Tian Shan
The Tian Shan, also known as the Tengri Tagh or Tengir-Too, is a large system of mountain ranges in Central Asia. The highest peak is Jengish Chokusu at 7,439 metres high and located in Kyrgyzstan.
Photo: NASA, Public domain.- 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”, “Gorovje duhov”, “Heavenly Mountains”, “monts Tian”, “Mountains of Heaven”, “Nebeške Gore”, “Nebeško gorovje”, “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”, “Teñir-Too”, “Than-Shan”, “Thian Schan”, “Thian Shan”, “Tian Šan”, “Tian Shan Mountains”, “Tian-Shan Range”, “Tianŝano”, “Tianshan Mountains”, “Tianshan Range”, “Tien Mountains”, “Tien Range”, “Tien Shan Mountains”, “Tien-šan”, “Tien-Shan”, “Tien-Shan Mountains”, “Tien-Shan Range”, “Tjan Šan”, “Tyan‘ Shan’”, “Τιαν Σαν”, “Ала-Тоо”, “Тәңіртау”, “Тәңре таулары”, and “الجبال السماوية”
Tian Shan
- Categories: mountain range and landform
- Location: Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia, Asia
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Latitude
42° north
Longitude
80° east
Elevation
5,784 metres (18,976 feet)
Open location code
8MJ22222+22
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Tian Shan” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Tiensjan”
- 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: “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: “Tjanŝano”
- Estonian: “Tian Shan”
- Extremaduran: “Tian Shan”
- Finnish: “Tienšan”
- French: “Tian Shan”
- Galician: “Tian Shan”
- Georgian: “ტიან-შანი”
- German: “Tian Shan”
- German: “Tienschan”
- German: “Tienshan”
- Greek: “Τιεν Σαν”
- Hausa: “Tian Shan”
- Hebrew: “טיאן שאן”
- Hebrew: “טיין שאן”
- Hindi: “तियाँ शान”
- Hungarian: “Tien-san”
- Icelandic: “Tian Shan”
- Indonesian: “Tian Shan”
- Interlingue: “Tian Shan”
- Italian: “Tian Shan”
- Italian: “Tien Shan”
- Japanese: “天山山脈”
- Kannada: “ಟೀಯೆನ್ ಷಾನ್”
- Karachay-Balkar: “Тянь-Шань”
- Kazakh: “Алатау”
- Kazakh: “Тәңір тауы”
- 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: “Tjanšan”
- South Azerbaijani: “تانری داغلاری”
- Spanish: “Cordillera de Tian Shan”
- Spanish: “Tian Shan”
- Swahili: “Tian Shan”
- Swedish: “Tian Shan”
- Swedish: “Tianshan”
- Tagalog: “Tian Shan”
- Tamil: “தியான் சான்”
- Tatar: “Tän-Şän”
- Tatar: “Тәңретау”
- 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 Frisian: “Tian Shan-berchtme”
- 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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