Look for Qinghai Lake from the map. Where is it?

Qinghai Lake is a large blue dot to the west of the center on the map of China, northwest of Xining City in eastern Qinghai Province.

Qinghai Lake is 105 kilometers long and 63 kilometers wide. The lake surface is 3196 meters above sea level. It is the largest inland lake in China. It is located in the northeast of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and northwest of Xining City. It is located at 99°36′ east longitude. ~100°16′, and between 36°32′ and 37°15′ north latitude. The lake is surrounded by four towering mountains: Datong Mountain to the north, Riyue Mountain to the east, Qinghai Nanshan to the south, and Rubber Mountain to the west.

The altitude of these four mountains is between 3,600 and 5,000 meters above sea level. Qinghai Lake covers an area of ??4,456 square kilometers and has a circumference of more than 360 kilometers, which is more than twice the size of the famous Taihu Lake. The lake is long from east to west, narrow from north to south, and is slightly oval in shape.

The average water depth of Qinghai Lake is more than 21 meters, with a maximum water depth of 32.8 meters, a water storage capacity of 105 billion cubic meters, and an altitude of 3,260 meters. About 200 kilometers away from Xining. There are nearly 30 large and small rivers in the lake area. There are two sub-lakes on the east coast of the lake: Gahai, with an area of ??48 square kilometers, and is salt water; Erhai, with an area of ??8 square kilometers, is fresh water. .

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Natural environment

Climate: Qinghai Lake has a plateau continental climate, with sufficient sunlight and strong sunshine; cold winters and cool summers, and a short warm season. The cold season is long, with strong winds and sandstorms in spring; rainfall is relatively low, with rain and heat in the same season, and distinct dry and wet seasons.

Lighting: Most of the annual sunshine hours in the lake area are more than 3,000 hours, which is about 700 hours higher than the same latitude area east of Qinghai; the annual sunshine percentage reaches 68-69%. The total annual radiation is 171.461-106.693 kcal/cm2·year, which is 10-40 kcal/cm2·year higher than that of the North China Plain and Loess Plateau at the same latitude.

Temperature: The temperature in the east and south of the Lake District is slightly higher, with an average annual temperature between 1.1 and 0.3°C; in the west and north, the temperature is slightly lower, with an average annual temperature between -0.8 and 0.6°C, and an average maximum temperature of 6.7 ~8.7℃, the average minimum temperature is between -6.7~4.9℃, the extreme maximum temperature is 25℃ and 24.4℃, and the extreme minimum temperature is -31~-33.4℃.

Moisture: The lake area receives less precipitation throughout the year. But the east and south are slightly higher than the north and west. The annual precipitation in the east is 412.8 mm, in the south is 359.4 mm, in the northwest is 370.3 mm, and in the west is 360.4 mm and 324.5 mm. The annual evaporation reaches 1502 mm, which far exceeds the precipitation. The precipitation in the lake area changes greatly seasonally, with most precipitation concentrated from May to September, with rain and heat in the same season.

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