Loess Plateau
The Loess Plateau is a plateau in north-central China formed of loess, a clastic silt-like sediment formed by the accumulation of wind-blown dust. It is located southeast of the Gobi Desert and is surrounded by the Yellow River.
- Plateau with an elevation of around 1,460 metres (4,790 feet)
- Description: 640000 km² plateau around the Wei River valley and the southern half of the Ordos Loop of the Yellow River in central China, covering almost all of Shaanxi and Shanxi and parts of Gansu, Ningxia, and Inner Mongolia
- Also known as“Huang-t’u Kao-yüan”“Huangtu Gaoyuan”“Huangtu Plateau”“Yellow Earth Plateau”
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Latitude
37° north
Longitude
108° east
Open location code
8P9C2222+22
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Loess Plateau” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “هضبة اللوس”
- Armenian: “Լյոսային սարավանդ”
- Basque: “Loess goi-lautada”
- Belarusian: “Лёсавае плато”
- Bulgarian: “Льосово плато”
- Catalan: “Altiplà de Loess”
- Cebuano: “Huangtu Gaoyuan”
- Chinese: “黃土高原”
- Chinese: “黄土地”
- Chinese: “黄土高原”
- Czech: “Chuang-tchu Kao-jüan”
- Czech: “Severočínská hornatina”
- Czech: “Sprašová plošina”
- Dutch: “Loessplateau”
- Dutch: “Lössplateau”
- Esperanto: “Flavtera Altaĵo”
- Esperanto: “Leŭsa Altaĵo”
- Esperanto: “Leŭsa Altebenaĵo”
- French: “Plateau de Lœss”
- Georgian: “ლიოსის პლატო”
- German: “Huangtu gaoyuan”
- German: “Löss-Hochebene”
- German: “Löß-Hochebene”
- German: “Lössplateau”
- German: “Lößplateau”
- Greek: “οροπέδιο του κιτρινοχώματος”
- Hebrew: “רמת הלס”
- Hindi: “लोएस पठार”
- Indonesian: “Dataran Tinggi Loess”
- Italian: “Altopiano del Loes”
- Italian: “Altopiano del Loess”
- Japanese: “黄土高原”
- Kazakh: “Лёсс платосы”
- Korean: “황토 고원”
- Korean: “황투고원”
- Literary Chinese: “黃土高原”
- Lithuanian: “Liosinė plynaukštė”
- Lithuanian: “Lioso plynaukštė”
- Low German: “Huangtu gaoyuan”
- Low German: “Lössplateau”
- Macedonian: “Лесова Висорамнина”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Løssplatået”
- Norwegian: “Løssplatået”
- Polish: “Wyżyna Lessowa”
- Russian: “Лессовая равнина”
- Russian: “Лессовое плато”
- Slovak: “Severočínske vrchy”
- Slovenian: “Puhlična planota, Kitajska”
- Spanish: “Jaironese”
- Spanish: “Meseta de Loes”
- Swedish: “Lössplatån”
- Turkish: “Loess Platosu”
- Ukrainian: “Лесова рівнина”
- Ukrainian: “Лесове плато”
- Ukrainian: “Хуанту”
- Uzbek: “Lyossli Plato”
- Uzbek: “Lyossli tekislik”
- Vietnamese: “Cao nguyên Hoàng Thổ”
- Yue Chinese: “黃土高原”
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