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General Introduction
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The province in the upper Yangtze and Yellow river valleys in the northeastern part of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in the southern part of northwestern China takes its name from its large salt lake, Qinghai. It has an area of 720,000 square kilometers and a population of 3.77 million, of which 20 per cent live in the cities and the rest in the rural areas. The bulk of the population is concentrated in the farming area in the east which makes up only 5 per cent of the province's total area. Of its total population, 1.43 million are from the Tibetan, Mongolian, Hui, Tu, Salar, Kazak and other minority nationalities.
(china.org.cn)
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