Tanggula Mountains
The 48th highest mountain range in the world
The Tanggula (p Tánggǔlāshān, p Tánggǔlāshānmài), Tangla, Tanglha, or Dangla Mountains (Tibetan, w Gdang La, z Dang La) is a mountain range in the central part of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in Tibet. Administratively, the range is in the Nagqu Prefecture of the Tibet Autonomous Region, with the central section extending into the Tanggula Town and the eastern section entering the Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Qinghai province. Tanggula is the source of the Ulan Moron and Dam Qu Rivers, the geographic headwaters of the Yangtze River. It functions as a dividing range between the basin of the Yangtze in the north and the endorheic basin of northeastern Tibet in the south.
Location: People's Republic of China.
Mountain range data from Wikidata (CC0). Elevation is the height of the highest peak.