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The '''Tarbagatai Mountains''' ({{lang-mn|{{MongolUnicode|ᠲᠠᠷᠪᠠᠭᠠᠲᠠᠢ<br>ᠨᠢᠷᠤᠭᠤ}}}}, {{lang|mn-Cyrl|Тарвагатай нуруу}} (translit.: ''tarvagatai nuruu''), literally: "range with marmots"); {{zh|s=塔尔巴哈台山|p=Tǎ'ěrbāhātái Shān}}) are a range of mountains located in the north-western parts of [[Xinjiang]], [[China]] and [[East Kazakhstan Province|East Kazakhstan]]. The name of the mountain derived from Mongolian word: in [[Traditional Mongolian alphabet]]: {{lang-mn|{{MongolUnicode|ᠲᠠᠷᠪᠠᠭ᠎ᠠ}}}} ({{lang|mn-Cyrl|[[wikt:тарвага|тарвага]]}} "tarvaga", meaning "[[marmot]]") with suffix {{lang-mn|{{MongolUnicode|ᠲᠠᠢ}}}} ({{lang|mn-Cyrl|[[wikt:-тай|-тай]]}} "-tai"; literally "to have" or "with").

Many [[Tarbagan marmot]] live in this mountain range. (Their name does not have a direct translation from the English in Mongolian, as it would mean ''marmot's marmot''.

An eastern extension of the Tarbagatai is the [[Saur Mountains|Saur]] Range.

==Drainage==
As it is [[Precipitation types#Orographic|common]] for mountain ranges, there is more precipitation in the Tarbagatai mountains than in the adjacent flatlands. The mountains are thus an important watershed. Streams from the northern slopes of the Tarbagatai flow into [[Lake Zaysan]], which eventually drains (via the [[Irtysh]]) into the [[Arctic Ocean]]. The streams of the southern slope, many of which merge into  the [[Emil River]], flow into the [[Emin Valley]] (the basin of the [[endorheic]] [[Lake Alakol]]); they are an important source of water for several counties of [[Tacheng Prefecture|Tacheng (Tarbagatay) Prefecture]] in China.

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