What's the difference between Tanggula and Nyainqentanglha Mountain?

First, the geographical location is different.

1. Tanggula Mountain: Located at the junction of Xizang Autonomous Region, China and Qinghai Province (Qinghai-Tibet Plateau), it is the boundary mountain between Tibet and Qinghai in the east and extends to Yunling and Nvshan in the Hengduan Mountains in the southeast.

Nyainqentanglha Mountain: Located in Xizang Autonomous Region, China.

Second, the altitude of the highest peak is different.

1, Tanggula Mountain: the highest peak is 662 1 m in winter.

2. Nyainqentanglha Mountain: The main peak Nyainqentanglha Peak is 765,438+065,438+065,438+0 meters above sea level.

Third, geographical and climatic characteristics are different.

1, Tanggula Mountain: Slope wetlands are widely distributed, and the frozen soil with high ground temperature and large ice content is long and has strong frost heaving and thawing settlement; There are island permafrost and deep seasonal permafrost in the south of Amdo. In winter and spring, the temperature is very low and the wind is very cold.

2. Nyainqentanglha Mountain: Located in the hinterland of the mainland, the barrier function of the mountain range blocks the northwest cold current and the Indian Ocean warm current, which basically belongs to semi-arid continental climate, with annual precipitation of 300-400 mm, and the rainy season in this area is from mid-May to mid-September every year, and the seasonal weather phenomenon is also very complicated and changeable. Shower, hail, thunderstorm, lightning and other weather phenomena often occur in one day.

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