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| Traditional Chinese | 陰山 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 阴山 | ||||||||
| Literal meaning | Yin Mountain(s) | ||||||||
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| Daqing Mountains | |||||||||
| Chinese | 大青山 | ||||||||
| Literal meaning | Great Blue or Green Mountain(s) | ||||||||
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The Yin Mountains,also known by its Chinese name as the Yin Shan or Yinshan and by various romanizations of the Daqing Mountains,are mountains in the Eastern Gobi Desert steppe of the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region of China. [1] The Yellow River borders the mountains to the south. [2] [1]
The mountains are mainly composed of very old metamorphic rock. [1]
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The Chinese mountain cat,also known as Chinese desert cat and Chinese steppe cat,is a small wild Felis species with sand-coloured fur,faint dark stripes on the face and legs and black tipped ears. It is endemic to the Tibetan Plateau of western China,where it lives in grassland above elevations of 2,500 m (8,200 ft). It has been listed as vulnerable on the IUCN Red List since 2002.
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