Back بحيرة ماناساروفار Arabic Danu Manasarovar BAN Манасаровар Bulgarian मानसरोवर Bihari মানস সরোবর Bengali/Bangla མ་ཕམ་གཡུ་མཚོ། Tibetan Llac de Mansarovar Catalan Manosarovar CRH Mánasaróvar Czech Мапам-Юмцо CV
| Lake Mansarovar | |
|---|---|
| Mapam Yumtso (Standard Tibetan) | |
 Lake Manasarovar with Mount Kailash in the distance. | |
  Lake Mansarovar  Lake Mansarovar  Lake Mansarovar | |
| Location | Burang County, Ngari Prefecture, Tibet, China |
| Coordinates | 30°39′N 81°27′E / 30.65°N 81.45°E |
| Surface area | 410 km2 (160 sq mi) |
| Max. depth | 90 m (300 ft) |
| Surface elevation | 4,590 m (15,060 ft) |
| Frozen | Winter |
Lake Manasarovar (Sanskrit: मानसरोवर, romanized: Mānasarōvara), also called Mapam Yumtso (Tibetan: མ་ཕམ་གཡུ་མཚོ།, Wylie: ma pham g.yu mtsho, THL: ma pam yu tso; Chinese: 瑪旁雍錯; pinyin: Mǎ páng yōng cuò) locally,[a] is a high altitude freshwater lake fed by the Kailash Glaciers[3] near Mount Kailash in Burang County, Ngari Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China. The Indus River is near the lake.[4] The lake along with Mount Kailash to its north are sacred sites in four religions: Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism and Bön.[3]
- ^ "Geographical names of Tibet AR (China): Ngari prefecture". KNAB Place Name Database. Institute of the Estonian Language. 3 June 2018.
- ^ McKay, Alex (2013). Pilgrimage in Tibet. Routledge. ISBN 9781136807091.
- ^ a b Brockman, Norbert (2011). Encyclopedia of Sacred Places, Volume 1. ABC-CLIO. p. 356. ISBN 9781598846546. Retrieved 4 April 2019.
- ^ "Indus River | Definition, Length, Map, History, & Facts | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
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