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Qinghai Lake is the largest lake in China. Located in an endorheic basin in Qinghai Province , to which it gave its name, Qinghai Lake is classified as an alkaline salt lake . The lake has fluctuated in size, shrinking over much of the 20th century but increasing since 2004.
Qinghai [a] is an inland province in Northwestern China. It is the largest province of China (excluding autonomous regions) by area and has the third smallest population. Its capital and largest city is Xining. Qinghai borders Gansu on the northeast, Xinjiang on the northwest, Sichuan on the southeast and the Tibet Autonomous Region on the
The Custom House (simplified Chinese: 江海关大楼; traditional Chinese: 江海關大樓; pinyin: Jiāng hǎiguān dàlóu) is an eight story building on the Bund, Shanghai. Built in 1927, the building remains a customs house today. Together with the neighboring HSBC Building, the Custom House is seen as one of the symbols of the Bund and ...
The customs house in Canton. Built in 1914, it was the oldest surviving customs house in China The historic customs house on the Yangtze waterfront in Hankou . While controlled by the Chinese central government, the Service was largely staffed at senior levels by foreigners throughout its history.
Qinghai Lake, the West Sea. The original Four Seas were a metaphor for the borders of pre-Han dynasty China. [1] Only two of the Four Seas were tied to real locations, the East Sea with the East China Sea and the South Sea with the South China Sea. [3] During the Han dynasty, wars with the Xiongnu brought them north to Lake Baikal. They ...
A map of the Min River (Minjiang) and Dadu River drainage basin.. The Peace treaty between China and Tibet of 783, also called the Sino-Tibetan Peace Treaty of 783 or Treaty of Qingshui (Chinese: 清水之盟) is a peace treaty negotiated in 783 between the Chinese Tang dynasty, ruled by Emperor Dezong and the Tibetan Empire ruled by Trisong Detsen, giving the latter all the land in the ...
A 225 km 2 [74] area surrounding a compound of 4 buildings [74] constructed between 1954 and 1956 [75] [76] to house relics used in the veneration of Genghis Khan, Tolui, and their wives since the Yuan, repurposed as a salt depot in 1968, [77] restored in the early 1980s, [75] and now the world center of Genghis Khan's cult, [77] despite having ...
North Hulsan Lake: Qinghai: 0–90.4 Saline Pangong Tso: Tibet: 700 Saline Poyang Lake: Jiangxi: 3206.98 Fresh Qiandao Lake: Zhejiang: 573 Fresh Qinghai Lake (Koko Nor) Qinghai: 4340 Saline Siling Lake: Tibet: 1865 Saline South Lake: Hubei: 5 Saline South Dongting Lake: Hunan: Fresh South Hulsan Lake (Nanhuobuxun) Qinghai: 33.41 Saline Suli ...