Administrative divisions of counties in Qinghai province (1992-2016)- A Big Earth Data Platform for Three Poles

The data set contains the Chinese name, English name and the affiliation between the districts and counties in each administrative division of Qinghai. The data were derived from the Qinghai Society and Economics Statistical Yearbook and the Qinghai Statistical Yearbook. The accuracy of the data is consistent with that of the statistical yearbook.

Table 1: The table of administrative divisions in Qinghai has 5 fields.

Field 1: Regions Interpretation: Chinese names of the regions

Field 2: English names of the regions Interpretation: English names of the regions

Field 3: Districts and counties Interpretation: Chinese names of the districts and counties

Field 4: English names of the districts and counties Interpretation: English names of the districts and counties

Field 5: Land area Unit: square kilometers

Table 2: The table of division changes of each county has 5 fields.

Field 1: Districts and counties

Field 2: Year

Field 3: Area Unit: square kilometers

Field 4: Number of townships

Field 5: Number of Village Committees

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Qinghai Provincial Bureau of Statistics. (2018). Administrative divisions of counties in Qinghai province (1992-2016). A Big Earth Data Platform for Three Poles, (Download the reference： RIS | Bibtex )

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