Qinghai Lake, Qinghai Plateau is located in the north-east, north-western city of Xining, is China's largest inland lakes, is China's largest salt lake.Its vast, magnificent, thanks to nature and the Qinghai Plateau Hokyo great side.
Qinghai Lake, the ancient known as the "West", also known as "fresh water" or "sea-fresh." Mongolian call it "nur koukou", which means "blue sea." Earlier as a result of belonging to the Qinghai Lake area of British Columbia communities Wo pasture, it is also called the "British Wo Qiang sea", the Han Dynasty was also called "Sally the sea." Only from the Northern Wei Dynasty changed its name to "Qinghai."
Qinghai Lake area of 4456 square kilometers, more than 360 km around the perimeter than the famous Taihu Lake than twice. The lake from east to west, north and south narrow, slightly oval-shaped. At first glance, like a poplar leaf hypertrophy. Qinghai Lake average about 19 meters deep, maximum depth of 28 meters, water storage capacity of 105 billion cubic meters, the lake is 3260 meters above sea level, more than two higher than Mount Tai Dongyue. Because of the high-lying here, the climate is very cool. Even if it is extremely hot in the summer, the daily average temperature of only 15 ℃ left, is an ideal summer resort.
