Bayan Har Mountains

Bayan Har Mountains
Bayan Har Mountains
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	巴顏喀拉山脈
Simplified Chinese	巴颜喀拉山脉
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Bāyánkālā Shānmài
Wade–Giles	Pa-yan-k‘a-la Shan-mai
IPA	[pá.jɛ̌n.kʰá.lá ʂán.mâi]
Tibetan name
Tibetan	བ་ཡན་ཁ་ལ་རག་མོ
Mongolian name
Mongolian Cyrillic	Баянхар уул
Mongolian script	ᠪᠠᠶᠠᠨ‎ᠬᠠᠷ᠎ᠠ ᠠᠭᠤᠯᠠ

Bayan Har Mountains
Bayan Har Mountains
	Yaonü lake
Highest point
Elevation	5,266 m (17,277 ft)
Geography
Location	Qinghai, China

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 in the basin of , which is located in the northern part of the range.^[4]

Notes[]

^ Formerly also 巴颜喀喇山脉.^[1]

References[]

^ 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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Coordinates: 34°42′N 98°13′E / 34.700°N 98.217°E / 34.700; 98.217

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[2] Formerly also 巴颜喀喇山脉.^[1]

[1] . 628.

[3] "China" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed. 1878.

[4] 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.

[5] "The source of the Yellow River" Archived November 20, 2008, at the Wayback Machine. Yellow River Conservancy Commission.

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v t Mountain ranges of China
Geography of China
Northwest China	Altai Mountains Dzungarian Alatau Tian Shan Borohoro Mountains Tarbagatai Mountains Kunlun Mountains Altyn-Tagh Qilian Mountains Helan Mountains Liupan Mountains
Qinghai-Tibet and Southwest China	Himalayas Transhimalaya Pamir Mountains Karakoram Argu Tagh Yengisogat Kunlun Mountains Hoh Xil Bayan Har Mountains Amne Machin Tanggula Mountains Nyenchen Tanglha Mountains Hengduan Mountains Gaoligong Mountains Yunling Mountains Ailao Mountains Qionglai Mountains Daxue Mountains Min Mountains
Northeast China	Greater Khingan Lesser Khingan Changbai Mountains Wanda Mountains Qian Mountains
North and East China	Yin Mountains Lang Mountains Lüliang Mountains Taihang Mountains Zhongtiao Mountains Mount Tai Tianmu Mountain Yandang Mountains Wuyi Mountains
Central China	Qinling Daba Mountains Dabie Mountains Wudang Mountains Jingshan Mountains Luoxiao Mountains Jiuling Mountains Mufu Mountains Wugong Mountains Huangshan Wuling Mountains Xuefeng Mountains
South China	Cang Mountain Daliang Mountains Dalou Mountains Nanling Mountains Jiuyi Mountains Yuecheng Mountains Longmen Mountains Western Mountains
Landforms of China