of around 2,100
km² and approximately 110,000 inhabitants (2002). In the east it borders on the province of
Gansu, in the south and the west to the
Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, its
capital is the town of
Jishi.
Ethnic groups in Xunhua, 2000 census