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Definition of Kuenlun
1. Noun. A mountain range in western China that extends eastward from the Indian border for 1000 miles.
Group relationships: Cathay, China, Communist China, Mainland China, People's Republic Of China, Prc, Red China
Terms within: Muztag, Muztagh, Ulugh Muz Tagh, Ulugh Muztagh
Generic synonyms: Chain, Chain Of Mountains, Mountain Chain, Mountain Range, Range, Range Of Mountains
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kuenlun
Literary usage of Kuenlun
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Recreations in Physical Geography, Or, The Earth as it is by Rosina Maria Zornlin (1840)
"kuenlun MOUNTAINS.—ALTAI MOUNTAINS. ... or Gobi, until it unites with the mountains
of China, to which the elevated kuenlun also extends. ..."
2. With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on by Susie Carson Rijnhart (1901)
"Crossing the kuenlun Mountains—"Buddha's Cauldron"—Marshes and ... The kuenlun
mountain range stretches across Tibet from west to east at about thirty-six ..."
3. Researches Into the Physical History of Mankind by James Cowles Prichard (1844)
"Kuen lun or kuenlun must not be confounded with the mountain Kuen lun, ... M.
Remusat found in it a passage describing the " Blacks of kuenlun. ..."
4. The Jummoo and Kashmir Territories: A Geographical Account by Frederic Drew (1875)
"These are part of the foremost ridge of the kuenlun; it is a bold dark line some
4000 feet above the plain; behind it is the lofty snowy range that reaches ..."
5. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1883)
"The Karakoram Pass also lies on an axis of elevation further to the north and
intermediate between the Mustagh and kuenlun. 2. Mustagh. ..."
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