Bangda Co
People's Republic of China · Asia
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Bangda Lake (Tibetan: པང་བཏགས་མཚོ, Wylie: pang btags mtsho, THL: pang tak tso; Chinese: 邦达错; pinyin: Bāngdá Cuò), formerly called Yeshil Kul,
is a glacial lake in Ngari Prefecture in the northwest of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. It lies south of the western Kunlun Mountains, only a few kilometres to the southeast of Guozha Lake (Lake Lighten).
Located at an altitude of 4902 metres, it covers an area of 106 square kilometres with a maximum depth of 21.6 metres and has a drainage basin containing 90 glaciers.
Adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)。Photography via Wikimedia Commons.