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Qilian Shan
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Qi·lian Shan  (chlyän shän) also Nan Shan (nän)
A mountain range of north-central China extending northwest to southeast and having peaks rising from 5,490 m (18,000 ft) to more than 6,100 m (20,000 ft).


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Once the eastern gateway to the Silk road, the Hexi corridor is sandwiched between the Qilian Mountains to the southwest, and lower mountains bordering the Gobi desert to the northeast.
Dai, 'Active thrusting and folding in the Qilian Shan, and decoupling between upper crust and mantle in northeastern Tibet', Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol.
The Yuezhi, who had lived on the periphery of China in the region between the Qilian Mountains and Dunhuang in modern-day Gansu province, were expelled far into central Asia during the Xiohgnu conquests of the early second century B.
 
 
 
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