Tien Shan

American  

[tyen shahn] / ˈtyɛn ˈʃɑn /

Also Tian Shan

noun

1. the Tien Shan, a mountain range in central Asia, in China and Kirghizia. Highest peak, Pobeda Peak, 24,406 feet (7,439 meters).

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Tien Shan British  

/ ˈtjɛnˈʃɑːn /

noun

1. a variant transliteration of the Chinese name for the Tian Shan

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Example Sentences

Vegetation influences sediment transport especially in the Eastern Tibetan Plateau and Tien Shan.

From Science Daily • Dec. 4, 2024

Nestled in the Tien Shan mountains, the largest east to west mountain range on Earth, merchants from all over Europe and Asia would travel to Tashbulak and Tugunbulak to hawk their wares.

From Salon • Nov. 24, 2024

According to Hamida’s husband, Yusypov Karim, two-thirds of the refugees perished as they crossed the Tien Shan mountain range in the midst of a long and bitter winter.

From Slate • Jul. 17, 2017

A trans-’Stan trip is where he excels, from visits to an Uzbek astrologer’s observatory in Samarkland, to camping treks through Kyrgyzstan’s Tien Shan peaks.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 9, 2015

Transport yourselves then, say in the year 552, to the peaks of Tien Shan of Kuen Lun, or high Tai-hsing, or the grand South Mountain; and see the Pantheon assembled.

From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Morris, Kenneth