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Situated in northwest Qinghai Province in the northeastern part of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the basin is surrounded by the Kunlunshan and Qilianshan mountains. It covers 220,000 square km, with its base averaging 2,700-3,000 meters above sea level. Gobi deserts, hills, plains and lakes are distributed from the fringe to the center of the basin, which has a terrain descending from the northwest to the southeast, where there are a large number of salty lakes and swamps.