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Kyrgyzstan

Tian Shan

The Tian Shan, also known as the Tengri Tagh or Tengir-Too, is a large system of mountain ranges in . The highest peak is at 7,439 metres high and located in Kyrgyzstan.
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  • Type: Mountain with an elevation of 5,784 metres
  • Description: Asian mountain range separating northwest China from Central Asia and Russia
  • Also known as: “Celestial Mountains”, “Heavenly Mountains”, “Mountains of Heaven”, “T’han-Shan”, “T’han-Shañ”, “T’ien-shan”, “T’ien-shan Mountains”, “T’ien-shan Range”, “T’ien-Shan Range”, “T’ien-shan Shan-mo”, “Tengir-Too”, “Tengri Tagh”, “Than-Shan”, “Thian Schan”, “Thian Shan”, “Tian Shan Mountains”, “Tian-Shan Range”, “Tianshan”, “Tianshan Mountains”, “Tianshan Range”, “Tien Mountains”, “Tien Range”, “Tien Shan Mountains”, “Tien-Shan”, “Tien-Shan Mountains”, “Tien-Shan Range”, and “Tyan‘ Shan’”

Tian Shan

Latitude
42° north
Longitude
80° east
Elevation
5,784 metres (18,976 feet)
Open location code
8MJ22222+22
Geo­Names ID
1489643
Wiki­data ID
Q5474
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Satellite Map

Discover Tian Shan from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Tian Shan” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Tiensjan”
  • Arabic: “الجبال السماوية”
  • Arabic: “تيان شان”
  • Arabic: “جبال تيان شان”
  • Armenian: “Տյան Շան”
  • Armenian: “Տյան-Շան”
  • Asturian: “Tian Shan”
  • Azerbaijani: “Tanrı Dağları”
  • Azerbaijani: “Tyanşan”
  • Bashkir: “Тәңре-Тау”
  • Bashkir: “Тәңретау”
  • Basque: “Tian Shan”
  • Belarusian: “Цянь-Шань”
  • Bengali: “থিয়েন শান পর্বতমালা”
  • Bhojpuri: “तियान शान”
  • Bulgarian: “Тян Шан”
  • Bulgarian: “Тяншан”
  • Catalan: “Tian Shan”
  • Cebuano: “Tien Shan”
  • Central Bikol: “Tian Shan”
  • Central Kurdish: “تیان شان”
  • Chechen: “Тянь-Шань”
  • Chinese: “Thian-san Soaⁿ-me̍h”
  • Chinese: “天山”
  • Chinese: “天山山脉”
  • Chinese: “天山山脈”
  • Chuvash: “Тянь-Шань”
  • Croatian: “Tanšan”
  • Czech: “Ťan-šan”
  • Danish: “Tian Shan”
  • Dutch: “Tiensjan”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جبال تيان شان”
  • Esperanto: “Tianŝan”
  • Esperanto: “Tianŝano”
  • Esperanto: “Tjanŝano”
  • Estonian: “Tian Shan”
  • Extremaduran: “Tian Shan”
  • Finnish: “Tienšan”
  • French: “monts Tian”
  • French: “Tian Shan”
  • Galician: “Tian Shan”
  • Georgian: “ტიან-შანი”
  • German: “Tian Shan”
  • German: “Tienschan”
  • German: “Tienshan”
  • Greek: “Τιαν Σαν”
  • Greek: “Τιεν Σαν”
  • Hausa: “Tian Shan”
  • Hebrew: “טיאן שאן”
  • Hebrew: “טיין שאן”
  • Hindi: “तियाँ शान”
  • Hungarian: “Tien-san”
  • Icelandic: “Tian Shan”
  • Indonesian: “Tian Shan”
  • Italian: “Tian Shan”
  • Italian: “Tien Shan”
  • Japanese: “天山山脈”
  • Kannada: “ಟೀಯೆನ್ ಷಾನ್”
  • Kazakh: “Алатау”
  • Kazakh: “Тәңір тауы”
  • Kazakh: “Тәңіртау”
  • Kazakh: “Тянь-Шань”
  • Kirghiz: “Ала-Тоо”
  • Kirghiz: “Теңир-Тоо”
  • Kirghiz: “Тянь-Шань”
  • Korean: “톈산 산맥”
  • Korean: “톈산산맥”
  • Ladin: “Crëps de Tianshan”
  • Ladin: “Tian Shan”
  • Latin: “Tian Schan”
  • Latvian: “Tjanšans”
  • Lithuanian: “Tian Šanis”
  • Macedonian: “Тианшан”
  • Macedonian: “Тјеншан”
  • Malay: “Tian Shan”
  • Malayalam: “ടിയാൻഷാൻ പർവതനിര”
  • Maltese: “Tian Shan”
  • Manchu: “ᡨᡳᠶᠠᠨ ᡧᠠᠨ ᠠᠯᡳᠨ”
  • Marathi: “थ्यॅन षान”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Thian-san Soaⁿ-me̍h”
  • Mongolian: “Тэнгэр Уул”
  • Northern Frisian: “Tian Shan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tian Shan”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tian Shan”
  • Norwegian: “Tian Shan”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Tian Shan”
  • Ossetian: “Тянь-Шань”
  • Persian: “تیان شان”
  • Polish: “Tien-szan”
  • Polish: “Tienszan”
  • Portuguese: “Tian Shan”
  • Romanian: “Tian-Șan”
  • Russian: “Тянь-Шань”
  • Rusyn: “Тянь-Шань”
  • Scots: “Tian Shan”
  • Serbian: “Tjen Šan”
  • Serbian: “Тјен Шан”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tanšan”
  • Sindhi: “تيان شان جبلن جو سلسلو”
  • Sindhi: “تيان شان”
  • Slovak: “Ťan-šan”
  • Slovak: “Ťanšan”
  • Slovenian: “Gorovje duhov”
  • Slovenian: “Nebeške Gore”
  • Slovenian: “Nebeško gorovje”
  • Slovenian: “Tian Šan”
  • Slovenian: “Tien Šan”
  • Slovenian: “Tien-šan”
  • Slovenian: “Tjan Šan”
  • Slovenian: “Tjanšan”
  • South Azerbaijani: “تانری داغلاری”
  • Spanish: “Cordillera de Tian Shan”
  • Spanish: “Tian Shan”
  • Swahili: “Tian Shan”
  • Swedish: “Tian Shan”
  • Swedish: “Tianshan”
  • Swedish: “Tien Shan”
  • Tagalog: “Tian Shan”
  • Tamil: “தியான் சான்”
  • Tatar: “Tän-Şän”
  • Tatar: “Тәңре таулары”
  • Tatar: “Тәңретау”
  • Tatar: “Тянь-Шань”
  • Thai: “เทียนชาน”
  • Turkish: “Tanrı Dağları”
  • Uighur: “Tengritagh”
  • Uighur: “تەڭرىتاغ”
  • Ukrainian: “Тянь-Шань”
  • Urdu: “تیان شان”
  • Uzbek: “Tyan-Shan”
  • Venetian: “Tien Šan”
  • Venetian: “Tien Shan”
  • Vietnamese: “Thiên Sơn”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tian Shan”
  • Welsh: “Tien Shan”
  • Western Panjabi: “تیان شان”
  • Wu Chinese: “天山”
  • Wu Chinese: “天山山脉”
  • Yakut: “Тянь-Шань”
  • Yue Chinese: “天山”
  • “तियान शान”

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