Continental Basins of Mongolia - Asian Development Bank 2020

The Central Asian Internal Drainage Basin or Central Asian Inland Basin is the largest of 3 major hydrological basins that cover

Mongolia Mongolia is a landlocked country in East Asia, bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south and southeast. It covers an area of , with a population of 3.5 million, making it the world's List of countries and dependencies by po ...

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Arctic Drainage Basin & Pacific Drainage Basin). It is an

endorheic basin An endorheic basin ( ; also endoreic basin and endorreic basin) is a drainage basin that normally retains water and allows no outflow to other external bodies of water (e.g. rivers and oceans); instead, the water drainage flows into permanent ...

.Ayurin Dulmaa,
Mongolian Limnology and Ichthyology
in: "Mongolia Today: Science, Culture, Environment and Development" (2002) (quote from Google cache) It is further subdivided into local drainage basins.OVERVIEW OF MONGOLIA’S WATER RESOURCES SYSTEM AND MANAGEMENT. A COUNTRY WATER SECURITY ASSESSMENT
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, July 2020 The basin also includes much of the Western and Central Asia: the watersheds of the

Great Lakes Depression The Great Lakes Depression, also called the Great Lakes Hollow, is a large semi-arid Depression (geology), depression in Mongolia that covers parts of the Uvs Province, Uvs, Khovd Province, Khovd, Bayan-Ölgii Province, Bayan-Ölgii, Zavkhan Prov ...

, the Valley of Lakes, and the lowlands of the

Gobi Desert The Gobi Desert (, , ; ) is a large, cold desert and grassland region in North China and southern Mongolia. It is the sixth-largest desert in the world. The name of the desert comes from the Mongolian word ''gobi'', used to refer to all of th ...

. It is separated from the other two basins by the ridges of the

Khangai Mountains The Khangai Mountains form a mountain range, range in central Mongolia, some west of Ulaanbaatar. Name Two provinces of Mongolia are named after the Khangai mountains: Arkhangai (North Khangai) and Ovorkhangai (South Khangai). The mild climat ...

and Khentii Mountains. The Khentii Mountains also separate Arctic and Pacific basins within Mongolia.

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