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	Baitou Mountain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Baitou (Paektu) Mountain is a mountain on the border between China and North Korea.
		The names Baitoushan and Paektusan both mean white-headed mountain, and the mountain is the highest peak of the Changbai Mountains, standing at 2,750 m.
		The mountain is the source of the Songhua, Tumen (Tuman/Duman) and Yalu (Amnok) rivers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Paektu-san (749 words)

	Encyclopedia: List of mountains
		Pumori (or Pumo Ri) is a mountain in the Himalayas on the Nepal-Tibet border.
		The Eiger is a mountain in the Alps of Switzerland.
		Wildspitze is the tallest mountain in the Oetzthal Alps and the second-tallest mountain in Austria, (Grossglockner is the tallest).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/List-of-mountains (8304 words)

	Paektu Mountains. Who is Paektu Mountains? What is Paektu Mountains? Where is Paektu Mountains? Definition of Paektu ...
		The mountain's name is 白頭山 in Chinese characters, and is pronounced as Baitoushan (bai2 tou2 shan1) in Mandarin and as Paektu-san (백두산) in Korean.
		The name means "White-Headed Mountain," and the mountain is the highest peak of the Changbai (Changbaek) Mountains, standing at 2,744 m.
		The mountain is the source of the Songhua, Tumen (Tuman) and Yalu (Amnok) rivers.
	www.knowledgerush.com /kr/encyclopedia/Paektu_Mountains (121 words)

	Changbai Mountains. Who is Changbai Mountains? What is Changbai Mountains? Where is Changbai Mountains? Definition of ...
		The Changbai (Changbaek) Mountains are a mountain range on the border between China and North Korea.
		In Manchu, the mountains are called golmin angiyan alin and represent the mythical birthplace of Bukūri Yongon, ancestor of Nurhaci, who in turn was the founder of the Manchu state.
		The highest peak is Baitou (Paektu) Mountain (2,744 m), which is the source of the Songhua, Tumen (Tuman) and Yalu (Amnok) Rivers.
	www.knowledgerush.com /kr/encyclopedia/Changbai_Mountains (121 words)

	Paektu san (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Baitou (Paektu) Mountain (白頭山 pinyin : bai2tou2 shan1; Hangul : 백두산; Paektu-san or Baekdu-san) is a mountain on the border between China and North Korea.
		The Jurchen Jin Empire bestowed the title "Xingguo Lingying King" (興國靈應王) onthe mountain god in 1172 and it was promoted to "Kaitian Hongsheng Emperor" (開天宏聖帝) in 1193.During the Manchu Qing Dynasty,the Kangxi Emperor designated the Baitou Mountain asthe legendary birthplace of the imperial family Aisin Gioro followed a surveyalthough it is no longer supported.
		As with the Jin Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty heldannual rites for the mountain.
	www.therfcc.org /paektu-san-66619.html (511 words)

	Korean Peninsula - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Mountains cover 70 percent of the Korean Peninsula and arable plains are generally small and far in between the successive mountain ranges.
		The peninsula becomes more mountainous towards the north and the east, with the highest mountains (including Paektu-san which stands at 2,744 m) found in the north.
		The peninsula has 8,460 kilometres of coastline, and the south and west coasts are highly irregular in particular; most of the 3,579 islands off the peninsula are found along the south and the west coasts.
	www.eastcleveland.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Korean_peninsula (399 words)

	Peakware - Korea
		Korea is a peninsula extending south from Northeast China, with mostly hilly and mountainous terrain throughout.
		The peak is Halla San (6,398 ft.), a dormant volcano rising in the center of the island.
		On the mainland, the principle mountain ranges are the Taeback, which rises along the North and South Korean border, and the Soback, located in the south.
	www.peakware.com /encyclopedia/ranges/korea.htm (420 words)

