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Mount Erlang
Mount Erlang () is a mountain in Sichuan province, China. Located 50 kilometers west of Tianquan County, Sichuan, at an altitude of 3437 meters, and 172 kilometers away from Chengdu, it is the watershed of Qingyi River and Dadu River, which is the boundary of natural geography. The Mount Erlang Tunnel The Mount Erlang Tunnel is a road tunnel along Sichuan-Tibet Highway (China National Highway 318), which connects China's Sichuan Province and Tibet Autonomous Region. The tunnel is 4,176 meters long and was dug through Mount Erlang in Sichuan ... is a road tunnel that was dug through Mount Erlang. References Erlang {{China-mountain-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erlang Mountain Tunnel (G318)
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Erlang may refer to: Science and technology * Erlang (programming language), a programming language * Erlang (unit), a unit to measure traffic in telecommunications or other domains * Erlang distribution, a probability distribution describing the time between events Places * Mount Erlang, a mountain in China * Erlang railway station, on the Chinese Qinghai–Tibet Railway Other uses * Agner Krarup Erlang (1878–1929), mathematician and engineer after whom several concepts are named * Erlang Shen, a Chinese deity See also * Erlangen, Germany * Erlanger (other) Erlanger may refer to: * Erlanger (surname), a German surname * Erlanger, Kentucky, a city in the United States * Erlanger (crater), a lunar impact crater See also * Erlanger program, a mathematical research program proposed by Felix Klein in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sichuan
Sichuan (; zh, c=, labels=no, ; zh, p=Sìchuān; alternatively romanized as Szechuan or Szechwan; formerly also referred to as "West China" or "Western China" by Protestant missions) is a province in Southwest China occupying most of the Sichuan Basin and the easternmost part of the Tibetan Plateau between the Jinsha River on the west, the Daba Mountains in the north and the Yungui Plateau to the south. Sichuan's capital city is Chengdu. The population of Sichuan stands at 83 million. Sichuan neighbors Qinghai to the northwest, Gansu to the north, Shaanxi to the northeast, Chongqing to the east, Guizhou to the southeast, Yunnan to the south, and the Tibet Autonomous Region to the west. In antiquity, Sichuan was the home of the ancient states of Ba and Shu. Their conquest by Qin strengthened it and paved the way for Qin Shi Huang's unification of China under the Qin dynasty. During the Three Kingdoms era, Liu Bei's state of Shu was based in Sichuan. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People's Republic Of China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, most populous country, with a Population of China, population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and Borders of China, borders fourteen countries by land, the List of countries and territories by land borders, most of any country in the world, tied with Russia. Covering an area of approximately , it is the world's third List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country by total land area. The country consists of 22 provinces of China, provinces, five autonomous regions of China, autonomous regions, four direct-administered municipalities of China, municipalities, and two special administrative regions of China, Special Administrative Regions (Hong Kong and Macau). The national capital is Beijing, and the List of cities in China by population, most populous ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mountain
A mountain is an elevated portion of the Earth's crust, generally with steep sides that show significant exposed bedrock. Although definitions vary, a mountain may differ from a plateau in having a limited summit area, and is usually higher than a hill, typically rising at least 300 metres (1,000 feet) above the surrounding land. A few mountains are isolated summits, but most occur in mountain ranges. Mountains are formed through tectonic forces, erosion, or volcanism, which act on time scales of up to tens of millions of years. Once mountain building ceases, mountains are slowly leveled through the action of weathering, through slumping and other forms of mass wasting, as well as through erosion by rivers and glaciers. High elevations on mountains produce colder climates than at sea level at similar latitude. These colder climates strongly affect the ecosystems of mountains: different elevations have different plants and animals. Because of the less hospitable ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tianquan County
Tianquan County () is a county of Sichuan, Sichuan Province, China. It is under the administration of Ya'an City. In 1950, the county bore witness to the Battle of Tianquan, which resulted in the Communist Party of China, communists defeating the Kuomintang, nationalists. Climate References County-level divisions of Sichuan {{Sichuan-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chengdu
Chengdu (, ; simplified Chinese: 成都; pinyin: ''Chéngdū''; Sichuanese pronunciation: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: ), alternatively romanized as Chengtu, is a sub-provincial city which serves as the capital of the Chinese province of Sichuan. With a population of 20,937,757 inhabitants during the 2020 Chinese census, it is the fourth most populous city in China, and it is the only city apart from the four direct-administered municipalities with a population of over 20 million (the other three are Chongqing, Shanghai and Beijing). It is traditionally the hub in Southwest China. Chengdu is located in central Sichuan. The surrounding Chengdu Plain is known as the "Country of Heaven" () and the "Land of Abundance". Its prehistoric settlers included the Sanxingdui culture. The site of Dujiangyan, an ancient irrigation system, is designated as a World Heritage Site. The Jin River flows through the city. Chengdu's culture largely reflects that of its province, Sic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qingyi River (Sichuan)
Qingyi River ( Chinese: 青衣江) is a major river in western Sichuan. Qingyi means blueish-colored clothes. This name came from the local ancient kingdom Qingyi Qiang Kingdom (est. in 816 B.C.), in which notable people preferred to wear blue clothes. Qingyi River is the longest tributary of Dadu River, and it is also a major river in upper Yangtze River The Yangtze or Yangzi ( or ; ) is the longest river in Asia, the third-longest in the world, and the longest in the world to flow entirely within one country. It rises at Jari Hill in the Tanggula Mountains (Tibetan Plateau) and flow ... system. The elevation difference between its source and mouth is more than 5000 meters. Rivers of Sichuan {{China-river-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dadu River
The Dadu River (), known in Tibetan as the Gyelmo Ngul Chu, is a major river located primarily in Sichuan province, southwestern China. The Dadu flows from the eastern Tibetan Plateau into the Sichuan Basin where it joins with the Min River, a tributary of the Yangtze River. Measured from its geographic source, the Dadu is actually longer than the Min and thus forms the main stem of the Min River system. Shuangjiangkou Dam, expected to be the tallest dam in the world, is being built on the Dadu River. Geography Source The Dadu River originates, in name, in Danba and ends in Leshan where it meets the Min River. The true source of Dadu, and thus the entire Min River system, however, lies in Qinghai Province in the eastern Tibetan Plateau. In this region there are multiple headwaters of the Dadu with nearly identical lengths that have resulted in competing claims as the true source of the Dadu. In 2013, the China Academy of Sciences announced they had located the geographi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Erlang Tunnel
The Mount Erlang Tunnel is a road tunnel along Sichuan-Tibet Highway ( China National Highway 318), which connects China's Sichuan Province and Tibet Autonomous Region. The tunnel is 4,176 meters long and was dug through Mount Erlang in Sichuan Province. It opened on December 8, 1999. Construction took three years and cost 470 million yuan (56.6 million US dollars). It was built to reduce time and replaces one of the most dangerous parts of the highway, which had frequent accidents because of landslides, rain and foggy weather. New Tunnel Erlangshan extra-long tunnel under the same mountain was completed in 2018. It is a part of the Yakang Expressway and has a total length of 13 433 metres, making it the 11th longest road tunnel in the world as of 2021. The tunnel passes through several seismic fault zones and its deeperts parts are 1 500 metres underground. At its western end, the tunnel links up with the Xingkang Bridge The Xingkang Bridge or Luding Yaye Expressway B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
