| Bayan Har Mountains | |
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 Yaonü Lake, Nianbaoyuze Geopark, Jigzhi County, Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. | |
| Geography | |
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| Location | Qinghai, China |
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| Chinese name | |||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 巴顏喀拉山脈 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 巴颜喀拉山脉[a] | ||||||||||
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| Tibetan name | |||||||||||
| Tibetan | བ་ཡན་ཁ་ལ་རག་མོ | ||||||||||
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| Mongolian Cyrillic | Баянхар уул | ||||||||||
| Mongolian script | ᠪᠠᠶᠠᠨᠬᠠᠷᠠ ᠠᠭᠤᠯᠠ | ||||||||||
The Bayan Har Mountains, formerly known as the Bayen-káras[2] or Bayan-Kara-Ula, are a mountain range in Qinghai Province, northwest China. The name is Mongolian for "Rich and Black".[3] It can be viewed as one of the branches of the Kunlun Mountains. It separates the drainage areas of both the Yellow and the Yangtze rivers. The source of the Yellow River is the Yueguzonglie Basin (Gyaring-Ngoring Lakes), which is located in the northern part of the range.[4]
- ^ p. 628.
- ^ "China" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed. 1878.
- ^ Sułek, Emilia Róża (2014), "Invisible Mongols: Observations from Fieldwork in Tibet" (PDF), A Window onto the Other: Contributions on the Study of the Mongolian, Turkic, and Manchu-Tungusic Peoples, Languages, and Cultures, Warsaw: University of Warsaw, p. 248.
- ^ "The source of the Yellow River" Archived November 20, 2008, at the Wayback Machine. Yellow River Conservancy Commission.
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