| Namtso / Namco | |
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 View of the lake and the holy rock near the Tashi Dor monastery (2005) | |
  Namtso / Namco | |
 Relief map. Lhasa is the area marked in red at the bottom. | |
| Location | Damxung/Baingoin, Tibet Autonomous Region |
| Coordinates | 30°42′N 90°33′E / 30.700°N 90.550°E |
| Type | salt lake |
| Primary inflows | snow cover and spring of Tanggula Mountains |
| Primary outflows | None (endorheic)[1] |
| Basin countries | People's Republic of China |
| Max. length | 70 km (43 mi) |
| Max. width | 30 km (19 mi) |
| Surface area | 1,920 km2 (740 sq mi) |
| Average depth | 33 m (108 ft) |
| Max. depth | 125 m (410 ft)[2] |
| Water volume | 768 billion cubic metres (623×106 acre⋅ft) |
| Surface elevation | 4,718 m (15,479 ft) |
| Islands | 5 |
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| Tibetan name | |||||||||||
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| Tibetan | གནམ་མཚོ་ | ||||||||||
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| Chinese name | |||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 納木錯 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 纳木错 | ||||||||||
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Namtso or Lake Nam (officially: Namco; Mongolian: Tenger nuur; Chinese: 纳木错; pinyin: Nàmù Cuò; Tibetan: གནམ་མཚོ་, ZYPY: Nam Co; “Heavenly Lake” in European literature: Tengri Nor, 30°42′N 90°33′E / 30.700°N 90.550°E) is a mountain lake on the border between Damxung County of Lhasa prefecture-level city and Baingoin County of Nagqu Prefecture in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, approximately 112 kilometres (70 mi) NNW of Lhasa.