Named after Qinghai Lake, the largest inland salt - water lake in China, Qinghai Province is located in the northeastern part of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau in western China. Qinghai covers an area of 720,000 square kilometers (about 278,000 square miles), which makes it the fourth largest province in China. Its total population is some 5 million, among which Han, Tibetan, Tu, Hui, Salar and Mongolian minority ethnic groups are represented.

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Qinghai is a place suggestive of poetry or painting but it is not so remote. From its natural location, Qinghai, whose main body forms a part of the magnificent Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, lies to the west of the middle part of the Chinese territory, with Gansu Province, Sichuan Province, Tibet and Xinjiang autonomous regions as its neighbours.

Major Cities of Qinghai are :

Xining , HaiDong , HaiXi , HaiDong ,HaiNan ,Haibei,Huangnan ,Geermu

Highlights of Qinghai
Ta’er Monastery (Kumbum Monastery), which is considered one of the six great monasteries of Gelukpa in Tibetan Buddhism and vast Qinghai Lake, attract nature lovers who enjoy camping, hiking and bird-watching as well as people who have a fascination with Buddhism. The “Small Imperial Palace in Qinghai”Qutan Monastery, snow - capped A Nyemaqen Mountain and the Highland Xishuangbanna芒鈧?Mengda Nature Reserve are also well-known all over the world. Culturally speaking, Repkong Art displays the creative talents of the Qinghai people through painting.

Best time to Visit Qinghai

Qinghai’s climate is characterized by short cool summers and long freezing winters. Due to drastic temperature fluctuations from day to night, summer may be the best time to visit Qinghai because this is when the road to Tibet, via Golmud is open and its climate is friendliest to its visitors.

Qinghai Transportation - Getting to Qinghai and moving around.
The city has many domestic connections but no international flights. There’s a flight to Lhasa twice a week during the summer for about RMB 1,300 plus the costs of the necessary permits.Civil aviation is over 10,000 km, has opened Xining to Beijing, Urumqi, Lanzhou, Xi’an, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Shanghai, Golmud, Lhasa, and other flightsThe Lanzhou-Qinghai, Qinghai-Tibet Railway and 4 more main lanes, 59 lanes through all province the railway track length of 1,100 km. On 2005, the completion of cargo transport volume 15.624 billion ton kilometer.The total length of highways opened to traffic lines 29,700 km, of which the highway mileage of 171 km.

Qinghai Visitor’s Guide - Everything you need to know about Qinghai.