The tunnel is located in the western, sparsely populated part of Zadoi County, Qinghai (the eastern edge of the Hoh Xil mountainous region between the Kunlun and Tanggula mountain ranges).
The high plateau between the Altyn-Tagh and the main Kunlun range (which includes the famous Ulugh Muztagh) is known as the Kumkol Basin: an endorheic basin, where several saline lakes are found.
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North of this strip of irrigated agriculture and settlement is the Taklamakan Desert, south, the Altyn-Tagh and Kunlun Mountains.
The Department also oversees the Military Museum of the Chinese People's Revolution, Liberation Army Daily (JieFangJun RiBao), the PLA Literature and Art Press (Kunlun Press), PLA Pictorial, and PLA Press.
Tashkurgan County is located in the eastern part of the Pamir Plateau, where the Kunlun, Kara Kunlun, Hindukush and Tian Shan mountains come together, at the borders with Afghanistan (Wakhan Corridor), Tajikistan (Gorno-Badakhshan Province) and Pakistan (Gilgit-Baltistan).