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| name                     = Delingha
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| native_name              = {{lang|zh-hans|德令哈市}} · {{MongolUnicode|{{allow wrap|ᠳᠡᠯᠡᠬᠡᠢ ᠬᠣᠲᠠ}}|style=max-height:1.4em;text-align:left;word-wrap: normal}} · {{bo-textonly|གཏེར་ལེན་ཁ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།}}
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| subdivision_name1        = [[Qinghai]]
| subdivision_type2        = [[Autonomous prefecture]]
| subdivision_name2        = [[Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture|Haixi]]
| seat_type                = Municipal seat
| seat                     = [[Hexi Subdistrict, Delingha|Hexi Subdistrict]]
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| elevation_m              = 2982
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| population_as_of         = 2020
| population_footnotes     = <ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.haixi.gov.cn/info/4543/228143.htm  |title = 海西州第七次全国人口普查公报（第二号）——各市县、行委常住人口情况  |publisher = Government of Haixi Prefecture |language = zh   |date = 2021-07-02 }}</ref>
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| timezone                 = [[China Standard Time|China Standard]]
| utc_offset               = +8
| coor_pinpoint            = Delingha municipal government
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| postal_code              = 817000
| area_code                = 0977
| website                  = {{URL|http://www.delingha.gov.cn}}
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{{Infobox Chinese
|c=德令哈市|p=Délìnghā Shì
|tib={{bo-textonly|གཏེར་ལིན་ཁ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།}}|wylie=gter lin kha grong khyer|zwpy=Dêrlinka Chongkyêr
|mon= |mong=[[File:Delehei_hota.PNG|20px]]
|monr=Delhi hot
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'''Delingha''' ({{zh|s=德令哈}}; {{bo|t=གཏེར་ལིན་ཁ།}}), or '''Delhi''' ({{langx|mn|{{MongolUnicode|ᠳᠡᠯᠡᠬᠡᠢ ᠬᠣᠲᠠ|style=max-height:1.4em;text-align:left;word-wrap:normal}}}}), is the seat of the [[Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture]] in northern [[Qinghai]] province, China. It is located approximately {{convert|200|km|abbr=on}} southeast of the [[Da Qaidam|Da Qaidam Administrative Region]]. It is a mainly industrial [[county-level city]]. The Bayin River divides the city into two parts: [[Hedong Subdistrict, Delingha|Hedong]] and [[Hexi Subdistrict, Delingha|Hexi]]. Because the prefecture seat is located in Hedong, it is slightly more flourishing than Hexi, which is chiefly agricultural.<ref name = "Official Background">{{cite web
|url          = http://www.qh.xinhuanet.com/dlh/g.htm
|script-title = zh:德令哈概况
|publisher    = Xinhua.net
|language     = zh-hans
|access-date  = 2011-12-08
|archive-date = 1 May 2010
|archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20100501223713/http://www.qh.xinhuanet.com/dlh/g.htm
|url-status   = dead
}}</ref>
Established in 1988, Delingha administers seven township-level divisions covering an area of {{convert|27700|km2|abbr=on}} and has a total population of 78,184, making it the smallest of the five cities in Qinghai. The name of the city comes from Mongolian and means "golden world" ({{mongolUnicode|ᠠᠯᠲᠠᠨ ᠳᠡᠯᠡᠬᠡᠢ|style=max-height:1.4em;text-align:left;word-wrap: normal}}),<ref name = "Official Background"/> reflecting the relatively large Mongol population of the city. [[Da Qaidam]] administrative zone merged into Delingha in mid-2018.
==Administrative divisions==
Delingha is divided into 3 [[Subdistricts of China|subdistricts]], 3 [[Towns of China|towns]], and 1 [[Townships of China|township]].
