Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture is located in the hinterland of the Qinghai Tibet Plateau, the source of the Yellow River, and the southeast of Qinghai Province.The geographical coordinates are 97 ° 54 ′ - 120 ° 50 ′ E and 32 ° 31 ′ - 35 ° 40 ′ N. Dawu, the capital of the prefecture, is 440 km away from Xining, the provincial capital.It borders Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Gansu Province in the east, Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture of Sichuan Province and Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in the south, and Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Qinghai Province in the west.It is adjacent to Haixi Mongolian and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Hainan and Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai Province in the north.The total area is more than 78000 square kilometers, accounting for 10% of the total area of Qinghai Province;It is one of the important animal husbandry production bases in Qinghai Province.It is a national autonomous prefecture with large area, small population, high terrain, wide grasslands and rich resources.It has obvious cold and hypoxia, low temperature, strong light radiation and large temperature difference between day and night
