Kunlun Mountains

The Kunlun Mountains, Chinese Kunlun Shan or K’un-Lun Shan, are mountain machines of southern Central Asia. With a height of 6,860 meters, is a remote peak on the border between Xinjiang and Qinghai Province and the highest peak of the latter. The Kunluns make bigger west to east a few 1,250 miles (2,000 km), from the Pamirs in Tajikistan withinside the west to the Kunlun Pass and the adjoining degrees of crucial Qinghai province in China withinside the east—Burhan Budai, Bayan Har, and A’nyêmaqên (Amne Machin). The width of the Kunluns varies substantially however not often exceed a hundred twenty-five miles (two hundred km). In the western margins, they shape an Inner Asian rampant among the Plateau of Tibet and the Tarim (Talimu) Basin in western China. A northern fork of the Altun (Altyn Tagh) Mountains keeps this alignment.

The Kunlun Mountains shape part of that vicinity in Central Asia wherein there's best inner drainage, related especially with the Tarim and Qaidam basins to the north and the basins of the Plateau of Tibet to the south. Only the maximum easterly spurs of the mountain machine, in which the supply of the Huang He (Yellow River) is located, have drainage structures that are vacant into the ocean.

Height: 6,860 meters

Location: on the border between Xinjiang and Qinghai Province