	Korea's Geography - Terrain
		The mountainous interior is an isolated, nearly inaccessible, and sparsely populated part of Korea dominated by the Choguryong, Hamgyong, Kangnam, Mach’ollyong, Myohyang, Myorak, Nangnim, and PujolLyong Mountain Ranges.
		Paektu, Korea’s highest peak and the source of the Yalu and Tumen Rivers, dominates the northwestern corner of this lava plateau, an area often called the "roof of Korea." Just north of Mt. Paektu’s summit is a large crater lake named Ch’onji, meaning "Heavenly Lake."
		The Nangnim Mountain Range in the north and the T'aebaek Mountain Range in the south, with its lesser branch, the Sobaek Range running in a northeast-southwest direction, form an east-west division that isolates this region from the rest of the peninsula.
	www.koreanhistoryproject.org /Jta/Kr/KrGEO1.htm (957 words)

	Baitou Mountain
		Baitou (Paektu) Mountain (白頭山 pinyin: bai2 tou2 shan1; Hangul: 백두산; Paektu-san or Baekdu-san) is a mountain on the border between China and North Korea.
		The name Baitoushan means "White-Headed Mountain," and the mountain is the highest peak of the Changbai Mountains, standing at 2,744 m.
		As with the Jin Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty held annual rites for the mountain.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/b/ba/baitou_mountain.html (579 words)

	MSN Encarta - North Korea
		The most prominent mountain range is the Nangnim-sanmaek, in the north central region.
		Mount Paektu (2,744 m/9,003 ft), on the Chinese border, is the highest peak.
		Most of the soils in the mountainous regions lack organic material and are relatively infertile.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761555092 (421 words)

	Articles - Korean Peninsula (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The peninsula becomes more mountainous towards the north and the east, with the highest mountains (including Paektu-san/Baekdu-san which stands at 2,744 m) found in the north.
		Cold-temperate vegetation is found along the peninsula's northern fringe and in the high mountains, including the upper reaches of Hallasan on Jeju.
		However, Baekdu Mountain in the north and Hallasan in the south have crater lakes, indicating that they were active not long ago.
	www.go-trucks.com /articles/Korean_Peninsula (556 words)

	Relief (from Korea, North) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Crater lake at the summit of Mount Paektu, northern Yanggang province, North Korea.
		Mount Paektu (9,022 feet [2,750 metres]; see photograph), the highest mountain in North Korea and on the peninsula, rises at the northern edge of this plateau; it is an extinct…
		On a mountainous peninsula jutting southward from the eastern Asian mainland is Korea, the historic land bridge and buffer between China and Japan.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=34920 (924 words)

	North Korea - GEOGRAPHY
		Some 80 percent of North Korea's land area is composed of mountains and uplands, with all of the peninsula's mountains with elevations of 2,000 meters or more located in North Korea.
		Because the mountains on the east coast drop abruptly to the sea, the plains are even smaller there than on the west coast.
		The mountain ranges in the northern and eastern parts of North Korea form the watershed for most of its rivers, which run in a westerly direction and empty into the Yellow Sea (Korea Bay).
	www.mongabay.com /reference/country_studies/north-korea/GEOGRAPHY.html (1268 words)

	Kaema Highlands -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Called the roof of the Korean Peninsula, the Kaema Highlands are bounded on the north by Paektu Mountain (9,003 feet [2,744 m]), on the west by the Nangnim Mountain Range, on the east by the coast of the Sea of Japan (East Sea), and on the south by the northern tip of the T'aebaek Mountains.
		Mount Paektu (9,022 feet [2,750 metres]; see), the highest mountain in North Korea and on the peninsula, rises at the northern edge of this...
		The Hamgyong Mountains lie on the northeastern edge of the Kaema Highlands and stretch southwest to the Pujollyong Mountains and northeast almost to the Tumen River.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9044289 (821 words)

	13.5. The Secret Camp on Mt. Paektu
		Paektu was an impregnable natural fortress, so to speak, for its terrain features were so favorable to defence, that even one single man could repel 1,000 attackers.
		Paektu, soaring majestically as if the ancestor of this land, is the symbol of Korea and cradle of the 5,000-year-long history of her nation.
		Paektu is now a school where the second, third, and fourth generations of our revolution learn from the revolutionary spirit of Paektu, cherished by the first generation.
	www.kimsoft.com /war/r-13-5.htm (7190 words)

