Linxia

Linxia City, when known as Hezhou is an area level city in the region of Gansu of the People's Republic of China, and the capital of the multi-ethnic Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture. The number of inhabitants in the whole province level city of Linxia which incorporates both the focal city and some rustic region is assessed at 250,000; of which, 58.4% is named urban populace. For quite a long time, Hezhou/ Linxia has been one of the primary religious, social, and business focuses of China's Muslim people group, procuring itself the epithet of "the little Mecca of China".

Authoritatively, Linxia City is a joined area level city. Not at all like numerous Chinese province level urban communities, which incorporate a region measure span of the wide open, the limits of Linxia City incorporate just a genuinely little territory 88.6 km2, extended along the Daxia River, which in this area streams towards the upper east. Linxia City has more than 80 mosques, worked in an assortment of compositional styles. There are likewise ious gongbei holy places focused on graves of Sufi bosses.