The area of Qinghai Lake is 4625.6 square kilometers.

Qinghai Lake, Tibetan name "Tso Wen Bu", meaning "green sea", is located in the northeastern part of the Tibetan Plateau in China's Qinghai Province, is China's largest lake, but also China's largest area of water into the water lake, inland water lake. The Qinghai Lake was formed by the fault subsidence between the Datong Mountain and Riyue Mountain of the Qilian Mountains and the South Mountain of Qinghai, and its Haixin Mountain and Bird Island are both tourist attractions.

The source of water in Qinghai Lake mainly depends on surface runoff and precipitation recharge of the lake. 2011, Qinghai Lake scenic area won the "national 5A level tourist attractions title". Qinghai Lake is a tectonic fracture lake, and the edge of the lake basin is connected to the surrounding mountains by fractures. From 20 to 2 million years ago into the lake at the beginning of the formation of the early stage of the original is a large freshwater lake, and the Yellow River water system, when the climate is mild and rainy.

The lake was drained into the Yellow River through the Inverted Flowing River in the southeast, and it was an outflow lake. To 130,000 years ago, due to the new tectonic movement, the surrounding mountains strongly uplifted, from the end of the Pliocene, the eastern part of the lake Riyue Mountain, Niu Mountain rapidly rising uplift, so that the original injection into the Yellow River inverted flow of the river was blocked, forcing it to flow into the Qinghai Lake from the east to the west, the emergence of the Ga Hai, ear sea, and then separated from the Haiyan Lake, Shadao Lake, such as sub-lakes.

Qinghai Lake Tourism Guide

The main attractions around the lake and its surroundings are Riyue Mountain, the Inverted Flowing River, the Hulimugou Petroglyphs, the Rubber Mountain, the Chaka Salt Lake, the Chaka Temple, the Foei Ancient City, the Wudao Island, the Haixinshan Mountain, the Beixiangyang Ancient City, the Sherbuji Petroglyphs, the Gahai Ancient City, the Jinyintan Grasslands, the Atomic City of Xihai Town, the Sand Island, and the Triangle City of the Xihai County.