page_title: Haiyuan County
hierarchical_section_title: Haiyuan County
caption_attribution_description: English: Location of Haiyuan county in Zhongwei city, China
context_page_description: Haiyuan County is a county under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Zhongwei in the southwest of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China. It originally belonged to Gansu province, and is now bordered by Gansu to the west. The county has a total area of 6,897 km², and a population of approximately 360,000 people. It was the site of the 1920 Haiyuan earthquake, which killed at least 200,000 people.
context_section_description: Haiyuan County (simplified Chinese: 海原县; traditional Chinese: 海原縣; pinyin: Hǎiyuán Xiàn; Wade–Giles: Hai-yüan Hsien) is a county under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Zhongwei in the southwest of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China. It originally belonged to Gansu province, and is now bordered by Gansu to the west. The county has a total area of 6,897 km² (2,663 sq mi), and a population of approximately 360,000 people. It was the site of the 1920 Haiyuan earthquake, which killed at least 200,000 people.
caption: Haiyuan in Zhongwei
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