{| class="wikitable" align="center" style="width:50%; border="1"
|-
! Name
! Simplified Chinese
! Hanyu Pinyin
! [[Tibetan script|Tibetan]]
! [[Wylie transliteration|Wylie]]
! [[Mongolian language|Mongolian]] ([[Mongolian script|traditional script]])
! Mongolian ([[Mongolian Cyrillic alphabet|Cyrillic]])
! [[Administrative division codes of the People's Republic of China|Administrative division code]]
|-
| colspan="8"  style="text-align:center; background:#d3d3d3;"|'''Subdistricts'''
|----------
| [[Hexi Subdistrict, Delingha|Hexi Subdistrict]]
| {{lang|zh-hans|河西街道}}
| {{transl|zh|Héxī Jiēdào}}
| {{bo-textonly|ཆུ་ནུབ་སྲང་ལམ།}}
| {{transl|bo|chu nub srang lam}}
| {{MongolUnicode|ᠭᠣᠣᠯ ᠤᠨ ᠬᠣᠢᠨᠠᠬᠢ ᠵᠡᠭᠡᠯᠢ ᠭᠤᠳᠤᠮᠵᠢ|style=max-height:2em;word-wrap:normal}}
| {{lang|mn|Голын хойнох зээл гудамж}}
| 632802001
|-
| [[Hedong Subdistrict, Delingha|Hedong Subdistrict]]
| {{lang|zh-hans|河东街道}}
| {{transl|zh|Hédōng Jiēdào}}
| {{bo-textonly|ཆུ་ཤར་སྲང་ལམ།}}
| {{transl|bo|chu shar srang lam}}
| {{MongolUnicode|ᠭᠣᠣᠯ ᠤᠨ ᠡᠮᠦᠨᠡᠬᠢ ᠵᠡᠭᠡᠯᠢ ᠭᠤᠳᠤᠮᠵᠢ|style=max-height:2em;word-wrap:normal}}
| {{lang|mn|Голын өмнөх зээл гудамж}}
| 632802002
|-
| [[Railway Station Subdistrict, Delingha|Railway Station Subdistrict]]
| {{lang|zh-hans|火车站街道}}
| {{transl|zh|Huǒchēzhàn Jiēdào}}
| {{bo-textonly|མེ་འགོར་ས་ཚུགས་སྲང་ལམ།}}
| {{transl|bo|me 'gor sa tshugs srang lam}}
| {{MongolUnicode|ᠭᠠᠯᠲᠤ ᠲᠡᠷᠭᠡᠨ ᠥᠷᠲᠡᠭᠡᠨ ᠦ ᠵᠡᠭᠡᠯᠢ ᠭᠤᠳᠤᠮᠵᠢ|style=max-height:2em;word-wrap:normal}}
| {{lang|mn|Галт тэргэн өртөөний зээл гудамж}}
| 632802003
|-
| colspan="8"  style="text-align:center; background:#d3d3d3;"|'''Towns'''
|----------
| [[Gahai, Delingha|Gahai Town]]
| {{lang|zh-hans|尕海镇}}
| {{transl|zh|Gǎhǎi Zhèn}}
| {{bo-textonly|ཀ་ཧྭའེ་གྲོང་རྡལ།}}
| {{transl|bo|ka hwa'e grong rdal}}
| {{MongolUnicode|ᠪᠠᠭᠠᠬᠤᠨᠠᠭᠤᠷ ᠪᠠᠯᠭᠠᠰᠤᠨ|style=max-height:2em;word-wrap:normal}}
| {{lang|mn|Бааахнуур балгас}}
| 632802100
|-
| [[Hoit Taria|Hoit Taria Town]]
| {{lang|zh-hans|怀头他拉镇}}
| {{transl|zh|Huáitóutālā Zhèn}}
| {{bo-textonly|ཧྭའེ་ཐིག་ཐ་ལ་གྲོང་རྡལ།}}
| {{transl|bo|hwa'e thig tha la grong rdal}}
| {{MongolUnicode|ᠬᠣᠢᠲᠤᠲᠠᠷᠢᠶ᠎ᠠ ᠪᠠᠯᠭᠠᠰᠤᠨ|style=max-height:2em;word-wrap:normal}}
| {{lang|mn|Хойтдаариа балгас}}
| 632802101
|-
| [[Hurleg|Hurleg Town]]
| {{lang|zh-hans|柯鲁柯镇}}
| {{transl|zh|Kēlǔkē Zhèn}}
| {{bo-textonly|ཁི་ལུའུ་ཁི་གྲོང་རྡལ།}}
| {{transl|bo|khi lu'u khi grong rdal}}
| {{MongolUnicode|ᠬᠥᠷᠯᠥᠩ ᠪᠠᠯᠭᠠᠰᠤᠨ|style=max-height:2em;word-wrap:normal}}
| {{lang|mn|Хэрлон балгас}}
| 632802102
|-
| colspan="8"  style="text-align:center; background:#d3d3d3;"|'''Township'''
|----------
| [[Suj Township]]
| {{lang|zh-hans|蓄集乡}}
| {{transl|zh|Xùjí Xiāng}}
| {{bo-textonly|ཕྱུགས་སྐྱིལ་ཡུལ་ཚོ།}}
| {{transl|bo|phyugs skyil yul tsho}}
| {{MongolUnicode|ᠰᠦᠵᠢ ᠰᠤᠮᠤᠨ|style=max-height:2em;word-wrap:normal}}
| {{lang|mn|Сүж суман}}
