Mongolian Plateau

The Mongolian Plateau is one of the largest plateaus of Asia, which includes the Gobi Desert and the surrounding upland steppes. It is located on the territory of Mongolia and northern China and is named after the Tibetan Plateau is the largest plateau of Central and East Asia. In contrast to Tibet but it only has a mean altitude of 900 to 1500 meters. The framing the Grand Plateau mountains are but 3 - to 5000 m high.

The plateau extends over an approximately rectangular area of about 2,000 x 1,000 km from Tian Chan mountains of Central Asia to the mountain ranges of the Great Chingan in eastern Mongolia. In the south it is bordered by Nanschan Mountains and the Ordos Plateau of the Yellow River. In the southeast foothills his rich zoom down to about 200 km to Beijing and has been fixed in the past by the "Great Wall ". In the north the plateau is bounded to the south of Lake Baikal by the Mongolian mountains ( Altai and Khangai Mountains) and the hill country.

The elongated, undulating plateau has a very dry climate and the character of deserts and steppes; the few waters are almost all inland rivers that dry up in the lower reaches. Chance of the plateau in the mountain country is going through, but is traversed in its geographical center of the mountain ranges of the Gobi Altai ( peak to 2,800 m ). In the eastern Mongolia plateau has trained numerous salt marshes, some of which drain across the river Kerulen the Amur. The southeast, the plateau of Inner Mongolia, is located on the territory of China and partially dewatered to the Yellow Sea.

• Geography (Mongolia)