Kunlun Mountains

The Kunlun Mountains constitute one of the longest mountain chains in , extending for more than 3,000 kilometres. In the broadest sense, the chain forms the northern edge of the Tibetan Plateau south of the .
Wikipedia
  • Type: Mountain with an elevation of 7,167 metres
  • Description: mountain range in China
  • Also known as: “Côn Lôn”, “Côn Luân”, “Gory Kuen‘ Lin’”, “K’un-lun Shan-mo”, “K’un-lun-shan Shan-mo”, “Keunlun”, “Khrebet Kuen‘-lun’”, “Khrebet Kun‘-lun’”, “Koenliun”, “Kouen Lun”, “Kuen Lun”, “Kuen-Lun”, “Kuen-lun Mountains”, “Kuen‘ Lin’ Mountains”, “Kuen‘-Lun’ Range”, “Kuenlun”, “Kuenlun Mountains”, “Kuenlun Shan”, “Kun Lun”, “Kun Luni”, “Kun-Lun”, “Kun-lun Gebirge”, “Kunlun Gebirge”, “Kunlun Ŝan”, “Kunlun Šan”, “Kunlun-Gebirge”, “Kunlun-šan”, “Kunlunbergen”, “Kunlunfjella”, “Kunlungebergte”, “Kunlunis”, “Kunluno”, “Kunluns”, “Kunlunshan”, “Kwen-lun”, “Montanhas Kunlun”, “Montes Kunlum”, “Montes Kunlun”, “Monts Kunlun”, “Muntanyes Kun Lun”, “Muntanyes Kunlun”, “Pegunungan Kwen-Lun”, “Куень-Лунь”, “Кульлунь”, “Кунлон”, “Кунь-лунь”, “كۇئېنلۇن تېغى”, “कुनलुन”, “कुनलुन पर्वत शृंखला”, “कुनलुन पर्वतों”, “कुनलुन शान”, “คุนหลุนชาน”, “곤륜산”, “곤륜산맥”, “쿤룬”, “쿤룬 산”, “쿤룬산”, “クンルン山脈”, “コンロン山脈”, “崑崙”, “昆仑山”, and “阿克山”

Kunlun Mountains

Latitude
36° north
Longitude
84° east
Elevation
7,167 metres (23,514 feet)
Open location code
8M862222+22
Geo­Names ID
1280792
Wiki­data ID
Q187871
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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”
  • Belarusian: “Куньлунь”
  • Bengali: “কুয়েনলুন পর্বতমালা”
  • Bhojpuri: “कुनलुन परबत”
  • Breton: “Kunlun”
  • Bulgarian: “Кунлун”
  • Catalan: “Kunlun”
  • Cebuano: “Kunlun Mountains”
  • Central Kurdish: “چیاکانی کونلون”
  • Chinese: “崑崙山脈”
  • Chinese: “昆仑山脉”
  • Croatian: “Kunlun”
  • Czech: “Kchun-lun-šan”
  • Dutch: “Kunlun”
  • Esperanto: “Kunlun”
  • Estonian: “Kunlun”
  • Finnish: “Kunlun”
  • French: “Cordillère du Kunlun”
  • Galician: “Kunlun”
  • Georgian: “კუნლუნი”
  • German: “Kunlun”
  • Greek: “Κουνλούν”
  • Hebrew: “הרי קונלון”
  • Hindi: “कुनलुन पर्वत”
  • Hungarian: “Kunlun”
  • Indonesian: “Pegunungan Kunlun”
  • Italian: “Kunlun”
  • Japanese: “崑崙山脈”
  • Javanese: “Pagunungan Kunlun”
  • Kannada: “ಕುನ್ಲುನ್ ಪರ್ವತಗಳು”
  • Kazakh: “Куньлунь”
  • Kirghiz: “Кунь-Лунь”
  • Korean: “쿤룬산맥”
  • Ladin: “Crëps de Kunlun”
  • Latin: “Cunlun”
  • Latvian: “Kuņluņs”
  • Literary Chinese: “崑崙山”
  • Lithuanian: “Kunlunas”
  • Macedonian: “Кунлун”
  • Malayalam: “കുൻലുൻ പർവ്വതനിരകൾ”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kunlun Shan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kunlunfjellene”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kunlun”
  • Norwegian: “Kunlunfjellene”
  • Ossetian: “Куньлунь”
  • Panjabi: “ਕੁਨਲੁਨ ਪਹਾੜ”
  • Persian: “کونلون”
  • Polish: “Kunlun”
  • Portuguese: “Cunlum”
  • Portuguese: “Kunlun”
  • Romanian: “Munții Kunlun”
  • Russian: “Куньлунь”
  • Scots: “Kunlun Muntains”
  • Serbian: “Kunlun”
  • Serbian: “Куенлуен”
  • Serbian: “Кунлун”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kunlun”
  • Sindhi: “ڪنلون جبلن جو سلسلو”
  • Slovak: “Kchun-lun”
  • Slovak: “Kunlun”
  • Slovenian: “Gorovje Kunlun”
  • Slovenian: “Kunlun”
  • Spanish: “Kunlun”
  • Swahili: “Milima ya Kunlun”
  • Swedish: “Kunlun”
  • Tamil: “குன்லுன் மலைத்தொடர்”
  • Tatar: “Куньлунь”
  • Telugu: “కున్ లున్ పర్వతాలు”
  • Thai: “เทือกเขาคุนหลุน”
  • Tibetan: “ཁུ་ནུ་རི་རྒྱུད།”
  • Turkish: “Kunlun Dağları”
  • Uighur: “كۇئېنلۇن تاغ تىزمىسى”
  • Ukrainian: “Куньлунь”
  • Urdu: “سلسلہ کوہ کونلون”
  • Uzbek: “Kunlun”
  • Venetian: “Kunlun”
  • 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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