Greater Khingan
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The Greater Khingan Range or Da Hinggan Range (Template:Lang-zh; IPA: Template:IPAc-cmn) is a Template:Convert volcanic mountain range in the Inner Mongolia region of Northeast China.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> It was originally called the Xianbei Mountains, which later became the name of the northern branch of the Donghu, the Xianbei.<ref>Hou Hanshu volume 90 "鮮卑者，亦東胡之支也，別依鮮卑山，故因號焉" "the Xianbei people branched off from the so-called 'Eastern Hu' and came to settle around Mt. Xianbei after which name they were designated" translated by Toh (2005)</ref><ref>Weishu volume 1</ref><ref>Template:Cite thesis</ref>
GeographyEdit
The range extends Template:Convert from north to south. It is the watershed between the Nen and Songhua river systems to the east, and the Amur and its tributaries to the northwest.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
PopulationEdit
Its slopes are a relatively rich grazing area. The Khitan people lived on the eastern slopes<ref name=mote/> before establishing the Liao Dynasty in the tenth century. Oroqen, a Tungusic people, live along the Greater and Lesser Khingan range in northeastern China and belong to the oldest autochthonous populations of the region. On the western slopes lived the nomadic people, who raised sheep and camels and used the Mongolian plateau for their pastoralist economy.<ref name=mote>Template:Cite book</ref>
In fictionEdit
The Greater Khingan Range is a key setting in the science fiction novel The Three-Body Problem (novel) by Chinese author Liu Cixin.