| 632802200
|-
|}
==Geography==
===Climate===
Delingha has a [[cool semi-arid climate]] ([[Köppen climate classification|Köppen]] ''BSk'') just moist enough to avoid being a [[cool arid climate]] (''BWk''), characterised by warm summers with moderate rainfall and frigid to freezing, dry winters.
{{Weather box|width=auto
|metric first=y
|single line=y
|collapsed = Y
|location = Delingha, elevation {{convert|2982|m|ft|abbr=on}}, (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1971–2010)
|Jan high C = 	-2.4
|Feb high C = 	2.3
|Mar high C = 	7.9
|Apr high C = 	14.1
|May high C = 	18.2
|Jun high C = 	21.2
|Jul high C = 	23.7
|Aug high C = 	23.6
|Sep high C = 	19.1
|Oct high C = 	12.2
|Nov high C = 	4.7
|Dec high C = 	-0.9
|Jan mean C = 	-9.8
|Feb mean C = 	-5.2
|Mar mean C = 	0.4
|Apr mean C = 	6.8
|May mean C = 	11.4
|Jun mean C = 	14.8
|Jul mean C = 	17.2
|Aug mean C = 	16.8
|Sep mean C = 	12.0
|Oct mean C = 	4.4
|Nov mean C = 	-3.0
|Dec mean C = 	-8.6
|Jan low C = 	-15.3
|Feb low C = 	-11.0
|Mar low C = 	-5.7
|Apr low C = 	0.1
|May low C = 	5.1
|Jun low C = 	9.3
|Jul low C = 	11.8
|Aug low C = 	11.4
|Sep low C = 	6.5
|Oct low C = 	-1.3
|Nov low C = 	-8.3
|Dec low C = 	-13.9
|Jan record high C = 9.6 |Jan record low C = -30.9
|Feb record high C = 12.3 |Feb record low C = -32.4
|Mar record high C = 18.9 |Mar record low C = -21.3
|Apr record high C = 27.4 |Apr record low C = -10.9
|May record high C = 29.3 |May record low C = -7.4
|Jun record high C = 29.4 |Jun record low C = -2.5
|Jul record high C = 34.7 |Jul record low C = 0.5
|Aug record high C = 34.2 |Aug record low C = -0.9
|Sep record high C = 31.7 |Sep record low C = -8.9
|Oct record high C = 22.4 |Oct record low C = -14.2
|Nov record high C = 14.6 |Nov record low C = -20.3
|Dec record high C = 8.4 |Dec record low C = -28.4
|year high C =  |year low C =
|year high F =  |year low F =
|precipitation colour = green
|Jan precipitation mm = 	4.9
|Feb precipitation mm = 	3.8
|Mar precipitation mm = 	6.2
|Apr precipitation mm = 	6.4
|May precipitation mm = 	26.2
|Jun precipitation mm = 	45.9
|Jul precipitation mm = 	51.7
|Aug precipitation mm = 	39.1
|Sep precipitation mm = 	24.1
|Oct precipitation mm = 	6.1
|Nov precipitation mm = 	2.9
|Dec precipitation mm = 	1.9
|unit precipitation days = 0.1 mm
|Jan precipitation days = 	3.6
|Feb precipitation days = 	2.2
|Mar precipitation days = 	2.3
|Apr precipitation days = 	2.5
|May precipitation days = 	6.2
|Jun precipitation days = 	10.5
|Jul precipitation days = 	11.5
|Aug precipitation days = 	9.3
|Sep precipitation days = 	6.2
|Oct precipitation days = 	1.9
|Nov precipitation days = 	1.3
|Dec precipitation days = 	1.9
|year precipitation days =
|Jan humidity = 	41
|Feb humidity = 	34
|Mar humidity = 	28
|Apr humidity = 	27
