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Lesser Khingan
小兴安岭 / Малый Хинган
Larch taiga on the slopes of the Lesser Khingan
Highest point
Peak	Pingdingshan
Elevation	1,429 m (4,688 ft)
Coordinates	48°47′30″N 127°12′30″E / 48.79167°N 127.20833°E / 48.79167; 127.20833
Dimensions
Length	500 km (310 mi) SW/NE
Width	70 km (43 mi) NW/SE
Geography
Lesser KhinganLocation in Heilongjiang
Countries	China and Russia
Federal subject	Heilongjiang (China) Jewish Autonomous Oblast and Amur Oblast (Russia)
Range coordinates	48°30′N 130°0′E / 48.500°N 130.000°E / 48.500; 130.000
Geology
Rock type(s)	Conglomerate, basalt
Climbing
Easiest route	From Hegang or Birobidzhan

Lesser Khingan (Chinese: 小兴安岭; pinyin: Xiǎo Xīng'ān Lǐng; Russian: Малый Хинган, Maly Khingan) is a mountain range in China's Heilongjiang province and the adjacent parts of Russia's Amur Oblast and Jewish Autonomous Oblast.

In Russia, the range is part of the Khingan Nature Reserve.

Geography

In China, the Khingan mountains are divided into the Greater Khingan and Lesser Khingan. The Lesser Khingan range runs roughly from the northwest to the southeast and separates the valley of the Amur (Heilongjiang) River from that of the Nenjiang River. The mountain range then turns toward the east and north-east, entering Russia. The Amur/Heilongjiang, which is a border river, forms a gorge when crossing the mountain range.

See also

• Khingan Nature Reserve
• Greater Khingan
• Xing'an

References

1. Google Maps
2. Google Earth
3. Малый Хинган; Great Soviet Encyclopedia in 30 volumes — Ch. ed. A.M. Prokhorov. - 3rd edition - M. Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-1978. (in Russian)
4. Еврейская автономная область - Географическое положение и рельеф

Further reading

• Kropotkin, Peter Alexeivitch; Bealby, John Thomas (1911). "Khingan s.v. Little Khingan" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 15 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 777.

External links

• Media related to Lesser Khingan at Wikimedia Commons

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