Where is Altai Mountain and which province does it belong to?

Altai Mountain is located in the north of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in China and the west of Mongolia.

Altai Mountain spans part of the territories of China, Mongolia, Russia and Kazakhstan, and stretches for about 2,000 kilometers from Gobi (desert) to western Siberia, showing a northwest-southeast trend.

There are modern glaciers; The mountain in the west is the widest, and it narrows to the southeast, and the height is lower. Starting from the northeast border of China, the mountain range gradually decreases from northwest to southeast to about 3000 ~ 3500 meters. [4] There is a large northwest fault in front of the mountain, which gradually descends from south to west to the Irtysh River valley, showing four steps, and the outline of the mountain is massive and layered; There are only glacier landforms and modern glaciers in the alpine region, which is the northernmost distribution center of modern glaciers in China. There are no large longitudinal valleys except for fault basins with beaded distribution along NW faults. Altai Mountain is a typical fault-block mountain. Together with Kunlun Mountain, Tianshan Mountain, Kunlun Mountain, Tarim Basin and Junggar Basin, it forms "three mountains and two basins". The rugged mountains separate the water of big rivers such as ob river (which flows northward into the Arctic Ocean) and its main tributary, the Irtysh River, from the water flowing into the vast Central Asian basin. The rivers originating in mountainous areas are controlled by faults, and flow northwest into the Irtysh River, becoming the upper reaches of ob river, which is the only river in China that flows into the Arctic Ocean. The vertical distribution of mountain vegetation is obvious. 1 100 meters below is the piedmont grassland belt; 1 100 ~ 2300m is the forest belt, where there are Siberian pine, Siberian fir and spruce. Above 2300 meters, it is a mountain meadow belt and subalpine meadow belt, which is a good summer pasture. There is a small amount of agriculture in the lower intermountain basin. Mountainous areas are rich in nonferrous metals (including gold mines).