Bayan Har Mountains

Bayan Har Mountains
Bayan Har Mountains
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	Ba nhan rắc núi non
Simplified Chinese	Ba nhan rắcNúi non
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Bāyánkālā Shānmài
Wade–Giles	Pa-yan-k‘a-la Shan-mai
IPA	[pá.jɛ̌n.kʰá.lá ʂán.mâɪ]
Tibetan name
Tibetan	བ་ཡན་ཁ་ལ་རག་མོ
Mongolian name
Mongolian Cyrillic	Баянхаруул
Mongolian script	ᠪᠠᠶᠠᠨ‎ᠬᠠᠷ᠎ᠠ ᠠᠭᠤᠯᠠ

Bayan Har Mountains
Bayan Har Mountains
	Yaonü Lake, Nianbaoyuze Geopark,Jigzhi County,Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.
Geography
Location	Qinghai,China

TheBayan Har Mountains,formerly known as theBayen-káras^[2]orBayan-Kara-Ula,are a mountain range inQinghai Province,northwest China. The name isMongolianfor "Rich and Black".^[3]It can be viewed as one of the branches of theKunlun Mountains.It separates the drainage areas of both theYellowand theYangtzerivers. The source of the Yellow River is theYueguzonglie Basin(Gyaring-NgoringLakes), which is located in the northern part of the range.^[4]

In Popular Culture[edit]

The wizard Shang Ko inBarbara Hambly's fantasyBride of the Rat God(1994) is described by his grandson as "the greatest of the mages of China, the last of the line of sorcerers of the Bayan Har Shan".

The Bayan Har mountain range is also mentioned in the first episode of the animeRanma ½(1989), based on themangaseries byRumiko Takahashi,whenRanmaand his father take a trip through China in order to perfect their martial training.

Notes[edit]

^Formerly alsoBa nhan khách rầm Núi non.^[1]

References[edit]

^p. 628.
^"China" in theEncyclopædia Britannica,9th ed. 1878.
^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.
^"The source of the Yellow River"ArchivedNovember 20, 2008, at theWayback Machine.Yellow River Conservancy Commission.

External links[edit]

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[2] Formerly alsoBa nhan khách rầm Núi non.^[1]

[1] . 628.

[3] "China" in theEncyclopædia Britannica,9th ed. 1878.

[4] 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.

[5] "The source of the Yellow River"ArchivedNovember 20, 2008, at theWayback Machine.Yellow River Conservancy Commission.

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v t e Mountain ranges of China
Geography of China
Northwestern	Altai Mountains Dzungarian Alatau Tian Shan Borohoro Mountains Tarbagatai Mountains Kunlun Mountains Altyn-Tagh Qilian Mountains Helan Mountains Liupan Mountains
Qinghai-Tibet andSouthwestern	Himalayas Transhimalaya Pamir Mountains Karakoram Argu Tagh Yengisogat Kunlun Mountains Hoh Xil Bayan Har Mountains Amne Machin Tanggula Mountains Nyenchen Tanglha Mountains Hengduan Mountains Gaoligong Mountains Yunling Mountains Ailao Mountains Qionglai Mountains Daxue Mountains Min Mountains
Northeast	Greater Khingan Lesser Khingan Changbai Mountains Wanda Mountains Qian Mountains
NorthandEast	Yin Mountains Lang Mountains Lüliang Mountains Taihang Mountains Zhongtiao Mountains Mount Tai Tianmu Mountain Yandang Mountains Wuyi Mountains
Central	Qinling Daba Mountains Dabie Mountains Wudang Mountains Jingshan Mountains Luoxiao Mountains Jiuling Mountains Mufu Mountains Wugong Mountains Huangshan Wuling Mountains Xuefeng Mountains
South	Cang Mountain Daliang Mountains Dalou Mountains Nanling Mountains Jiuyi Mountains Yuecheng Mountains Longmen Mountains Western Mountains
Landforms of China