	Baitou Mountain - China-related Topics A-D - China-Related Topics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The name Baitoushan means "White-Headed Mountain," and the mountain is the highest peak of the Changbai MountainsChangbai Mountains, standing at 2,744 m.
		The mountain is the source of the Songhua RiverSonghua, Tumen RiverTumen (Tuman) and Yalu RiverYalu (Amnok) rivers.
		During the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the Kangxi Emperor of ChinaKangxi Emperor designated the Baitou Mountain as the legendary birthplace of the imperial family Aisin Gioro followed a survey although it is no longer supported.
	www.famouschinese.com /virtual/Baitou_Mountain (703 words)

	Korea's Geography - General Description
		Nearly 80% of the country is characterized by hills and rugged mountains, many of which were born from volcanic activity.
		The geologic upheavals that gave birth to the peninsula formed two principal mountain ranges rarely exceeding a height of 1,200 meters: the craggy, steep terrain of the Nangnim Sanmaek range in the north and the T'aebaek Sanmaek range in the south.
		Korea's eastern sea coast, where the T'aebaek Sanmaek mountain range rises from the East Sea, is a nearly unbroken shoreline of precipitous cliffs and rocky outcroppings.
	www.koreanhistoryproject.org /Jta/Kr/KrGEO0.htm (1083 words)

	[KS] Maps Missing Mountains (allegedly)
		Of all the ranges, 47 branch out from Paektu Taegan, the backbone of the peninsula, which starts from Mt. Paektu in the North, the highest peak in the country, and ends at Mt. Chiri in the South.
		More surprising than this difference is the accuracy of a map drawn by Kim Chong-ho, the nation's first cartographer, in 1861 on the basis of a lifetime of observation and studies of geographical figures on the peninsula.
		It is deplorable that we have ignored a map that accurately depicted mountain ranges more than 140 years ago, when it was impossible to travel to every corner of the then undeveloped peninsula.
	koreaweb.ws /pipermail/koreanstudies_koreaweb.ws/2005-January/004532.html (485 words)

	www.gracerose.com - Korea - Introduction
		The physical ascent to one peak only revealed a multitude of more mountains (after all, seventy percent of Korea is mountainous) but my intriguing quest birthed a love for climbing crests.
		Flowing from Korea's tallest mountain, Paektu-san (on the Manchurian border), six hundred and thirty-six miles of the rivers Amnok and Tuman form a natural separation between North Korea and China with a mere eleven miles of the Tuman-kang drawing a dividing line between Korea and Siberia.
		The tallest mountain in the vicinity of our village was called Chicken Foot because it resembled a giant rooster’s leg and claws.
	www.gracerose.com /korea/mountains/mountains0001.html (690 words)

	Korean Statistics, Land and Resources -- Page 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The peninsula is bordered by the Yellow Sea on the west and the East Sea/Sea of Japan on the east.
		The highest mountains are the Paektu-san, which extend from northeast to southwest along the Chinese border, reaching 2,744 km (9,003 ft) at Mount Paektu, Korea's highest point.
		To the east of the lowlands are the T'aebaek Mountains, the backbone of the peninsula, which extend southward from Wonsan to form the main watershed.
	www.paulnoll.com /Korea/History/Korean-stats-03.html (277 words)

	Paektu Tourism and Water
		Mount Paektu, which is more than 27 hundred meters of height in its peak and has a lot of huge distribution of more than hunderds of square kilo meters in the Manchuria to the north and Korea to the south, has been remained as a primitive place of nature.
		Consisting of a series of parallel ranges with a general southwest to northeast axis, the mountains are a continuation of the uplands of the Liaotung and Shantung peninsulas.
		They are known to have bared mountains because in part to develop wood industry and in part to kill tree to get food from stems and leaves.
	www.american.edu /ted/paektu.htm (4811 words)

