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Mount Emei ([ɤ̌.měɪ]; Chinese: 峨眉山 [2]; pinyin: Éméi shān), alternatively Mount Omei, is a 3,099-metre-tall (10,167 ft) mountain in Sichuan Province, China, and is the highest of the Four Sacred Buddhist Mountains of China. [3] Mount Emei sits at the western rim of the Sichuan Basin. The mountains west of it are known as ...
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With an elevation of 5,588 metres (18,333 ft) it is the highest peak of the Min Mountains and is Earth's most easterly peak over 5,500 metres (18,000 ft). It is located in Songpan County of the Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province. Xuebaoding was first climbed in 1986 by a joint Chinese-Japanese expedition. [2]
The Longquan Mountains (Chinese: 龙泉山脉; pinyin: Lóngquán shānmài) are a low-lying range of mountains in Sichuan, China. The mountains are 200 km (120 mi) long, on average 10 km (6.2 mi) wide, and form a ridge-like barrier between the Chengdu Plain and the rest of the Sichuan Basin .
The Daxue Range or Daxue Mountains (Chinese: 大雪山山脉, 大雪山; pinyin: Dàxuě Shān; Wade–Giles: Ta 4-hsüeh 3 Shan 1; lit. 'Great Snow Mountains') are a great mountain range in the western part of Sichuan province in Southwest China .
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Topographic map showing the Yangtze River flowing from Chongqing (bottom left) through the ridge-like detachment folds of the eastern Sichuan Basin (left) and the Three Gorges (top right) Haze forming within the Sichuan Basin, with the Daxue Mountains to the west. The Sichuan Basin is an expansive 229,500 km 2 (88,600 sq mi) lowland region in ...
Map of Jiuzhaigou. Jiuzhaigou lies at the southern end of the Minshan mountain range, 330 km (205 mi) north of the provincial capital of Chengdu. It is part of the Jiuzhaigou County (formerly Nanping County) in the Aba Tibetan Qiang Autonomous Prefecture of northwestern Sichuan province, near the Gansu border.