Buir Lake

Freshwater lake on the China-Mongolia border
47°48′25″N 117°41′32″E / 47.80694°N 117.69222°E / 47.80694; 117.69222
Ramsar Wetland
Official nameLake Buir and its surrounding wetlandsDesignated22 March 2004Reference no.1377[1]

Buir Lake (Mongolian: Буйр нуур, romanized: Buyır nağur; Chinese: 贝尔湖; pinyin: Bèi'ěr Hú) is a freshwater lake that straddles the border between Mongolia and China. It lies within the Buir Lake Depression. The Chinese city of Hulunbuir is named after both this lake and Hulun Lake, which lies entirely on the Chinese side of the border in Inner Mongolia.[2]

In 1388, Ming forces under Lan Yu won a major victory over the Northern Yuan on the Buir Lake region. Northern Yuan ruler Tögüs Temür tried to escape but was killed shortly afterwards.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Lake Buir and its surrounding wetlands". Ramsar Sites Information Service. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
  2. ^ "Translations on People's Republic of China", by United States Joint Publications Research Service
  3. ^ The Mongol empire & its legacy, by Reuven Amitai-Preiss, David Morgan, pg 293

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