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Qinghai
Province, located in the northwestern part of China, is one of the poorest
provinces in the whole country. Qinghai Province is next to the Tibetan
Autonomous Region. There are only 4,900,000 inhabitants in this vast
piece of land (720,000 sq km) and it bustles with different tribes,
including Tibetans, Mongolians, Uighurs, Kazakhs and lots of Hui Muslims.
Most of the Hans dwell in the Province's capital city Xining, the only
large city in this remote and barren province. This sparsely populated
province is made up of high altitude plateaus, snow capped mountains
and grasslands inhabited by nomadic herders. With most of the province
above 3,000 meters (9,840ft), the Qinghai climate is typically arid,
with short bright summers, long cold winters and extreme temperature
differences between day and night.
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