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Langak

or Rakas, a lake in the southwest of the Tibetan upland, in China. The lake is situated at an altitude of 4,541 m, in a mountain valley between the Great Himalaya and Kailas ranges; it is 28 km long and up to 14 km wide, with an area of 360 sq km. During high-water periods the waters of Lake Lan-gak and of Lake Manasarowar, which is at a higher elevation, flow into the Sutlej River (Indus Basin).

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The lakes Mapham and Langak narrow without shortening the valley of Kangri.

White River) from the Indian Himalaya on the S., the Ser-Chu (Gold River) or other streams from the mountains of Kangri on the N., and the effluence from the lakes Mapham and Langak on the E.; the two first being permanent, and the last partial or intermittent; and besides these, there is the dormant drainage of the Horba basin, which stagnates in the Lake of Konkyu on the extreme S.E.

The north-western half of the same basin comprises the greater part of Kangri, and contains the Tso Mapham, or Indian Manasarowar, and the Tso Langak (or Oma Tso, i.

Physical Geography of Western Tibet

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