Qinghai, China City & Prefecture Boundaries

Eight cities and prefectures, 25th of 27 by count, above 45 counties and districts that all carry GB/T 2260 codes.

Qinghai Province at city level: 8 units, with the rest of the country drawn faintly behind them. Same fields and formats as the national file, so it drops into an existing build without a schema change.

What is in the file

Formats	GeoJSON · SHP · SVG · DXF · GML · KML · CSV, one zip
Coordinate system	WGS 84 · EPSG:4326 · decimal degrees
Geometry	MultiPolygon — one feature per division
Codes	6-digit GB/T 2260, e.g. 440300
Names	name_en and name_zh on every feature
Hierarchy	province_code → city_code → code
Extras	parts, center_lon, center_lat, bbox
License	Commercial use, one organization, no attribution required
Delivery	Instant download; links re-issued whenever you open them
Data current to	20 October 2026

GeoJSON.geojson

RFC 7946, the reference version of the data.

Code, web maps, PostGISWGS 84

Shapefile.shp

With .shx, .dbf, .prj and .cpg. UTF-8 attributes intact.

ArcGIS, QGIS projectsWGS 84

SVG.svg

One group per division, keyed by its code. Names sit in a layer you can hide.

PowerPoint, Illustrator, InkscapeDegrees

DXF.dxf

R12 ASCII, projected to meters, simplified to about 45 m.

AutoCAD, illustrationMeters, LCC

GML.gml

OGC GML 3.2, latitude written before longitude.

GeoServer, XML pipelinesWGS 84

KML.kml

Styled so it looks reasonable when you double-click it.

Google Earth, quick checksWGS 84

CSV.csv

UTF-8 with BOM, so Excel shows the Chinese names instead of squares.

Excel, pandas, joins—

Every unit in this dataset

Code	English	Chinese
630100	Xining City	西宁市
630200	Haidong City	海东市
632200	Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture	海北藏族自治州
632300	Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture	黄南藏族自治州
632500	Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture	海南藏族自治州
632600	Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture	果洛藏族自治州
632700	Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture	玉树藏族自治州
632800	Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture	海西蒙古族藏族自治州

8 features. Every row keeps the GB/T 2260 code, so it joins to national statistics without name matching.

Other China boundary data

Prefer a slide to a shapefile? The same boundaries are sold as a PowerPoint map at Geoslides: Editable Qinghai city map for PowerPoint.