title: Ngoring Lake
text: # Ngoring Lake
  
  Ngoring Lake (Tibetan: མཚོ་སྔོ་རིང་, Wylie: mtsho sngo ring) or Ngoreng Lake (Tibetan: མཚོ་སྔོ་རེངས, Wylie: mtsho sngo rengs) or Eling Lake (Chinese: 鄂陵湖; pinyin: èlíng Hú) is a large freshwater lake in the Yellow River catchment, it is in the southeast of Qinghai Province.The name of lake means "Long Blue Lake" in Tibetan language. Ngoring Lake is 610.7 $km^2$ (235.8 sq mi), with a drainage area of 18,188 $km^2$ (7,022 sq mi), an elevation of 4,268 m (14,003 ft), length 32.3 km (20.1 mi) and mean width 18.9 km (11.7 mi) (max 31.6 km (19.6 mi)).
  
  