Xunhua Salar Autonomous County

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Xunhua Country (pink) within Haidong Prefecture (yellow) within Qinghai

Xunhua Salar Autonomous County (simplified Chinese: 循化撒拉族自治县; pinyin: Xúnhuà Sǎlázú Zìzhìxiàn; Salar: Gökdeñiz Velayat Şünxua Salır Özbaşdak Yurt) 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 postal code is 811100, and its capital is the town of Jishi.

As of April 2009 Xunhua is also the site of a mosque containing the oldest hand-written copy of the Qur'an in China, believed to have been written sometime between the 8th and 13th centuries.^[1]

[edit] Ethnic groups in Xunhua, 2000 census

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Coordinates: 35°05′N 102°03′E / 35.083°N 102.05°E / 35.083; 102.05

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