Datong Hui and Tu Autonomous County
Datong County
大通县 གསེར་ཁོག་རྫོང་། | |
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| 大通回族土族自治县 རྟ་ཐང་ཧུའེ་རིགས་ཧོར་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་རྫོང་། · دَاتْو خُوِذُو تُوذُو ذِجِشِیًا · Daatun Hui szarbaten Mongghul szarbaten njeenaa daglagu xan Datong Hui and Tu Autonomous County | |
Looking west over Datong town from Mt Laoye | |
Location of the county (red) in Xining City (yellow) and Qinghai | |
Location of Datong | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Qinghai |
| Prefecture-level city | Xining |
| Seat | Qiaotou Town |
| Area | |
• Total | 3,090 km2 (1,190 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 2,442 m (8,012 ft) |
| Population (2020) | |
• Total | 403,368 |
| • Density | 130/km2 (340/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
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| Simplified Chinese | 大通回族土族自治县 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 大通回族土族自治縣 | ||||||
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| Tibetan | རྟ་ཐང་ཧུའེ་རིགས་ཧོར་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་རྫོང་། or གསེར་ཁོག་རྫོང་། | ||||||
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Datong Hui and Tu Autonomous County, Datong County, or Serkhog County (simplified Chinese: 大通回族土族自治县; traditional Chinese: 大通回族土族自治縣; pinyin: Dàtōng Huízú Tǔzú Zìzhìxiàn; Tibetan: རྟ་ཐང་ཧུའེ་རིགས་ཧོར་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་རྫོང; or more frequently Tibetan: གསེར་ཁོག་རྫོང; Monguor: Daatun Hui szarbaten Mongghul szarbaten njeenaa daglagu xan; Xiao'erjing: دَاتْو خُوِذُو تُوذُو ذِجِشِیًا) is an autonomous county of Hui and Tu peoples in Qinghai Province, China. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Xining, the capital of Qinghai.
Since 2009, a folk music "Flower Festival" has been held annually in late July on "Mount Laoye" (2928 m) in Datong town.