Khar-Us Lake ( mn, Хар-Ус нуур, Har-Us nuur; "Black-Aqua Lake", zh, 哈尔乌斯湖, 黑水湖) is a lake in western

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 million, ...

in the

Great Lakes Depression The Great Lakes Depression ( mn, Их нууруудын хотгор, ''Ikh Nuuruudyn Khotgor''), also called the Great Lakes' Hollow, is a large semi-arid depression in Mongolia that covers parts of the Uvs, Khovd, Bayan-Ölgii, Zavkhan and ...

. It is the upper one in a system of the interconnected lakes: Khar-Us,

Khar Khar may refer to: Places * Khar, Mumbai, a suburb of Mumbai, India * Khar, Punjab, a town in the Punjab Province, Pakistan * Khar, Bajaur, a town in the Bajaur Agency of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan * Khar, Nepal, a village ...

, Dörgön, Airag and Khyargas. The lake is located in

Har Us Nuur National Park Har Us Nuur National Park ( mn, Хар Ус Нуур) covers a chain of three large lakes in the Great Lakes Basin of western Mongolia. The lakes, Khar-Us Nuur, Khar Lake and Dörgön Lake are bordered by marshes and reed-beds that are an importa ...

. Its area value (1,852 km²) includes the island ''Agbash'' (or ''Ak-Bashi'', ''white head'') area (274 km²), so the water surface area is 1,578 km² only."Khar-Us Nuur"
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'' Some sources are using different Khar-Us Lake Lake statistics values:"Surface Water of Mongolia", Gombo Davaa, Dambaravjaa Oyunbaatar, Michiaki Sugita
/ref> *Water level: 1,160.08 m *Surface area: 1,496.6 km² *Average depth: 2.1 m *Volume: 3.12 km³. Primary

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is the

Khovd River Khovd River ( mn, Ховд гол, Howd gol, ) is a river in Mongolia. It flows from Tavan Bogd mountain of the Altai Mountains The Altai Mountains (), also spelled Altay Mountains, are a mountain range in Central and East Asia, where Russia ...

, which creates a large

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. So called

Genghis Khan's wall ''Chinggis Khaan'' ͡ʃʰiŋɡɪs xaːŋbr />Mongol script: ''Chinggis Qa(gh)an/ Chinggis Khagan'' , birth_name = Temüjin , successor = Tolui (as regent)Ögedei Khan , spouse = , issue = , house = Borjigin , ...

runs along the western shore of the Khar-Us Lake. It is possible to find it at the

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satellite maps .

References

Lakes of Mongolia Ramsar sites in Mongolia {{Mongolia-geo-stub