Altai Mountains

American  

Or Altay Mountains

plural noun

1. a mountain range in central Asia, mostly in Mongolia, China, Kazakhstan, and the S Russian Federation. Highest peak, Belukha, 15,157 feet (4,506 meters).

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Altai Mountains British  

/ ɑːlˈtaɪ /

plural noun

1. a mountain system of central Asia, in W Mongolia, W China, and S Russia. Highest peak: Belukha, 4506 m (14 783 ft)

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Example Sentences

The settlement is also close to copper and tin deposits in the nearby Altai Mountains, which would have supplied the key raw materials needed for its bronze production.

From Science Daily • Dec. 5, 2025

Pääbo and his team also sequenced the genome of Denisova, a hominin whose fossils were found in 2008 in the Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains in Siberia.

From Scientific American • Oct. 4, 2022

The existence of Denisovans was unknown until the tip of a finger bone about 40,000 years old was found in 2010 in a cave in the Altai Mountains of Siberia.

From Washington Post • May 19, 2022

His continuing survey of melting ice margins in the Altai Mountains of western Mongolia has produced artifacts that upended some of the most basic archaeological assumptions about the area’s history.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 2, 2021

Rising in the Altai Mountains, it flows from the southeast to the northwest and empties itself into the Obi, after a course of four thousand miles.

From Michael Strogoff Or, The Courier of the Czar by Verne, Jules