Namtso
Salt lake in Damxung/Baingoin, Tibet Autonomous Region / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Namtso or Lake Nam (officially: Namco; Mongolian: Tenger nuur; Chinese: 纳木错; pinyin: Nàmù Cuò; Tibetan: གནམ་མཚོ་, ZYPY: Nam Co; “Heavenly Lake” in European literature: Tengri Nor, 30°42′N 90°33′E) is a mountain lake on the border between Damxung County of Lhasa prefecture-level city and Baingoin County of Nagqu Prefecture in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, approximately 112 kilometres (70 mi) NNW of Lhasa.
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Location | Damxung/Baingoin, Tibet Autonomous Region |
Coordinates | 30°42′N 90°33′E |
Type | salt lake |
Primary inflows | snow cover and spring of Tanggula Mountains |
Primary outflows | None (endorheic)[1] |
Basin countries | People's Republic of China |
Max. length | 70 km (43 mi) |
Max. width | 30 km (19 mi) |
Surface area | 1,920 km2 (740 sq mi) |
Average depth | 33 m (108 ft) |
Max. depth | 125 m (410 ft)[2] |
Water volume | 768 billion cubic metres (623×10 |
Surface elevation | 4,718 m (15,479 ft) |
Islands | 5 |
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Tibetan | གནམ་མཚོ་ | ||||||||||
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Traditional Chinese | 納木錯 | ||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 纳木错 | ||||||||||
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