Tarbagatai Mountains

The Tarbagatai Mountains (Mongolian Тарбагатай ;塔尔巴哈 台山Chinese, Pinyin Tǎ'ěrbāhātái Shān; Kazakh Тарбағатай, Tarbaghatai ) is a mountain range of the Altai Mountains. It is on the border of East Kazakhstan ( Schyghys Qasaqstan oblysy ) in Kazakhstan and Xinjiang in China. In Mongolian, it means " land of groundhogs ". In Tacheng (former name: Tarbagatai ) it is ' Northern Mountains ' called (Ch Bei Shan北山). The mountain range is about 300 km long and 50 km wide, its highest point is Mount Tastau with 2992 meters.