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Altyn-Tagh
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Altyn-Tagh, also called the Altun Mountains, is a mountain range in northwestern China that separates the eastern Tarim Basin from the Tibetan Plateau. The western third is wholly within Xinjiang, while the eastern part forms the border between Qinghai to the south, and Xinjiang and Gansu to the north.
Key facts
- Mountain.name
- Altyn-Tagh
- Mountain.other_name
- Altun Mountains, Altun Shan, A'erjin Shan, A-erh-chin Shan
- Mountain.image
- Altai, Tienschan-Orte.png
- Mountain.image_caption
- Eastern part of Altun Shan at bottom of elevation map
- Mountain.country
- China
- Mountain.subdivision1_type
- Provinces
- Mountain.biome
- Desert
- Mountain.highest
- Sulamutag Feng
- Mountain.highest_location
- Xinjiang
- Mountain.elevation_m
- 6245
- Mountain.length_km
- 805
- Mountain.length_orientation
- WSW-ENE
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Encyclopedic overview
11 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Geography
- Intermontane endorheic basins
- Major Peaks
- Economic development
- See also
- Notes
- Footnotes
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Altyn-Tagh, also called the Altun Mountains, is a mountain range in northwestern China that separates the eastern Tarim Basin from the Tibetan Plateau. The western third is wholly within Xinjiang, while the eastern part forms the border between Qinghai to the south, and Xinjiang and Gansu to the north.
Altun Shan, i.e. Altun Mountain, is also the name of a mountain near the eastern end of the range, the highest point in Gansu.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Altyn-Tagh” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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