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{{Short description|Alkaline lake in Aksai Chin}}

{{Infobox body of water
| name = Tso Tang
| native_name = {{Native name|bo|མཚོ་ཐང}}
| image = Tso Tang 2022-08-22 Sentinel-2 L2A True color.jpg
| caption = [[Sentinel-2]] image (2022)
| location = [[Aksai Chin]], [[Hotan Prefecture]], [[Xinjiang]]
| coords = {{coord|34|53|42.96|N|79|21|29.94|E|type:mountain_region:CN-NA_scale:100000|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
| area = {{convert|38|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}}
| depth =
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| shore =
| elevation = {{convert|4800|m|ft|abbr=on}}
| islands =
| cities =
| frozen = Winter
| pushpin_map = China Xinjiang Southern
| pushpin_relief = y
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{{Infobox Chinese
|s=到腾格湖<ref>{{Cite journal
| title = Evolution of the Lakes in the Karakorumwest Kunlun Mountains
| author = Li Bingyuan
| year = 1991
| volume = 11
| number = 1
| journal = Quaternary Sciences
| access-date = 2 February 2022
| url = http://en.igg-journals.cn/article/id/dsjyj_10061
| issn = 1001-7410
| quote = 高湖面时它与到腾格湖是一个统一的大湖
| archive-date = 3 February 2022
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220203205322/http://en.igg-journals.cn/article/id/dsjyj_10061
| url-status = dead
}}</ref>
|p=dàoténggé hú
|s2=列腾格湖<ref>{{Cite journal
| author = Li Xiaofeng
| title = Spatial-temporal variations in lakes in northwest China from 2000 to 2014
| year = 2018
| journal = Acta Ecologica Sinica
| volume = 38
| doi = 10.5846/stxb201612262677
| url = http://www.ecologica.cn/stxb/article/abstract/stxb201612262677
| quote = 另一湖泊萎缩区(D区, 图 4)包括土布拉克湖、红山湖、列腾格湖和萨力吉勒干南库勒4个湖泊, 位于国道219与喀拉喀什河流域之间。
| issn = 1000-0933
| access-date = 2 February 2022
| url-access = subscription
}}</ref>
|p2=lièténggé hú
|s3=倒腾格湖
|p3=dǎotenggé hú
|tib=མཚོ་ཐང
|literal_tibetan=Lake of the Plain
|wylie=mtsho thang
|thdl=tso tang
}}

'''Tso Tang''' (Historically ''Tso Thang'';<ref name="cayley1868"/> {{bo|t=མཚོ་ཐང}}; {{literal translation|Lake of the Plain}}<ref name="cayley1868"/>) is an [[alkaline lake]] located in the disputed territory of [[Aksai Chin]] in [[Hotan Prefecture]] of [[Xinjiang|Xinjiang province]] of [[China]].

== History ==
In the late 1800s, in order to facilitate trade between the [[Indian subcontinent]] and the [[Tarim Basin]], the British attempted to promote a caravan route via the [[Chang Chenmo River|Chang Chenmo]] Valley as an alternative to the difficult and tariffed [[Karakoram Pass]].<ref name="Kohli2000">{{cite book |first=Harish |last=Kohli |title=Across the Frozen Himalaya: The Epic Winter Ski Traverse from Karakoram to Lipu Lekh |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RJK0A1pZHt8C&pg=PA87 |year=2000 |publisher=Indus Publishing |isbn=978-81-7387-106-1 |pages=86–87 |quote=the five difficult passes through the Karakorams posed a barrier ... Cayley reconnoitered a route that went through the Changchenmo ranges ... if anything these new passes were higher than the ones they replaced, and the land in between them was also higher. ... The route had another advantage in that trade from British India could flow through Kulu via Changchenmo to Yarkand, completely bypassing the customs officials of the Maharaja at Leh.}}</ref> Tso Tang was on this route. British Army surgeon [[Henry Cayley]] who was part of a mission to [[Yarkand]] that took this route noted the lake as "brackish but quite potable."<ref name="cayley1868">{{Cite report
| title = Report on the Route to the Karakash River via Changchenmoo Valley and Pass
| first = Henry
| last = Cayley
| author-link = Henry Cayley
| date = 18 August 1868
| editor = Henry Brabazon Urmston
| publication-date = 1869
| work = Selections from the Records of the Government of the Punjab and Its Dependencies
| series = New Series. No. II
| publisher = Government Press
| location = Lahore
| access-date = 2 February 2022
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=wpwIAAAAQAAJ
| pages = 34–35
| quote = a large lake called Tso-thang ("Lake of the Plain"), and encamping on its margin, the water of the lake is somewhat brackish, but quite potable; fuel is found near it
}}</ref>

== References ==
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[[Category:Lakes of Ladakh]]
[[Category:Geography of Xinjiang]]
[[Category:Hotan Prefecture]]
[[Category:China in the Kashmir conflict]]
[[Category:Aksai Chin]]

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