1903 topographic map of the Qing dynasty depicting the Mongolian Plateau
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese
蒙古高原
Simplified Chinese
蒙古高原
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Ménggǔ Gāoyuán
Bopomofo
ㄇㄥˊ ㄍㄨˇ ㄍㄠ ㄩㄢˊ
Mongolian name
Mongolian Cyrillic
Монголын тэгш өндөрлөг
Mongolian script
ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠤᠨ ᠲᠡᠭᠰᠢ ᠥᠨᠳᠥᠷᠯᠢᠭ
The Mongolian Plateau is the part of the Central Asian Plateau lying between 37°46′-53°08′N and 87°40′-122°15′E and having an area of approximately 3,200,000 square kilometres (1,200,000 sq mi). It is bounded by the Greater Hinggan Mountains in the east, the Yin Mountains to the south, the Altai Mountains to the west, and the Sayan and Khentii mountains to the north.[1] The plateau includes the Gobi Desert as well as dry steppe regions. It has an elevation of roughly 1,000 to 1,500 meters, with the lowest point in Hulunbuir and the highest point in the Altai.[1]
Politically, the plateau spans all of Mongolia, along with parts of China and Russia. Inner Mongolia and parts of the Dzungarian basin in Xinjiang encompass the Chinese portion of the plateau. In Russia, the plateau forms Transbaikal, part of Buryatia, and the southern Irkutsk Oblast. The Mongolian Plateau comprises the majority of the area known as the Mongol heartland.
^ abZhang, Xueyan; Hu, Yunfeng; Zhuang, Dafang; Qi, Yongqing; Ma, Xin (2009). "NDVI spatial pattern and its differentiation on the Mongolian Plateau". Journal of Geographical Sciences. 19 (4). Springer-Verlag: 405. doi:10.1007/s11442-009-0403-7.
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of the desert comes from the Mongolian word Gobi, used to refer to all of the waterless regions in the MongolianPlateau, while in Chinese Gobi is used...
in Mongolian script. Mongolian is the principal language of the Mongolic language family that originated in the MongolianPlateau. It is spoken by ethnic...
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etymologies Mongolian nobility Mongolianplateau Outline of Mongolia Politics of Mongolia Timeline of Mongolian history Janhunen, Juha (2014). Mongolian. Amsterdam:...
child the name Möngke (meaning "eternal" in the Mongolian language). Nowadays most parents give Mongolian names to their children, often in the form of...
which marked the rise of the Western Mongols in the history of the MongolianPlateau. Despite the universal currency of the term "Four Oirat" among Eastern...
(khanlig) of probably Mongol or Turkic origin in the 12th century MongolianPlateau. The Merkits lived in the basins of the Selenga and lower Orkhon River...
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Yan Mountains. Further north are the drier grasslands of the Inner MongolianPlateau, traditionally home to pastoralists. To the south are agricultural...
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a dynastic regime ruled by the Mongol Borjigin clan based in the MongolianPlateau. It existed as a rump state after the collapse of the Yuan dynasty...
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in China proper conquered by her father after he withdrew to the MongolianPlateau in 1215. In 1206, the Ongud allies of Genghis Khan attended his great...
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(Khalkha Mongolian: Цахар, Tsahar; simplified Chinese: 察哈尔部; traditional Chinese: 察哈爾部) are a subgroup of Mongols that speak Chakhar Mongolian and predominantly...
was one of the five major tribal confederations (khanlig) in the MongolianPlateau in the 12th century. The name "Tatar" was possibly first transliterated...
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