This is a list of basins, camping grounds, lakes, mountains, mountain passes, outposts, plains, rivers, ruins, settlements, streams, valleys, villages, and other geographical features located in (or partially included in) the sparsely populated Aksai Chin region administered by China. (Originally a part of India but occupied by China). The alternate language names of locations in the Aksai Chin area are included for reference.
Approximate map of the Aksai Chin areaMap including part of Aksai Chin (1893)Map of the expeditions of Sven Hedin (1906–8) including Aksai Chin (RGS, early 20th century)
Map NI44-1 including part of Aksai Chin area (north) (AMS, 1955)[a]
Map NI44-1 including part of Aksai Chin area (north) (DMA, 1982)
Map NI44-5 including part of the Aksai Chin area (central) (AMS, 1955)[a]
Map NI44-5 including part of Aksai Chin labeled 'STATUS IN DISPUTE' (DIA, 1967)
Map NI44-6 including part of Aksai Chin (DMA, 1989)
Map NI44-9 including part of the Aksai Chin area (south) (AMS, 1954)[a]
Map NI44-9 including part of Aksai Chin (DMA, 1982)
International Map of the World, Map NI44, 3rd edition including most of the Aksai Chin area (AMS, 1950)[a]From the Operational Navigation Chart; map including all of the Aksai Chin area (DMA, 1980)[b]Map including all of the Aksai Chin area (DMA, 1995)[c]
Tielongtan[7][8][9] (T’ieh-lung-t’an; 铁隆滩[10]) – intersection with road to Wenquan[11]
Chalukou (岔路口; Fork) – Intersection of road to Tianwendian, Heweitan, and G219. It is possibly also a geology camp supporting nearby prospecting operations.[12]
On some maps, the road intersections in the region are also referred to with the simple named "(blank)岔口" where "(blank)" is the Chinese initial of the destination, and 岔口 simply means "road fork". For example, 天岔口, 河岔口, and 空岔口 for the road forks to Tianwendian, Heweinan, and Kongka Pass respectively.
Highway maintenance squad
No. 509 Highway Maintenance Squad[13] - southeast of Dahongliutan few kilometers inside Indian claim
No. 635 Highway Maintenance Squad[14] – just north of Xinjiang Tibet provincial border
Camping grounds
Including camping grounds on historical caravan routes in Aksai Chin:
With improvements (modern & historical)
Bilongtan[15] – possibly geology camp for mining prospecting
Qizil-yilga or Qizil Jilga (NI44-1, LQ1) (克孜勒吉勒干 or 克孜勒吉勒尕)
Note: Chinese locations are slightly different, see Chalukou above. However, 克孜勒吉勒干 and 克孜勒吉勒尕 are used to signify 2 different valleys nearby.
Unimproved
These are simply referred to as halting place which are places with sufficient vegetation, water, or natural shelter to warrant stopping or camping for historical caravans that depended upon beasts of burden.
Thaldat Mapho Tāng[24] (NI44) In October 1963, a radar site 6 nmi (11 km) northeast of Thaldat Mapho Tāng included a radar antenna, seven tents and three support buildings.[25]
^Bi, Hua; Wang, Zhonggang; Wang, Yuanlong; Zhu, Xiaoqing (1999). "History of tectono-magmatic evolution in the Western Kunlun Orogen". Science in China Series D: Earth Sciences. 42 (6): 604–619. Bibcode:1999ScChD..42..604B. doi:10.1007/BF02877788. ISSN1006-9313. S2CID129824878. resulting in the formation of a series of pre-collisional granites (e.g. the adamellite (J2) at No. 509 Highway Maintenance Squad
^Yu, Yuanjun; Xiong, Liming; Yang, Kaihua (March 2019). "新疆和田县碧龙潭铅锌矿地质特征及找矿方向" [Geological characteristics and prospecting direction of Bilongtan lead-zinc deposit in Hetian county, Xinjiang]. Contributions to Geology and Mineral Resources Research (in Chinese). 34 (3). doi:10.6053/j.issn.1001-1412.2019.03.003.
^Jeannette Mirsky (October 1998). Sir Aurel Stein: Archaeological Explorer. University of Chicago Press. p. 308. ISBN978-0-226-53177-9. In the Aksai Chin region he constructed a number of stone shelters (langar), and one of these was Haji Langar on the Karakash.
