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Greater Khingan

Mountain range in China

Summary

Mountain range in China

Field	Value
name	Greater Khingan Range
photo	File:Gegengol in Greater Khingan forest2017.jpg
native_name	zh
photo_caption	Forest in Genhe, Inner Mongolia
map	China
location	Located in Manchuria
elevation_m	2035
coordinates
type	Tilted block faulting

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The Greater Khingan Range or Da Hinggan Range (; IPA: ) is a 1200 km volcanic mountain range in the Inner Mongolia region of Northeast China. It was originally called the Xianbei Mountains, which later became the name of the northern branch of the Donghu, the Xianbei.

Geography

The range extends 1200 km from north to south. It is the watershed between the Nen and Songhua river systems to the east, and the Amur and its tributaries to the northwest.

Population

Its slopes are a relatively rich grazing area. The Khitan people lived on the eastern slopes

In fiction

The Greater Khingan Range is a key setting in the science fiction novel The Three-Body Problem (novel) by Chinese author Liu Cixin.

References

(28 December 2015). "The Greater Khingan range in winter". [[China Daily]].
''Hou Hanshu'' volume 90 "鮮卑者，亦東胡之支也，別依鮮卑山，故因號焉" "the Xianbei people branched off from the so-called 'Eastern Hu' and came to settle around Mt. Xianbei after which name they were designated" translated by Toh (2005)
''Weishu'' volume 1
Tseng, Chin Yin. (2012). "The Making of the Tuoba Northern Wei: Constructing Material Cultural Expressions in the Northern Wei Pingcheng Period (398–494 CE)". University of Oxford.
"Da Hinggan Range". [[Encyclopaedia Britannica]].
Mote, F.W.. (1999). "[[Imperial China: 900–1800]]". Harvard University Press.

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