page_title: Linxia County
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Linxia County / Geography
caption_attribution_description: English: Panorama of the lower Daxia River valley, seen from the edge of the loess plateau in NE Linxia County, facing E, S, and SE. On the right, one can see part of the plateau and a canyon cutting thru it. The near side of the river is in Linxia County (Hexi Township), the far side, in Dongxiang County (Hetan Town). Five photos have been stitched with Hugin, using cylindrical projection.
context_page_description: Linxia County is a county in the Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture, province of Gansu of the People's Republic of China.
context_section_description: Linxia County is located in central and south-western parts of the  Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture, extending from the shores of Liujiaxia Reservoir in the north (at 1735 m elevation above the sea level, the lowest part of the county), to Taizu Mountains in the south and Dalijia Mountain (达里加山) (at 4613 m elevation above the sea level, the highest point in the county) in the west.
  The county's river network is formed primarily by small rivers that flow to the  northeast and north from the mountains that line the county's southwestern border toward the Yellow River (i.e., these days, the  Liujiaxia Reservoir) near the northern end of the county. The largest of these rivers is the Daxia River  (大夏河), which flows from the Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture to cross Linxia County. The river's lower course forms the border between Linxia County and the neighboring Dongxiang Autonomous County to the east. It forms a large bay at its outfall into the Liujiaxia Reservoir.
  The county surrounds  the prefecture seat, Linxia City, from the north, south, and west, but does not include it, since Linxia City forms a county-level administrative unit of its own.
  The county seat is located at Hanji Town (韩集镇), 24 km (15 mi) southwest of Linxia City. While most detailed (prefecture-level) maps label that location accordingly, less detailed (provincial) maps simply mark it as "Linxia County" (临夏县), which still makes it distinct from the county seat (labeled "Linxia City" (临夏市)). More confusingly, even less detailed maps may mark both Linxia City and Hanji Town simply as "Linxia" (临夏).
caption: Panorama of the lower Daxia River valley in the northeast of the county, and the loess plateau flanking in, cut by a canyon
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