|May humidity = 	35
|Jun humidity = 	44
|Jul humidity = 	48
|Aug humidity = 	46
|Sep humidity = 	45
|Oct humidity = 	36
|Nov humidity = 	35
|Dec humidity = 	38
|Jan sun = 	226.4
|Feb sun = 	219.9
|Mar sun = 	253.1
|Apr sun = 	270.4
|May sun = 	272.5
|Jun sun = 	248.8
|Jul sun = 	250.9
|Aug sun = 	252.2
|Sep sun = 	241.3
|Oct sun = 	260.5
|Nov sun = 	237.1
|Dec sun = 	226.5
|year sun =
| Jan percentsun = 	73
| Feb percentsun = 	71
| Mar percentsun = 	68
| Apr percentsun = 	68
| May percentsun = 	62
| Jun percentsun = 	57
| Jul percentsun = 	57
| Aug percentsun = 	61
| Sep percentsun = 	66
| Oct percentsun = 	76
| Nov percentsun = 	79
| Dec percentsun = 	76
| year percentsun =
|Jan snow days = 	4.7
|Feb snow days = 	3.8
|Mar snow days = 	3.3
|Apr snow days = 	3.3
|May snow days = 	1.9
|Jun snow days = 	0.2
|Jul snow days = 	0
|Aug snow days = 	0
|Sep snow days = 	0
|Oct snow days = 	2.0
|Nov snow days = 	2.1
|Dec snow days = 	2.6
|year snow days =
|source 1 = [[China Meteorological Administration]]<ref name="cma graphical">{{cite web |url=http://data.cma.cn/data/weatherBk.html |script-title=zh:中国气象数据网 – WeatherBk Data |publisher=[[China Meteorological Administration]] |language = zh-hans |access-date=27 September 2023}}</ref><ref>
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| source 2 = Weather China<ref name = Clim>{{cite web
| url = http://www.weather.com.cn/cityintro/101150701.shtml?
| script-title=zh:海西 – 气象数据 -中国天气网
| publisher = Weather China
| language = zh
| access-date = 29 November 2022}}</ref>
}}
==Transportation==
The [[Haixi Delingha Airport]] and [[Delingha railway station]] serve the city.
==Economy and industry==
Delingha will be home to a 400 million yuan "Mars village" used by the [[Chinese Academy of Sciences]] to plan future [[Exploration of Mars|Mars explorations missions]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2110051/there-price-mars-chinas-red-planet-simulator-set-cost-us61?mc_cid=7481b0eca3&mc_eid=1f9d28130a |newspaper=[[South China Morning Post]] |title=China's Mars base plan revealed ... and covering 95,000 sq km, there's certainly plenty of space |date=7 September 2017 |access-date=9 September 2017 |first=Laurie |last=Chen}}</ref>
At an altitude of {{convert|3000|m|sp=us}}, a 50 MW [[concentrated solar power]] plant with [[parabolic trough]] opened in 2018.<ref>[https://deutsche-csp.de/wp-content/uploads/042018-DCSP_Newsletter.pdf Newsletter 2018], page 7</ref>
==References==
{{Reflist}}
{{County-level divisions of Qinghai}}
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[[Category:Delingha| ]]
[[Category:Amdo]]
[[Category:County-level divisions of Qinghai]]
[[Category:Cities in Qinghai]]
[[Category:Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture]]