Kunlun Mountains
The Kunlun Mountains constitute one of the longest mountain chains in Asia, extending for more than 3,000 kilometres. In the broadest sense, the chain forms the northern edge of the Tibetan Plateau south of the Tarim Basin.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Mountain with an elevation of 7,167 metres
- Description: mountain range in China
- Also known as: “Gory Kuen‘ Lin’”, “K’un-lun Shan-mo”, “K’un-lun-shan Shan-mo”, “Keunlun”, “Khrebet Kuen‘-lun’”, “Khrebet Kun‘-lun’”, “Koenliun”, “Kuen-Lun”, “Kuen-lun Mountains”, “Kuen‘ Lin’ Mountains”, “Kuen‘-Lun’ Range”, “Kuenlun Mountains”, “Kuenlun Shan”, “Kun Luni”, “Kun-lun Gebirge”, “Kunlun”, “Kunlun Gebirge”, “Kunluns”, and “Kwen-lun”
Kunlun Mountains
- Categories: mountain range and landform
- Location: China, East Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Kunlun Mountains” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Kunlun”
- Arabic: “جبال كونلون”
- Armenian: “Կունլուն”
- Asturian: “Kunlun”
- Azerbaijani: “Kunlun dağları”
- Bashkir: “Куньлунь”
- Basque: “Kunlun mendiak”
- Basque: “Kunlun”
- Belarusian: “Куньлунь”
- Bengali: “কুয়েনলুন পর্বতমালা”
- Bhojpuri: “कुनलुन परबत”
- Breton: “Kunlun”
- Bulgarian: “Кунлон”
- Bulgarian: “Кунлун”
- Catalan: “Kunlun Shan”
- Catalan: “Kunlun”
- Catalan: “Muntanyes Kun Lun”
- Catalan: “Muntanyes Kunlun”
- Cebuano: “Kunlun Mountains”
- Central Kurdish: “چیاکانی کونلون”
- Chinese: “崑崙”
- Chinese: “崑崙山”
- Chinese: “崑崙山脈”
- Chinese: “昆仑山”
- Chinese: “昆仑山脉”
- Chinese: “阿克山”
- Croatian: “Kunlun”
- Czech: “Kchun-lun-šan”
- Czech: “Kchun-lun”
- Czech: “Kunlun Shan”
- Czech: “Kunlun-šan”
- Dutch: “Kuen Lun”
- Dutch: “Kun Lun”
- Dutch: “Kunlun Shan”
- Dutch: “Kunlun”
- Dutch: “Kunlungebergte”
- Esperanto: “Kunlun Ŝan”
- Esperanto: “Kunlun”
- Esperanto: “Kunluno”
- Estonian: “Kunlun”
- Finnish: “Kunlun”
- French: “Cordillère du Kunlun”
- French: “Kouen Lun”
- French: “Kunlun Shan”
- French: “Kunlun”
- French: “Monts Kunlun”
- Galician: “Kunlun”
- Georgian: “კუნლუნი”
- German: “Kuenlun”
- German: “Kunlun Shan”
- German: “Kunlun-Gebirge”
- German: “Kunlun”
- German: “Kunlunshan”
- Greek: “Κουνλούν”
- Hebrew: “הרי קונלון”
- Hindi: “कुनलुन पर्वत शृंखला”
- Hindi: “कुनलुन पर्वत”
- Hindi: “कुनलुन पर्वतों”
- Hindi: “कुनलुन शान”
- Hindi: “कुनलुन”
- Hungarian: “Kunlun”
- Indonesian: “Pegunungan Kunlun”
- Indonesian: “Pegunungan Kwen-Lun”
- Italian: “Kunlun Shan”
- Italian: “Kunlun”
- Japanese: “クンルン山脈”
- Japanese: “コンロン山脈”
- Japanese: “崑崙山脈”
- Javanese: “Pagunungan Kunlun”
- Javanese: “Pegunungan Kunlun”
- Kannada: “ಕುನ್ಲುನ್ ಪರ್ವತಗಳು”
- Kazakh: “Куньлунь”
- Kirghiz: “Кунь-Лунь”
- Korean: “곤륜산”
- Korean: “곤륜산맥”
- Korean: “쿤룬 산”
- Korean: “쿤룬”
- Korean: “쿤룬산”
- Korean: “쿤룬산맥”
- Ladin: “Crëps de Kunlun”
- Latin: “Cunlun”
- Latvian: “Kuņluņs”
- Literary Chinese: “崑崙山”
- Lithuanian: “Kunlunas”
- Lithuanian: “Kunlunis”
- Macedonian: “Кунлун”
- Malayalam: “കുൻലുൻ പർവ്വതനിരകൾ”
- Northern Frisian: “Kunlun Shan”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kunlun Shan”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kunlun”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kunlunfjella”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kunlunfjellene”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kunlun”
- Norwegian: “Kunlunfjellene”
- Ossetian: “Куньлунь”
- Panjabi: “ਕੁਨਲੁਨ ਪਹਾੜ”
- Persian: “کونلون”
- Polish: “Kun Lun”
- Polish: “Kun-Lun”
- Polish: “Kunlun Shan”
- Polish: “Kunlun”
- Portuguese: “Cunlum”
- Portuguese: “Kun Lun”
- Portuguese: “Kunlun”
- Portuguese: “Montanhas Kunlun”
- Portuguese: “Montes Kunlum”
- Portuguese: “Montes Kunlun”
- Romanian: “Munții Kunlun”
- Russian: “Кунь-лунь”
- Russian: “Куньлунь”
- Scots: “Kunlun Muntains”
- Serbian: “Kunlun”
- Serbian: “Куенлуен”
- Serbian: “Кунлун”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kunlun”
- Slovak: “Kchun-lun”
- Slovak: “Kunlun”
- Slovenian: “Gorovje Kunlun”
- Slovenian: “Kunlun Šan”
- Slovenian: “Kunlun”
- Spanish: “Kunlun”
- Spanish: “Montes Kunlun”
- Swahili: “Milima ya Kunlun”
- Swedish: “Kuenlun”
- Swedish: “Kunlun Shan”
- Swedish: “Kunlun”
- Swedish: “Kunlunbergen”
- Tamil: “குன்லுன் மலைத்தொடர்”
- Tatar: “Куньлунь”
- Thai: “คุนหลุนซาน”
- Thai: “เทือกเขาคุนลุ้น”
- Thai: “เทือกเขาคุนหลุน”
- Thai: “ภูเขาคุนหลุนชาน”
- Tibetan: “ཁུ་ནུ་རི་རྒྱུད།”
- Turkish: “Kunlun Dağları”
- Uighur: “كۇئېنلۇن تاغ تىزمىسى”
- Uighur: “كۇئېنلۇن تېغى”
- Ukrainian: “Куень-Лунь”
- Ukrainian: “Кульлунь”
- Ukrainian: “Кунь-Лунь”
- Ukrainian: “Куньлунь”
- Urdu: “سلسلہ کوہ کونلون”
- Uzbek: “Kuen-Lun”
- Uzbek: “Kunlun”
- Venetian: “Kunlun”
- Vietnamese: “Côn Lôn”
- Vietnamese: “Côn Luân”
- Vietnamese: “Dãy núi Côn Lôn”
- Western Panjabi: “کونلون پہاڑ”
- Wu Chinese: “昆仑山脉”
- Yue Chinese: “崑崙山”
- “कुनलुन परबत”
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