Bayan Har Mountains

The Bayan Har Mountains, formerly known as the Bayen-káras[2] or Bayan-Kara-Ula, are a mountain range in Qinghai Province. 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 Yueguzonglie, which is located in the northern part of the range.[4]

"Bayankala" redirects here. For the skincare line, see Bayankala (skincare).
Bayan Har Mountains
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese巴顏喀拉山脈
Simplified Chinese巴颜喀拉山脉[lower-alpha 1]
Tibetan name
Tibetanབ་ཡན་ཁ་ལ་རག་མོ
Mongolian name
Mongolian CyrillicБаянхар уул
Mongolian scriptᠪᠠᠶᠠᠨ‎ᠬᠠᠷ᠎ᠠ ᠠᠭᠤᠯᠠ

Notes
  1. Formerly also 巴颜喀喇山脉.[1]
gollark: _frantically adjusts Wants text_
gollark: I'll just go unname my aethers and stick them up, what could go wrong.
gollark: Assuming the laws of multiplication and wild random guessing hold true, I can put up four and get a gold?
gollark: _ponders sticking up spare aethers now_
gollark: Madness.

References
  1. p. 628.
  2. "China" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed. 1878.
  3. 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.
  4. "The source of the Yellow River" Archived November 20, 2008, at the Wayback Machine. Yellow River Conservancy Commission.


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