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The Wusun Mountains or Ketmen Mountains are a small range in the central part of the Tianshan Mountains. They lie north of the
Tekes River Tekes may refer to:
* Tekes (agency), the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation
* Tekes River in Kazakhstan and China, a tributary of the Ili River
* Tekes County in Xinjiang, China, on the eponymous river
* Tekes Town, the county se ...
valley and south of the main
Ili River
The Ili ( ug, ئىلى دەرياسى, Ili deryasi, Ili dəryasi, 6=Или Дәряси; kk, Ile, ; russian: Или; zh, c=伊犁河, p=Yīlí Hé, dng, Йили хә, Xiao'erjing: اِلِ حْ; mn, Ил, literally "Bareness") is a river sit ...
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
. The highest point is Baishi Peak (), about above sea level.
(140 BCE < 436 BCE): *''Ɂâ-sûn'') were an ancient semi- people. It is sometimes distinguished as particularly the Chinese part of the range, the Kazakh area being the
Ketmen Ridge
The Ketmen Ridge is a mountain range located in southern Kazakhstan, close to the borders of China and Kyrgyzstan. The ridge is within the territory of the China and Raiymbek districts of the Almaty region. It is located to the east of the Zailii ...
.
The mountains have also been known as the (russian: Каратау), (, "Black Mountain"), ( kk, Темирлик, "Iron-Bearing" or "Producing"), and (, "South" or "Southern Mountains")..