	Learn more about List of mountains in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Baitou (Paektu) Mountain - highest mountain in Korea, on Chinese/North Korean border
		Halla Mountain - volcano; highest peak in South Korea
		Mount Waddington - highest mountain in the Coast Mountains range of British Columbia, Canada
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /l/li/list_of_mountains.html (542 words)

	White Mountain Backpacks - Origin of Name Mt Paektu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Having shot more than 30,000 mountain photographs of the four seasons, all of which are depicted with a fine combination of yin and yang, Mr.
		Called "Paektusan" (White-Headed Mountain) by Koreans, Mt. Paektu is situated on the northern border of Korea with China.
		The mountain is inhabited by various animals including tigers, leopards, bears, wolves, wild boars, deer's, musk deer's, and wild birds such as, fl grouses, owls, woodpeckers, and hazel grouses.
	www.whitemountain.com.au /wm_mt_paektu.html (1022 words)

	americasroof news - hiking and climbing the highest mountains and hills in the world and U.S.
		The massive mountain, an extinct volcano, is mentioned in South Korea¡¯s national anthem.
		The code-names were chosen for the highest mountain peaks in the two Koreas?Baekdu in the North and Halla in the South.
		February 16 2005, 3:46 PM Workers and students gathered over the weekend at Mount Paektu, the North Korea's highest mountain, in a pilgrimage to the "sacred camp," where Supreme LeaderKim Jong-il was allegedly born on Feb. 16.
	www.network54.com /Forum/thread?forumid=3897&messageid=1059706528 (440 words)

	Asia Travel » GEOGRAPHY of North Korea : Journey to Asia
		North Korea is estimated to be 80 per cent uninhabitable mountains, compared to a mere 70 per cent uninhabitable land in the south.
		When the Japanese were running the place they were no keen environmentalists, and used the whole peninsula as their own private timber mill and mine, especially once WWII kicked on.
		But much of North Korea’s sheer inaccessibility saved it, and the northern and eastern regions of the country are mostly rugged mountains with dense forests, not well suited to agriculture or easy to exploitation.
	asia.travel-chronicle.com /asia-travel/7/geography-of-north-korea (1439 words)

	16.1. Expedition to Fusong
		In the winter of the year in which the KPRA main force had established its base in the Paektu mountains, the enemy dragged out the people to break the ice on the Yalu noisily every night to prevent individuals or groups of soldiers from the People's Revolutionary Army from infiltrating their homeland.
		Both the flat lands and deep mountains of this region were being "combed" by the enemy.
		That winter there had been an unusually heavy snowfall on the Changbai mountains, and in some valleys the snow banks were as deep as the height of several men.
	www.kimsoft.com /war/r-16-1.htm (5497 words)

	Kotaji 거타지: Miscellany 1: Maps and brass
		According to this article textbooks are going to be changed to reflect the fact that Korean academics now believe that maps of the peninsula have been wrong since 1903.
		The claim is that due to the malign influence of the Japanese colonialists the standard maps, which have been used during and since the colonial period, chopped up Korea's mountain backbone (the 'Paektu taegan') and diminished the number of her mountain ranges.
		Of course it is not hard to detect in this a good dose of the classic post-colonial nationalist discourse that is so common in Korea, with a healthy helping of quasi-environmentalist rapid industrialisation nostalgia and perhaps a smidgen of old school geomancy (風水地理) thrown in.
	kotaji.blogspot.com /2005/01/miscellany-1-maps-and-brass.html (444 words)

	"Naenara"-Major Attractions -Mt. Paektu
		Mt. Paektu, ancestral mountain of Korea, is snow-headed all the year round.
		It is the sacred mountain and the holy place of the Korean nation for its association with the revolutionary history of President
		Kim Jong Il The crater lake atop the mountain and the multifarious changes of nature feature the mountain as the superb one of the five celebrated mountains of Korea.
	www.kcckp.net /en/tourism/attraction/attract-view.php?2 (121 words)

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