🌊 Lake Ayakkum

People's Republic of China · Asia · 37.55°N, 89.38°E

Ayakkum Lake is a lake near the northern boundary of the Tibetan Plateau, to the southeast of the Kunlun Mountains. While many of the small glacier and snowmelt-fed streams on the Plateau give rise to major South-east Asian rivers, some empty into saline lakes such as Lake Ayakkum. The lake is growing because of increased flows from small glacier- and snowmelt-fed streams.

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Quick facts

Country	People's Republic of China
Continent / region	Asia
Surface elevation	unknown
Coordinates (approx.)	37.55°N, 89.38°E · view on map

Lake Ayakkum in People's Republic of China, in Asia. The full story of this lake is described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

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