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Sichuan and Yunnan Provinces

  36 Mountain Summits with Prominence of 1,500 meters or greater

According to our research, the People's Republic of China has 178 ultra-prominent summits.  This is equal to almost 12% of the world's total, and ranks China as #1 in this category.  33 of these summits appear to be directly on the border with a neighboring country:  Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, North Korea, or Vietnam.

In order to best display the data, we are presenting the mountains of China on four lists:

China I - Tibet (Xizang)
China II - Sinkiang (Xinjiang)
China III - Sichuan and Yunnan Provinces
China IV - Central and Eastern China, including Taiwan and Korea

Additionally, there is a  high degree of overlap between the Tibet and Sinkiang lists and the High Asia I (Karakoram) and High Asia II (Central Himalaya) lists.

It is not our intention to make misleading statements about the proper borders in areas
disputed between China, India, Pakistan and Bhutan.  We apologize if for any errors of international borders, and are happy to be notified with corrections.

The four lists that comprise China reflective extensive research into names, elevations and promience values conducted over a period of several years.  China is completely mapped at 1:50,000 scale, but these maps are heavily restricted to the public and we
have unfortunately not had access to much of this information.  Information about source material is in the footnotes below.     

Compiled 2003-6 by Jonathan de Ferranti, Eberhard Jurgalski and Aaron Maizlish.  List ©2006 www.peaklist.org

firest release:  March 12, 2006
Rank
Summit Name
Alt. Names
Province
Country
Elevation
Prominence
Saddle
Latitude
Longitude
ID Code
Elev
(ft.)
Prom
(ft.)
Notes

Sichuan Province

1 Minya Konka HP Gongga Shan Sichuan China 7556 3642 3914 29º35'42"N 101º52'36"E AS019 24790 11949
2 Jiuding Shan
Sichuan China 4969 2808 2161 31º32'36"N 103º51'12"E AS057 16302 9212
3 Yaomei Feng HP Siguniang Shan, Siguliang Sichuan China 6250 2571 3679 31º06'24"N 102º54'06"E AS073 20505 8435
4 Huatou Jian
Sichuan China 4750 2223 2527 28º43'45"N 102º22'45"E AS142 15584 7293
5 LAMO-SHE
Sichuan China 6070 2093 3977 29º56'57"N 102º03'00"E AS169 19914 6867
6 Xuebao Ding
Sichuan China 5588 2057 3531 32º40'33"N 103º50'48"E AS156 18333 6749
7 Kawarani
Sichuan China 5992 2018 3974 31º27'09"N 100º13'24"E AS245 19659 6621
8 Ge'nyen
Sichuan China 6204 2000 4204 29º48'27"N 099º36'21"E AS223 20354 6562
9 DALYANDUN RANGE
Sichuan China 4041 1905 2136 27º53'39"N 103º14'12"E AS255 13258 6250
10 Xiannairi HP Gongga Xueshan Sichuan China 6032 1878 4154 28º23'48"N 100º20'57"E AS254 19790 6161
11 HP Lunan Shan
Sichuan China 4300 1760 2540 27º33'00"N 102º21'18"E AS343 14107 5774
12 DAPIN SHAN
Sichuan China 5412 1728 3684 30º12'30"N 102º19'54"E AS357 17756 5669
13 Chola Shan I
Sichuan China 6168 1703 4465 31º47'12"N 099º04'24"E AS428 20236 5587
14 JIANKHO SHAN
Sichuan China 5300 1692 3608 31º27'09"N 103º23'57"E AS381 17388 5551
15 JIAOJIN SHAN
Sichuan China 5734 1681 4053 30º35'15"N 102º10'06"E AS414 18812 5515
16 Unknown Name

Sichuan China 3030 1656 1374 32º21'24"N 104º50'45"E AS438 9941 5433
17 Jinping Shan
Sichuan China 4420 1630 2790 28º20'33"N 101º45'15"E AS488 14501 5348
18 Unknown Name
Sichuan China 4260 1625 2635 28º57'30"N 102º56'12"E AS462 13976 5331
19 Haizi Shan
Sichuan China 5820 1578 4242 30º22'45"N 101º41'57"E AS485 19094 5177
20 Unknown Name
Sichuan China 5744 1563 4181 30º16'03"N 101º57'39"E AS535 18845 5128
21 YAOJI SHAN
Sichuan China 3590 1552 2038 28º58'42"N 103º15'57"E AS569 11778 5092
E1 Unknown Name
Sichuan China 5300 1474 3826 29º37'51"N 101º16'27"E AS670 17388 4836
E2 Unknown Name
Sichuan China 5876 1452 4424 29º17'45"N 101º54'30"E AS694 19278 4764
E3 Unknown Name
Sichuan China 3430 1438 1992 26º59'33"N 101º50'06"E AS701 11253 4718

