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Hoh Xil

Hoh Xil
Tibetan-origin nameSimplified Chinese阿卿贡嘉Traditional Chinese阿卿貢嘉Literal meaningLord of ten thousand mountainsTibetan nameTibetanཧོ་ཧོ་ཞི་ལི
ཨ་ཆེན་གངས་རྒྱབ
Mongolian nameMongolian CyrillicХөх шилMongolian script

Hoh Xil or Kekexili (Mongolian for "Blue Ridge", also Aqênganggyai for "Lord of Ten Thousand Mountains") is an isolated region in the northeastern part of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. On July 7, 2017, the Hoh Xil in Qinghai was listed among the UNESCOWorld Heritage Sites as "the largest and highest plateau in the world".