Hengduan Mountains
The Hengduan Mountains are a group of mountain ranges in southwest China that connect the southeast portions of the Tibetan Plateau with the Yunnan–Guizhou Plateau.
Photo: NASA, Public domain.- Type: Mountain with an elevation of 2,021 metres
- Description: group of mountain ranges in southwest China
- Also known as: “Alpy Syczuańskie”, “Cheng-tuan Šan”, “Góry Sino-Tybetańskie”, “Góry Sinotybetańskie”, “Heng-tuan Shan”, “Heng-tuan Shan-mo”, “Hengduan-Gebirge”, “Hengduano Šano kalnai”, “Hengtuan-szan”, “Сычуаньские Альпы”, “Сычуаньскія Альпы”, “Хуандунь-Шань”, “横断山”, and “橫斷山”
Hengduan Mountains
- Categories: mountain range, temperate coniferous forest, and landform
- Location: Yunnan, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
27.5° or 27° 30′ north
Longitude
99° east
Elevation
2,021 metres (6,631 feet)
Open location code
7MVXG222+22
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In Other Languages
From Belarusian to Yakut—“Hengduan Mountains” goes by many names.
- Belarusian: “Сіна-Тыбецкія горы”
- Bulgarian: “Сино-Тибетски планини”
- Catalan: “Hengduan Shan”
- Cebuano: “Hengduan Shan”
- Chinese: “横断山脉”
- Chinese: “橫斷山脈”
- Czech: “Cheng-tuan-šan”
- Dutch: “Hengduan Shan”
- Dutch: “Hengduangebergte”
- Esperanto: “Montoj Hengduan”
- French: “monts Hengduan”
- French: “Monts Hengduan”
- Georgian: “ჩინეთ-ტიბეტის მთები”
- German: “Hengduan Shan”
- Hindi: “हेंगदान पर्वत”
- Hindi: “हेंगदुआन पहाड़ियाँ”
- Indonesian: “Pegunungan Hengduan”
- Italian: “monti Hengduan”
- Italian: “Monti Hengduan”
- Japanese: “横断山脈”
- Kannada: “ಹೆಂಗ್ಡುಯಾನ್ ಪರ್ವತಗಳು”
- Kazakh: “Сино-тибет тауы”
- Kazakh: “Сино-Тибет тауы”
- Korean: “헝돤산맥”
- Ladin: “Crëps de Hengduan”
- Lithuanian: “Hengduano kalnai”
- Macedonian: “Хенгдуан”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hengduanfjellene”
- Norwegian: “Hengduanfjellene”
- Polish: “Hengduan Shan”
- Russian: “Сино-Тибетские горы”
- Sanskrit: “हेङ्दुअन् पर्वतानि”
- Slovenian: “Hengduansko gorovje”
- Slovenian: “Pogorje Hengduan”
- Spanish: “Montañas Hengduan”
- Swedish: “Hengduan Shan”
- Thai: “เทือกเขาเหิงต้วน”
- Thai: “เทือกเขาเหิงตฺวั้น”
- Tibetan: “འཕྲེད་བཅད་རི་རྒྱུད”
- Turkish: “Hengduan Dağları”
- Ukrainian: “Гендуаншань”
- Uzbek: “Sina-tibet togʻlari”
- Uzbek: “Sino-Tibet togʻlari”
- Venetian: “Monti Hengduan”
- Vietnamese: “Dãy núi Hoành Đoạn”
- Wu Chinese: “横断山脉”
- Yakut: “Юннань хайата”
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