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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 Lake is the largest salt water lake in China, and the second largest in the world. Other large lakes are Lake Hala in the Qilian mountains , lakes Gyaring and Ngoring in the headwater region of the Yellow River, Lake Donggi Cona , and many saline and salt lakes in the western part of the province.
Changes in water level, environment, and human activities may increase or decrease the size of each lakes over time. [2] The Five Largest Salt lakes ... Qinghai Lake ...
The volume of a lake is a difficult quantity to measure. [1] ... Qinghai Province: 4,583 km 2 (1,770 sq mi) ... This page always uses small font size. Width. Standard.
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 ...
Original size as of Reduced size as of References Aral Sea: Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan 68,000 km 2 ... Qinghai Lake: China 6,000 km 2 (2,300 sq ...
The Qinghai Lake has a salinity of about 14 parts per thousand, meaning that the water is brackish. [3] From April to July adults of the lake population migrate 40–50 km (25–31 mi) to nearby freshwater streams to spawn. These include the Harge, Goncha, Chang Ji, and Buha rivers. [9]
The Qinghai Lake (Koko Nor) is the largest lake in the People's Republic of China. Climate The climate is severely dry nine months of the year, and average annual snowfall is only 46 cm (18 inches), due to the rain shadow effect .