Buir Lake ( mn, Буйр нуур, Buir nuur; ) is a
freshwater
Fresh water or freshwater is any naturally occurring liquid or frozen water containing low concentrations of dissolved salts and other total dissolved solids. Although the term specifically excludes seawater and brackish water, it does in ...
lake
A lake is an area filled with water, localized in a basin, surrounded by land, and distinct from any river or other outlet that serves to feed or drain the lake. Lakes lie on land and are not part of the ocean, although, like the much lar ...
that straddles the border between
Mongolia
Mongolia; Mongolian script: , , ; lit. "Mongol Nation" or "State of Mongolia" () is a landlocked country in East Asia, bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south. It covers an area of , with a population of just 3.3 millio ...
and
China. It lies within the Buir Lake Depression.
The Chinese city of
Hulunbuir
Hulunbuir or Hulun Buir ( mn, , ''Kölün buyir'', Mongolian Cyrillic: Хөлөнбуйр, ''Khölönbuir''; zh, s=呼伦贝尔, ''Hūlúnbèi'ěr'') is a region that is governed as a prefecture-level city in northeastern Inner Mongolia, China ...
is named after both this lake and
Hulun Lake
Hulun Lake (; mn, hölön nuur Хөлөн нуур, lit. ''foot lake'') or Dalai Nor ( mn, Dalai nuur Далай нуур, lit. ''ocean lake''), is a large lake in the Inner Mongolia region of northern China.
Geography
It is one of the five larg ...
, which lies entirely on the Chinese side of the border in
Inner Mongolia
Inner Mongolia, officially the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China. Its border includes most of the length of China's border with the country of Mongolia. Inner Mongolia also accounts for ...
.
In 1388, Ming forces under
Lan Yu won a
major victory over the Northern Yuan on the Buir Lake region. Northern Yuan ruler
Tögüs Temür tried to escape but was killed shortly afterwards.
[The Mongol empire & its legacy, by Reuven Amitai-Preiss, David Morgan, pg 293]
References
External links
*http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA03701
Lakes of Mongolia
Lakes of Inner Mongolia
China–Mongolia border
International lakes of Asia
Ramsar sites in Mongolia
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