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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 (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 Lake (Senie) Qinghai: 69-85 Saline Sun Moon Lake: Taiwan: 7.93 Fresh Lake Tai: Jiangsu and Zhejiang: 2537.17 Fresh Tangxun Lake: Hubei: 47.6 Fresh ...
English Name Chinese Name Province Location Area (Square Kilometer) Current Condition Qarhan Playa: 察尔汗干盐湖: Qinghai: 5856: Divided into smaller salt lakes
Saline water (3–5%) Brine (> 5% up to 26%–28% max) Bodies of water; Seawater; Salt lake; ... salt lake: Turkey [34] 1.40 Qinghai Lake: salt lake China [35] 1.25 ...
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.
The Qaidam, Tsaidam, or Chaidamu Basin is a hyperarid basin that occupies a large part of Haixi Prefecture in Qinghai Province, China.The basin covers an area of approximately 120,000 km 2 (46,000 sq mi), one-fourth of which is covered by saline lakes and playas.
Xiezuo Lake [a] is a lake in the northeastern Qarhan Playa north of Golmud in Dulan County, Haixi Prefecture, Qinghai Province, China. Like the other lakes of the surrounding Qaidam Basin , it is extremely saline .
Chaka Salt Lake (Chinese: 茶卡盐湖; pinyin: Chákǎ Yánhú; Standard Tibetan: ཚྭ་ཁ་མཚོ་) is a salt lake in Ulan County, Haixi Prefecture, Qinghai, China. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The oval-shaped lake is located near the eastern end of Qaidam Basin , 298 kilometres (185 mi) to the west of the provincial capital Xining . [ 3 ]