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Western Tien-Shan
| Site number: | 1490 |
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| Type of site: | Natural | |
| Date of Inscription: | 2016 | |
| Location: | Eurasia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan | |
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Other languages: Armenian, Azerbailani, Basque (Euskara), Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Cebuano, Croatian, Cymraeg, Czech, Dutch, Esperanto, Finnish (suomi), Georgian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian , Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Mongolian (Монгол), Norwegian-bokmĺl, Norwegian-nynorsk, Polish , Portuguese, Punjabi, Scots, Serbian, Slovenian, Swedish, Tatar, Thai, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese
| Description: | The transnational property is located in the Tien-Shan mountain system, one of the largest mountain ranges in the world. Western Tien-Shan ranges in altitude from 700 to 4,503 m. It features diverse landscapes, which are home to exceptionally rich biodiversity. It is of global importance as a centre of origin for a number of cultivated fruit crops and is home to a great diversity of forest types and unique plant community associations. --La description WHMNet est de | Tian Shan is north and west of the Taklamakan Desert and directly north of the Tarim Basin in the border region of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and northwest China. In the south it links up with the Pamir Mountains and to north and east it meets the Altai Mountains of Mongolia. In Western cartography such as National Geographic, the eastern end of the Tian Shan is usually understood to be east of Ürümqi, with the range to the east of that city known as the Bogda Shan as part of the Tian Shan. Chinese cartography from the Han Dynasty to the present agrees, with the Tian Shan including the Bogda Shan and Barkol ranges. The Tian Shan are a part of the Himalayan orogenic belt, which was formed by the collision of the Indian and Eurasian plates in the Cenozoic era. They are one of the longest mountain ranges in Central Asia and stretch some 2,800 kilometres (1,700 mi) eastward from Tashkent in Uzbekistan. --Wikipedia. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. |
| Source: | http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1490 | |
| Source2: | Wikipedia (http://wikipedia.com) | |
| Reference: | 1. UNESCO World Heritage Center (http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1490). 2. Wikipedia. | |