Greater Khingan

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| type = Tilted block faulting

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The Greater Khingan Range or Da Hinggan Range ({{lang-zh|s=大兴安岭|t=大興安嶺|p=Dà Xīng'ān Lǐng}}; IPA: {{IPAc-cmn|d|a|4|-|x|ing|1|.|an|1|.|l|ing|3}}) is a {{convert|1200|km|mi|adj=mid|-long|sp=us}} volcanic mountain range in the Inner Mongolia region of Northeast China.{{cite news|url=http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/travel/2015-12/28/content_22842227.htm|title=The Greater Khingan range in winter|date=28 December 2015|work=China Daily|access-date=30 December 2015}}

It was originally called the Xianbei Mountains, which later became the name of the northern branch of the Donghu, the Xianbei.Hou Hanshu volume 90 "鮮卑者，亦東胡之支也，別依鮮卑山，故因號焉" "the Xianbei people branched off from the so-called 'Eastern Hu' and came to settle around Mt. Xianbei after which name they were designated" translated by Toh (2005)Weishu volume 1{{cite thesis|type= PhD|last= Tseng|first= Chin Yin|title= The Making of the Tuoba Northern Wei: Constructing Material Cultural Expressions in the Northern Wei Pingcheng Period (398–494 CE)|date= 2012|publisher= University of Oxford|page= 1}}

Geography

The range extends {{convert|1200|km|mi|sp=us}} from north to south. It is the watershed between the Nen and Songhua river systems to the east, and the Amur and its tributaries to the northwest.{{cite web |title=Da Hinggan Range |url=https://www.britannica.com/place/Da-Hinggan-Range |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |access-date=17 September 2020}}

Population

Its slopes are a relatively rich grazing area. The Khitan people lived on the eastern slopes before establishing the Liao Dynasty in the tenth century. Oroqen, a Tungusic people, live along the Greater and Lesser Khingan range in northeastern China and belong to the oldest autochthonous populations of the region. On the western slopes lived the nomadic people, who raised sheep and camels and used the Mongolian plateau for their pastoralist economy.{{Cite book|last = Mote |first = F.W. |year = 1999 |title = Imperial China: 900–1800 |publisher = Harvard University Press|page=32s |isbn = 0-674-01212-7}}

In fiction

The Greater Khingan Range is a key setting in the science fiction novel The Three-Body Problem (novel) by Chinese author Liu Cixin.

Greater Khingan

Geography

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In fiction

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