Carte topographique Golmud

Altitude moyenne : 3 759 m

Altitude moyenne : 2 862 m

Orographically, the Qaidam Basin is a comparatively low area in the northeastern part of the Tibetan Plateau. With an elevation of around 3,000 m (10,000 ft), Qaidam forms a kind of shelf between Tibet to the south (around 4,300 m or 14,000 ft) and Gansu to the north (around 1,100 m or 3,500 ft). A low water…

Altitude moyenne : 2 742 m

Altitude moyenne : 3 493 m

Altitude moyenne : 2 815 m

Altitude moyenne : 2 990 m

Altitude moyenne : 3 759 m

Altitude moyenne : 3 154 m

Altitude moyenne : 3 759 m

Altitude moyenne : 4 743 m

Altitude moyenne : 4 377 m

Altitude moyenne : 2 877 m

Altitude moyenne : 3 566 m

Altitude moyenne : 2 691 m

The city was a commercial hub along the Northern Silk Road's Hexi Corridor for over 2000 years, and was a stronghold of the Han, Sui, Tang, and Song dynasties' resistance against nomadic attacks from the west. Although long a part of Gansu province, Xining was added to Qinghai in 1928. Xining holds sites of…

Altitude moyenne : 2 505 m

Altitude moyenne : 4 248 m

Altitude moyenne : 3 349 m

The lay of the land of the prefecture is largely determined by the Amne Machin mountain range (max elevation 6,282 m), which runs in the general northwest- to-southeast direction across the entire prefecture, and beyond. The existence of the ridge results in one of the great bends of the Yellow River, which…

Altitude moyenne : 4 340 m

Altitude moyenne : 4 268 m

The lay of the land of the prefecture is largely determined by the Amne Machin mountain range (max elevation 6,282 m), which runs in the general northwest- to-southeast direction across the entire prefecture, and beyond. The existence of the ridge results in one of the great bends of the Yellow River, which…

Altitude moyenne : 4 101 m

The region covers 83,000 square kilometres at an average elevation of 4,800 metres above sea level, stretches in a meridional (east-west) direction between the Tanggula and Kunlun mountain chains in the border areas of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, northwest China's Qinghai Province and China's…

Altitude moyenne : 4 768 m

Altitude moyenne : 4 138 m

Altitude moyenne : 3 400 m

Altitude moyenne : 3 926 m

Altitude moyenne : 2 256 m