Henan Mongol Autonomous County

Henan County
Henan Mongol Autonomous County
河南蒙古族自治县
ᠾᠧᠨᠠᠨ ᠶᠢᠨ ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠦᠨᠳᠦᠰᠦᠲᠡᠨ ᠦ ᠥᠪᠡᠷᠲᠡᠭᠡᠨ ᠵᠠᠰᠠᠬᠤ ᠰᠢᠶᠠᠨ
རྨ་ལྷོ་སོག་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་རྫོང་།
Location of Henan County (red) in Huangnan Prefecture (yellow) and Qinghai
Henan
Location of the seat in Qinghai
Coordinates (Henan County government): 34°44′05″N 101°37′04″E / 34.7348°N 101.6177°E / 34.7348; 101.6177
CountryChina
ProvinceQinghai
Autonomous prefectureHuangnan
County seatYêgainnyin Town
Area
 • Total
6,250 km2 (2,410 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)
 • Total
40,864
 • Density5.16/km2 (13.4/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Websitewww.henanxian.gov.cn
Henan Mongol Autonomous County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese河南蒙古族自治县
Traditional Chinese河南蒙古族自治縣
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinHénán Ménggǔ Zìzhìxiàn
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutpingho4naam4 mung4gu2zuk6 zi6zi6jyun2
Tibetan name
Tibetanརྨ་ལྷོ་སོག་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་རྫོང་།
Transcriptions
Wylierma lho sog rigs rang skyong rdzong
Tibetan PinyinMalho Sogrig Ranggyong Zong
Mongolian name
Mongolian CyrillicХөнаний Монгол үндэстний өөртөө засах шянь
Mongolian scriptᠾᠧᠨᠠᠨ ᠶᠢᠨ ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠦᠨᠳᠦᠰᠦᠲᠡᠨ ᠦ ᠥᠪᠡᠷᠲᠡᠭᠡᠨ ᠵᠠᠰᠠᠬᠤ ᠰᠢᠶᠠᠨ

Henan Mongol Autonomous County is an autonomous county in the south of Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in the province of Qinghai, China, bordering Gansu Province to the south and east. Its administrative seat ("capital") is the town of Yêgainnyin (Youganning). Henan has an area of 6,250 km2 (2,410 sq mi) and approximately 30,000 inhabitants (2004). The Mongols or Upper Mongols (Sogwo Arig), the overwhelming majority of the inhabitants of the county, do not speak Mongolian (with relatively few exceptions) and speak primarily Standard Chinese and Tibetan.