Ngoring Lake () or Ngoreng Lake () or Eling Lake () is a large freshwater lake in the

Yellow River The Yellow River, also known as Huanghe, is the second-longest river in China and the List of rivers by length, sixth-longest river system on Earth, with an estimated length of and a Drainage basin, watershed of . Beginning in the Bayan H ...

catchment, it is in the southeast of

Qinghai Province Qinghai is an inland province in Northwestern China. It is the largest province of China (excluding autonomous regions) by area and has the third smallest population. Its capital and largest city is Xining. Qinghai borders Gansu on the nort ...

.The name of lake means "Long Blue Lake" in

Tibetan language Tibetan language may refer to: * Lhasa Tibetan or Standard Tibetan, the most widely used spoken dialect * Classical Tibetan, the classical language used also as a contemporary written standard * Any of the other Tibetic languages See also * Ol ...

. Ngoring Lake is , with a drainage area of , an elevation of , length and mean width (max ). It is also the origin of the

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{{Lakes of China Lakes of Qinghai Yellow River Lakes of China Ramsar sites in China