Qinghai is the province of Qinghai (People's Republic of China **** and the country's provincial administrative regions)

Qinghai, located in western China, is located in the northeastern part of the world's roof of the Tibetan Plateau. It is one of the most important provinces on the Tibetan Plateau in China, known as Qinghai for short, with Xining as its provincial capital. According to the bulletin of the Second National Land Survey, Qinghai Province is about 1,200 kilometers long from east to west and 800 kilometers wide from north to south, with an area of 721,000 square kilometers.

The territory is characterized by high mountain ranges, diverse terrain, rivers and lakes. The Kunlun Mountains cross the center, Tanggula Mountain stands in the south, Qilian Mountain stands in the north, the vast grassland undulating stretches, Qaidam Basin is infinite. The Yangtze River, the source of the Yellow River in Qinghai, China's largest inland plateau saltwater lake is also in Qinghai, so the name "Qinghai".

Qinghai and Gansu, Sichuan, Tibet, Xinjiang border, jurisdiction of Xining City, Haidong City, two prefectural-level cities and Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Haixi Prefecture, Haibei Prefecture, Hainan Prefecture, Huangnan Prefecture, Golog Prefecture, and other six national autonomous prefectures, **** 48 county-level administrative units. There are 43 ethnic minorities in Qinghai Province, including Tibetans, Hui, Mongols, Turks and Salarians, and the province's resident population is 5,934,600 (2016).

Qinghai is known as the "Roof of the World". The eastern part of Qinghai is known as the "Key to the Heavenly River", "Throat of Tibet and the Sea", "Barrier of the Golden City", "Impulse of the Western Regions" and the "Throat of the Jade Plateau". "Jade plug throat" and so on, is the Yangtze River, the Yellow River, the Lancang River's birthplace, known as "three rivers", "the source of the river", "China's water tower ". Qinghai Province is located in the northeastern part of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, Qinghai's topography is a plateau with basins, mountains and valleys. It is part of the "Roof of the World" Tibetan Plateau.