Hoh Xil
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"Kekexili" redirects here. For the film, see Kekexili: Mountain Patrol.
Hoh Xil or Kekexili (Mongolian for "Blue Ridge", also Aqênganggyai for "Lord of Ten Thousand Mountains"), is an isolated region in the northeastern part of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. On July 7, 2017, the Hoh Xil in Qinghai was listed among the UNESCO World Heritage Sites as "the largest and highest plateau in the world".[1]
Quick Facts UNESCO World Heritage Site, Location ...
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Location | Qinghai |
Criteria | Natural: (vii)(x) |
Reference | 1540 |
Inscription | 2017 (41st Session) |
Area | 3,735,632 ha (9,230,950 acres) |
Buffer zone | 2,290,904 ha (5,660,950 acres) |
Coordinates | 35°22′49″N 92°26′21″E |
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Quick Facts Chinese name, Simplified Chinese ...
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Chinese name | |||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 可可西里 | ||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 可可西里 | ||||||||||
Literal meaning | Blue ridge (in Mongolic) | ||||||||||
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Tibetan-origin name | |||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 阿卿贡嘉 | ||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 阿卿貢嘉 | ||||||||||
Literal meaning | Lord of ten thousand mountains | ||||||||||
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Tibetan name | |||||||||||
Tibetan | ཧོ་ཧོ་ཞི་ལི ཨ་ཆེན་གངས་རྒྱབ | ||||||||||
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Mongolian name | |||||||||||
Mongolian Cyrillic | Хөх шил | ||||||||||
Mongolian script | ᠬᠥᠬᠡ ᠰᠢᠯᠢ | ||||||||||
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