Yellow RiverThe Yellow River, also known as Huanghe, is the second-longest river in China and the sixth-longest river system on Earth, with an estimated length of 5,464 km (3,395 mi) and a drainage basin of 795,000 km (307,000 sq mi). Beginning in the Bayan Har Mountains, the river flows generally eastwards before entering the 1,500 km (930 mi) long Ordos Loop, which runs northeast at Gansu through the Ordos Plateau and turns east in Inner Mongolia.
NingxiaOfficial nameSimplified Chinese宁夏回族自治区Traditional Chinese寧夏回族自治區Xiao'erjingنِئٍثِيَا خُوِزُو زِجِٿِيُوِHanyu PinyinNíngxià Huízú ZìzhìqūPostalNingsia Hui Autonomous RegionNingxia, officially the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (NHAR), is an autonomous region in Northwestern China.
ShaanxiShaanxi is a province in Northwestern China. It borders the province-level divisions of Inner Mongolia to the north; Shanxi and Henan to the east; Hubei, Chongqing, and Sichuan to the south; and Gansu and Ningxia to the west. Shaanxi covers an area of over 205,000 km (79,000 sq mi) with about 37 million people, the 16th-largest in China.
GansuProvince in Northwestern ChinaProvince in ChinaTibetan nameTibetanཀན་སུའུ་ཞིང་ཆེན།Mongolian nameMongolian CyrillicГаньсү мужMongolian scriptᠭᠠᠨᠰᠤ ᠮᠤᠵᠢUyghur nameUyghurگەنسۇ ئۆلكىسىKazakh nameKazakhگانسۋ ولكەسىГаньсу өлкесіGansu ölkesiGansu is a province in Northwestern China. Its capital and largest city is Lanzhou, in the southeastern part of the province.
ChinaCountry in East AsiaChina, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is divided into 33 province-level divisions, including two special administrative regions. Beijing is the capital, while Shanghai is the most populous city by urban area. Its geography features the Central Plain, major rivers such as the Yangtze and Yellow River, deserts, subtropical and temperate forests, plateaus, and mountain ranges such as the Himalayas.
Inner MongoliaAutonomous region of ChinaAutonomous region in ChinaInner Mongolia Autonomous RegionSimplified Chinese内蒙古自治区Traditional Chinese內蒙古自治區Hanyu PinyinNèiměnggǔ ZìzhìqūMongolian nameMongolian CyrillicӨвөр МонголMongolian scriptᠦᠪᠦᠷᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯUyghur nameUyghurئىچكى موڭغۇل ئاپتونوم رايونىManchu nameManchu scriptᡩᠣᡵᡤᡳᠮᠣᠩᡤᠣRomanizationDorgi monggoBuryat nameBuryatҮбэр МонголÜber MongolKyrgyz nameKyrgyzىچكى مونعولىياIchki MongoliaKazakh nameKazakhىشكى موڭعولياIşkı MoñğoliaTuvan nameTuvanÖvür Mool oranӨвүр Моол оранStandard Tibetan nameStandard Tibetanནང་སོག་རང་སྐྱོང་ལྗོངས།Inner Mongolia, officially the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (IMAR), is an autonomous region of China.
ShanxiProvince in North ChinaProvince in ChinaShanxi is a province in North China. Its capital and largest city is Taiyuan, and its next most populated prefecture-level cities are Changzhi and Datong. The province's one-character abbreviation is 晋 (Jìn), after the state of Jin that existed there during the Spring and Autumn period (c. 770 – c. 481 BC).
Tarim BasinEndorheic basin in Xinjiang, ChinaNanjiangChinese南疆Literal meaningSouthern XinjiangUyghur nameUyghurتارىم ئويمانلىقىThe Tarim Basin is an endorheic basin in Xinjiang, Northwestern China, occupying an area of about 888,000 km (343,000 sq mi) and the largest basin in Northwest China.HighlandHighlands or uplands are areas of high elevation such as a mountainous region, elevated mountainous plateau or high hills. Generally, upland refers to a range of hills, typically from 300 m (980 ft) up to 600 m (2,000 ft), while highland is usually reserved for ranges of low mountains. However, the two terms are interchangeable and also include regions that are transitional between hilly and mountainous terrain.
Provinces of ChinaTibetan nameTibetanཞིང་ཆེན།Zhuang nameZhuangSwngjKorean nameHangul성Mongolian nameMongolian CyrillicмужMongolian scriptᠮᠤᠵᠢUyghur nameUyghurئۆلكەManchu nameManchu scriptᡤᠣᠯᠣMöllendorffgoloKazakh nameKazakhولكەөлкеölkeKyrgyz nameKyrgyzۅلكۅөлкөölköProvinces (Chinese: 省; pinyin: Shěng) are the most numerous type of province-level divisions, the first-level subdivisions of the People's Republic of China (PRC).
Sedimentary basinSedimentary basins are region-scale depressions of the Earth's crust where subsidence has occurred and a thick sequence of sediments have accumulated to form a large three-dimensional body of sedimentary rock. They form when long-term subsidence creates a regional depression that provides accommodation space for accumulation of sediments.
ElevationThe elevation of a geographiclocation is its height above or below a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotentialgravitationalsurface (see Geodetic datum § Vertical datum).
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