Definition of Kunlun Mountains

1. Noun. A mountain range in western China that extends eastward from the Indian border for 1000 miles.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Kunlun Mountains

Kumamoto
Kumanovo
Kumasi
Kummell
Kummell's spondylitis
Kumyk
Kun
Kuna
Kunas
Kund Johan Victor Rasmussen
Kundt's tube
Kung
Kung Fu
Kung futzu
Kunlun
Kunlun Mountains (current term)
Kunming
Kuntscher
Kuntscher nail
Kununurra
Kuomintang
Kuopio
Kupffer
Kupffer's cell
Kuppfer cell
Kur
Kura
Kura River
Kurd
Kurdestan

Literary usage of Kunlun Mountains

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. China: Her History, Diplomacy and Commerce from the Earliest Times to the by Edward Harper Parker (1901)
"At present there seems to be no long-distance caravan trade along the direct roads between Tibet and Lob Nor across the Kunlun Mountains. ..."

2. Chinese Art by Stephen Wootton Bushell, Victoria and Albert Museum (1904)
"... writes in the 2nd century BC :— " On the summit of the Kunlun mountains there is a gigantic bird named Hsi- yu which faces the south, it stretches out ..."

3. Asia by Jo Ellen Moore (1999)
"|I Kunlun Mountains 1 ^i Deccan Plateau [I Gobi Desert | | Plateau of Tibet I Himalaya Mountains [__ Siberia Tien Shan Taklimakan Desert I 1 Arabian ..."

4. Cutting Off the Serpent's Head: Tightening Control in Tibet, 1994-1995by Tibet Information Network, Robert Barnett, Human Rights Watch/Asia, Human Rights Watch (Organization) by Tibet Information Network, Robert Barnett, Human Rights Watch/Asia, Human Rights Watch (Organization) (1996)
"... the Tibetan area west of the Yangzi river and south of the Kunlun mountains. This is the only area recognized by modern- day China as "Tibet. ..."

5. Central Eurasian Water Crisis; Caspian, Aral, and Dead Seas by Iwao Kobori, Michael H. Glantz (1998)
"The Amudarya, which starts from the Kunlun mountains and runs north-west through the Pamir Heights into the Aral Sea at its south shore, has a river course ..."

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