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Kunlun Mountains
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Kunlun Mountains

 or K'un-lun Mountains

Mountain system, east-central Asia. It extends for 1,250 mi (2,000 km) through the western regions of China. From the Pamirs of Tajikistan, it runs east along the border between Xinjiang and Tibet autonomous regions to the Sino-Tibetan ranges in Qinghai province. It divides the northern limit of the Plateau of Tibet from the interior plains of Central Asia. Its highest peak, Mount Muztag, measures 25,338 ft (7,723 m).
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The new maps showed a definitive boundary looping up from the Karakoram to the Kuenlun mountain range and back, so as to include within India the desolate, high-altitude Aksai Chin plateau.
China's "aggression in 1962" and the "Hindu bomb." by Maxwell, Neville / World Policy Journal
 
 
 
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