Yunnan Province

1 Shanzidou HP Yulong Xueshan Yunnan China 5596 3202 2394 27º05'54"N 100º10'30"E AS028 18359 10505
2 HP Hung-Wang Shan
Yunnan China 4330 2470 1860 26º08'57"N 102º54'48"E AS092 14206 8104
3 Daxue Shan
Yunnan China 3500 2041 1459 24º06'42"N 099º38'24"E AS186 11483 6696
4 YAO SHAN
Yunnan China 4050 1996 2054 27º12'48"N 103º04'39"E AS210 13287 6548
5 Unknown Name
Yunnan China 4030 1837 2193 26º09'30"N 103º14'09"E AS217 13222 6027
6 Haba Xueshan
Yunnan China 5396 1794 3602 27º19'06"N 100º06'00"E AS316 17703 5886
7 Unknown Name
Yunnan China 4520 1786 2734 27º34'36"N 100º18'39"E AS318 14829 5860
8 Unknown Name
Yunnan China 3480 1750 1730 26º44'06"N 100º27'42"E AS347 11417 5741
9 Phu Si Lung
Yunnan Vietnam/China 3076 1750 1326 22º37'33"N 102º47'15"E AS348 10092 5741
10 Dabaicao Ling
Yunnan China 3680 1738 1942 26º08'27"N 101º10'51"E AS362 12073 5702
11 Xuebang Shan
Yunnan China 4260 1735 2525 26º28'48"N 099º29'51"E AS359 13976 5692
12 HUNHUA SHAN
Yunnan China 3420 1718 1702 23º57'27"N 100º15'39"E AS383 11220 5636
13 FINCHUIYANOU RANGE
Yunnan China 3580 1590 1990 25º29'21"N 099º04'30"E AS511 11745 5216
14 LAOTZYUNSHAN
Yunnan China 4500 1558 2942 26º53'00"N 099º36'39"E AS567 14764 5111
15 Unknown Name
Yunnan China 2995 1544 1451 23º25'48"N 099º12'57"E AS703 9826 5066
E1 DYANTSAN SHAN
Yunnan China 4085 1465 2620 25º40'18"N 100º05'33"E AS675 13402 4806
E2 LOPULA RANGE
Yunnan China 2640 1450 1190 24º34'24"N 097º57'42"E AS705 8661 4757

Sources: 

Data Sources:  This page represents years of compilation by the authors from a variety of sources including direct communication with researchers and from published material, principally 1) various mountaineering literature, 2) Soviet topographic mapping at 1:100,000 and 1:200,000,  3) extensive analysis of SRTM (Shuttle Radar Topography Mission) digital elevation data, 4) names and elevations in publications by the China Mountaineering Association and in the geonames database, 5) Chinese Snow Mountain topographic map series, and 6) both commercial and national topographic surveys including the recent Finnish survey of Nepal where applicable.  We have striven to sort through extremely divergent elevation values and toponymy in order to provide a list that best reflects accurate and supportable data.  Notably, we have analyzed all published values against SRTM for reasonableness, and in many cases propose here for the first time, elevation estimates that we believe are more accurate than old survey values.

Names:  We have not been able to determine reliable placenames for a significant number of summits in China.  The tradition in Tibet and China is to give a name to an entire mountain range, and many of the less-famous peaks do not have well-known local names apart from that of their range.  Names in quotation marks are working names for unnamed summits (mostly in the Eastern Karakoram) from an unpublished 1984 study.  Names in capitals are those that we transliterated directly from the cyrillic on the Russian topographic maps, and have not thus far confirm their accuracy or pinyin spelling.  In addition, 28 peaks in China are name unknown, where we feel that the name of the larger range is not descriptive enough.  Submissions of names are welcome.

Saddle and prominence values are derived almost exclusively from SRTM data, with some reliance on Soviet mapping.  It is generally felt that these values are accurate to ±20 meters.

FOOTNOTES

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