Kotra Tso (), or Guozha Lake (),
previously called Lake Lighten,
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Rutog County
Rutog County
(, zh, s=日土县) is a Counties of China, county in Ngari Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China. The county seat is the new Rutog Town, located some or 700 miles west-northwest of the Tibetan capital, Lhasa. Rutog Co ...
in the
Ngari Prefecture
Ngari Prefecture () or Ali Prefecture ( zh, s=阿里地区 , t=阿里地區 , p=Ālǐ Dìqū) is a prefecture of China's Tibet Autonomous Region covering Western Tibet, whose traditional name is Ngari Khorsum. Its administrative centre and large ...
in the northwest of the
Tibet Autonomous Region
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of
China
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. It lies in the western
Kunlun Mountains
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to the northwest of
Bangda Lake,
not far from the regional border with
Xinjiang
Xinjiang,; , SASM/GNC romanization, SASM/GNC: Chinese postal romanization, previously romanized as Sinkiang, officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR), is an Autonomous regions of China, autonomous region of the China, People' ...
.
Located at an altitude of 5080 metres, it covers an area of 244 square kilometres with a maximum depth of 81.9 metres and has a drainage basin containing 62 glaciers.
India's claim line in
Aksai Chin
Aksai Chin is a region administered by China partly in Hotan County, Hotan Prefecture, Xinjiang, and partly in Rutog County, Ngari Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, Tibet, and constituting the easternmost portion of the larger Kashmir regio ...
runs along the water-parting line of Lake Lighten and the
Amtogor Lake to the west.
However, China has
claimed
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the whole of Aksai Chin in 1959.
Maps
File:Txu-oclc-6654394-ni-44-3rd-ed.jpg, Map including Lake Lighten and surrounding region (AMS AMS or Ams may refer to:
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, 1950)
File:NI-44-7 Yahsierh Tso China.jpg, Map including LI-T'IEN HU (Lake Lighten)) ( DMA, 1973)
Notes
References
Ngari Prefecture
Lakes of Tibet
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