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The Tian Shan, [note 1] also known as the Tengri Tagh [1] or Tengir-Too, [2] meaning the "Mountains of God/Heaven", is a large system of mountain ranges in Central Asia. The highest peak is Jengish Chokusu at 7,439 metres (24,406 ft) high.
Jengish Chokusu is the highest mountain in Kyrgyzstan and Earth's highest mountain north of 39°N. It is considered the most northerly 7,000-metre mountain in the world by geologists; the actual rock summit of Khan Tengri , the Tian Shan's third-highest peak, is 6,995m above sea level, though a thick layer of ice adds another 15m to its ...
A list of mountain ranges in Kyrgyzstan includes 158 mountain ranges in Central Tien-Shan (16), North Tien-Shan (19), Internal Tien-Shan (48), ...
The ecoregion stretches around the lower altitudes of the Tian Shan mountain ridge, running for approximately 2,000 km from western Kyrgyzstan to eastern Xinjiang Province in China. [1] It separates the arid Tarim Basin and Taklimakan Desert to the south from the Junggar Basin and Kazakh Shield to the north.
The Kakshaal Too (Kyrgyz: Какшаал Тоо, Qaqşaal Too, قاقشاال توو) is a large mountain range in the Central Tien-Shan.It stretches for a length of 582 kilometres (362 mi) (in Kyrgyzstan) between Kyrgyzstan and China.
Folding developed into the Quaternary in the Tien Shan mountains as global changes in climate brought on the Pleistocene ice ages. Most ridges in the mountain range are asymmetric anticlines bounded by reverse and thrust faults. Folding and thrusting is often oriented toward major basins like the Fergana, Chur or Tarim basins. [3]
The Teskey Alatoo (Kyrgyz: Тескей Ала-Тоо, IPA: [tʰĕskéɪ̯ ɑ̀ɫɑtʰóː]), [1] often still known by its Russian name Terskey Alatau (Терскей-Алатау), [2] is a mountain range in the Tian Shan mountains in Kyrgyzstan.
Chatkal Range is a range in the Western Tian Shan that borders Ferghana Valley from northwest. It departs from Talas range and spreads out to south-west to the right bank of Angren (river) . The length of the range is 225 km (140 mi), and it is up to 30 km (19 mi) wide.
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