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Bukadaban Feng or Buka Daban Feng (), Syn Qing Feng () or Bokalik Tagh (), is a remote peak on the border between
Ruoqiang County Ruoqiang County () as the official romanized name, also transliterated from Uyghur as Qakilik County (; ), is a county in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China under the administration of the Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture. It co ...
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Xinjiang Xinjiang, SASM/GNC: ''Xinjang''; zh, c=, p=Xīnjiāng; formerly romanized as Sinkiang (, ), officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR), is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China (PRC), located in the northwest ...
and
Qinghai Qinghai (; alternately romanized as Tsinghai, Ch'inghai), also known as Kokonor, is a landlocked province in the northwest of the People's Republic of China. It is the fourth largest province of China by area and has the third smallest po ...
provinces of China. The Chinese term 'Bukadaban Feng' is borrowed from the Uyghur for "bison peak". It is part of the Kunlun Mountains of
East East or Orient is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from west and is the direction from which the Sun rises on the Earth. Etymology As in other languages, the word is formed from the fac ...
- Central Asia. At – the height on older maps was incorrect –, Bukadaban Feng is the highest point of the
Qinghai Qinghai (; alternately romanized as Tsinghai, Ch'inghai), also known as Kokonor, is a landlocked province in the northwest of the People's Republic of China. It is the fourth largest province of China by area and has the third smallest po ...
province and with a
prominence In topography, prominence (also referred to as autonomous height, relative height, and shoulder drop in US English, and drop or relative height in British English) measures the height of a mountain or hill's summit relative to the lowest contou ...
of , it is also an
ultra prominent peak An ultra-prominent peak, or Ultra for short, is a mountain summit with a topographic prominence of or more; it is also called a P1500. The prominence of a peak is the minimum height of climb to the summit on any route from a higher peak, or fr ...
. The peak is considered part of Hoh Xil.http://zt.gog.cn/system/2009/06/25/010591925.shtml 可可西里地区山峦绵延起伏,有青海第一高峰布喀达板峰


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List of Ultras of Tibet, East Asia and neighbouring areas This is a list of all the Ultra prominent peaks (with topographic prominence greater than 1,500 metres) in Tibet, China, East Asia and neighbouring areas of Burma and India, including South India and Sri Lanka. Kunlun Mountains and Northeastern Ti ...
Highest points of Chinese provinces Mountains of Xinjiang Landforms of Qinghai {{Xinjiang-geo-stub