Gyaring Lake
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Gyaring Lake（) or Zhaling Lake is a large freshwater lake in the Yellow River
catchment in China
, it is in the southeast of Qinghai Province.The name of lake means "Long Grey Lake" in Tibetan language
. Gyaring Lake is 526 km 2, with a drainage area of 8161 km 2, an elevation of 4292 m, length 35 km and mean width 15 km (max 21.6 m).
Yellow River
The Yellow River or Huang He, formerly known as the Hwang Ho, is the second-longest river in China and the sixth-longest in the world at the estimated length of . Originating in the Bayan Har Mountains in Qinghai Province in western China, it flows through nine provinces of China and empties into...
catchment in China
China
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, it is in the southeast of Qinghai Province.The name of lake means "Long Grey Lake" in Tibetan language
Tibetan language
The Tibetan languages are a cluster of mutually-unintelligible Tibeto-Burman languages spoken primarily by Tibetan peoples who live across a wide area of eastern Central Asia bordering the Indian subcontinent, including the Tibetan Plateau and the northern Indian subcontinent in Baltistan, Ladakh,...
. Gyaring Lake is 526 km 2, with a drainage area of 8161 km 2, an elevation of 4292 m, length 35 km and mean width 15 km (max 21.6 m).