Nyenchen Tanglha
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Nyenchen Tanglha or Nyainqêntanglha (Tibetan: གཉ་ཆེན་ཐང་ལྷ་; Wylie: Gnyan-chen-thang-lha; Chinese: 念青唐古拉山, Pinyin: Niànqīngtánggǔlā Shān) is a mountain range lying approximately 300 kilometer north-west of Lhasa in central Tibet.
The mountain range has more than thirty peaks over 6,000 metres high, and four are more than 7,000 metres high. Its highest point of the same name is 7,162 m (other data: 7,088 m/23,249 ft) (see Mount Nyainqentanglha). The mountain range lies to the south of Namtso Lake (Tengrinor), the second largest saltwater lake in Tibet. The nearest town is Yangbajain.
Nyainêntanglha is the subject of many Tibetan fairytales and old folklore.
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