Ngoring Lake

Ngoring Lake
Coordinates	34°54′N 97°42′E / 34.900°N 97.700°ECoordinates: 34°54′N 97°42′E / 34.900°N 97.700°E
Type	Fresh water lake
Primary inflows	Yellow River, Lena Qu
Primary outflows	Yellow River
Catchment area	18,188 km^2 (7,022 sq mi)
Basin countries	China
Max. length	32.3 km (20 mi)
Max. width	31.6 km (20 mi)
Surface area	610.7 km^2 (200 sq mi)
Average depth	17.6 m (58 ft)
Max. depth	30.7 m (101 ft)
Surface elevation	4,268 m (14,003 ft)

Ngoring Lake（Tibetan: མཚོ་སྔོ་རིང་, Wylie: mtsho sngo ring ）or Ngoreng Lake (Tibetan: མཚོ་སྔོ་རེངས, Wylie: mtsho sngo rengs ) or Eling Lake (Chinese: 鄂陵湖; pinyin: èlíng Hú) is a large freshwater lake in the Yellow River catchment, it is in the southeast of Qinghai Province.The name of lake means "Long Blue Lake" in Tibetan language. Ngoring Lake is 610.7 km ², with a drainage area of 18,188 km ², an elevation of 4268 m, length 32.3 km and mean width 18.9 km (max 31.6 m).^[1]

Notes

1. Sumin, Wang; Hongshen, Dou (1998). Lakes in China. Beijing: Science Press. p. 477. ISBN 7-03-006706-1.