Xining in Chinese or Silung in Tibetan (Simplified Chinese: 西宁, Traditional Chinese: 西寧, Tibetan: ཟི་ནིང་; Pinyin: Xīníng, Wylie: Zi-ning) is the capital of Qinghai Province, People's Republic of China.

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Xining

Population : (2006) 1,029,400

Xining (Simplified Chinese : 西宁, Traditional Chinese : 西寧; Pinyin : Xīníng, Wylie: Zi-ning) is the capital of Qinghai Province, People's Republic of China.

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A beautiful city, with a smal cute skyline. Anyway, this city is quite unknown to me, how large is the population in the city?

Looks pretty nice for a capital of an inland province with a small population(By China's standard)

Looks pretty nice for a capital of an inland province with a small population(By China's standard)

How large is the city's population?:)

I think it's about 600000

I think it's about 600000

Ok, a smal city to be in China, but a large city in my standard....;)

Yes .. it's not a big city if it considers in China.

Xining is the capital of Qinghai province ... a very poor province in west part of China

Awesome pictures, thanks for sharing. :)

sadly it seems all the pics on here have expired. anyone have recent pics of Xining in Qinghai? thanks :)

The smallest capital city-----------XINING！（面积最小的省会城市）

city 3: Xining city （西宁市）skyline. Xining is the capital city of very poor western province Qinghai, not a big city and not a huge skyline, but has many nice spots. Too bad there are not many large pictures of this city
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Xie xie my friend. that was fast!!
i hate to bother you again so soon..but do you have Yining (Xinjiang) too? I'm interested in lesser known western Chinese cities :)

Yining?
what is the chinese name?

Yining?
what is the chinese name?

伊宁 (伊寧), which is the Chinese name. the local name Ghulja/Khuldja

好图

伊宁 (伊寧), which is the Chinese name. the local name Ghulja/Khuldja

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http://images2.sina.com/auto/photo/xingjiang/U642P33T148D3221F2100DT20040508165914.jpg :cheers: :cheers:

Xining

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Street scene

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Mosque

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Railway station

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Night

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--Wikipedia

What the mountain in the background?
There is mosque in there, so how many population of moslem? thanks for sharing

^^ I don't know the mountain name. Currently Xining's total population is 1.9 million, moslem population is 330,000, 17% of total.