Pangong Tso
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Pangong Tso or Pangong Lake (Tibetan: སྤང་གོང་མཚོ;[3] Chinese: 班公错; pinyin: Bān gōng cuò; Hindi: पैंगोंग झील, romanized: Paiṅgoṅg jhīl) is an endorheic lake spanning eastern Ladakh and West Tibet situated at an elevation of 4,225 m (13,862 ft). It is 134 km (83 mi) long and divided into five sublakes, called Pangong Tso, Tso Nyak, Rum Tso (twin lakes) and Nyak Tso. Approximately 50% of the length of the overall lake lies within Tibet administered by China, 40% in Indian-administered Ladakh, and the remaining 10% is disputed and is a de facto buffer zone between India and China. The lake is 5 km (3.1 mi) wide at its broadest point. All together it covers almost 700 km2. During winter the lake freezes completely, despite being saline water. It has a land-locked basin separated from the Indus River basin by a small elevated ridge, but is believed to have been part of the latter in prehistoric times.[4]
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Location | Leh district (Ladakh, India), Rutog County (Tibet, China) |
Coordinates | 33°43′04.59″N 78°53′48.48″E |
Type | Soda lake dimictic lake (east basin)[1] cold monomictic lake (west basin)[citation needed] |
Basin countries | China, India |
Max. length | 134 km (83 mi) |
Max. width | 5 km (3.1 mi) |
Surface area | approx. 700 km2 (270 sq mi) |
Max. depth | 330 ft. (100 m) |
Surface elevation | 4,225 metres (13,862 ft)[2] |
Frozen | during winter |
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Chinese name | |||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 班公錯 | ||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 班公错 | ||||||||
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Tibetan name | |||||||||
Tibetan | སྤང་གོང་མཚོ | ||||||||
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Tsomo Nganglha Ringpo | |||||||||
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Chinese name | |||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 錯木昂拉仁波 | ||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 錯木昂拉仁波 | ||||||||
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Tibetan name | |||||||||
Tibetan | མཚོ་མོ་ངང་ལྷ་རིང་པོ | ||||||||
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