Kunlun Mountains constitute one of the longest mountain chains in Asia, extending for more than 3,000 kilometres.
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Kunlun Mountains constitute one of the longest mountain chains in Asia, extending for more than 3,000 kilometres.
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Older sources used Kunlun to mean the mountain belt that runs across the center of China, that is, Altyn Tagh along with the Qilian and Qin Mountains.
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Recent sources have the Kunlun range forming most of the south side of the Tarim Basin and then continuing east, south of the Altyn Tagh.
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Some authorities claim that the Kunlun extends further northwest-wards as far as Kongur Tagh and the famous Muztagh Ata.
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Kunlun is originally the name of a mythical mountain believed to be a Taoist paradise.
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Kunlun is a semi-mythical region not far from the source of the Yellow River.
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The Kunlun Mountains entered Chinese ideology during the Warring States Period, and have become closely integrated into Chinese culture.
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In mythology, Kunlun Mountain is the birthplace and ancestral place of the Chinese nation.
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Kunlun was the object of a traditional religious cult which reached its peak in the Han Dynasty.
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Kunlun mountains are described as the location of the Shangri-La monastery in the 1933 novel Lost Horizon by English writer James Hilton.
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In Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus and Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves, the Kunlun Mountains is the location of one of the episodes, and are home to the Panda King of the Fiendish Five.
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