The Sarikol Range ( Russian : Сарыкольский хребет ; Chinese : 萨雷阔勒岭, 色勒库尔山脉 ; Tajik : Рашти Куҳи Сариқӯл ) is a mountain range in the Pamirs on the border of Tajikistan and the People's Republic of China .
5-586: Sarikol , Sariqol , or Sarykol from Turkic languages meaning "yellow lake" may refer to: Sarikol Range , a mountain range on the border with Tajikistan and China Tashkurgan , a town in Xinjiang, China that historically was also known as Sarikol Sarikol kingdom , a historical kingdom of the Pamir Mountains, mentioned in Chinese records, whose capital
10-531: The local people who are historically known as Sarikolis ; the local Sarikoli language and Tashkurgan Town , which was historically known as Sarikol. The range divides Tajikistan's Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province and China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and it runs parallel with the Muztagh Range to the east. The range extends 346 kilometres (215 mi) from the Markansu River in
15-617: The north to the Beyik Pass in the south. Its average elevation is roughly 5,000 metres (16,500 ft) and the highest point in the range is Mount Lyavirdyr at 6,351 m (20,837 ft). On the Tajik part of the range there are 240 glaciers with a total area of 144 km . The range's drainage basin feeds both the Amu Darya and Tarim River . The range is composed of schist , granite and gneiss . This Xinjiang location article
20-494: The title Sarikol . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sarikol&oldid=1195101308 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Sarikol Range The name Sarikol has also been used to describe
25-447: Was at Tashkurgan Sarikoli language , a Pamir language Tajiks of Xinjiang , who are also known as Sarikolis Sarykol District , a district of Kostanay Province in northern Kazakhstan Zorkul , a lake in the Pamir Mountains formerly known as Lake Sarikol See also [ edit ] Tashkurgan (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
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