The range extends 1,200 kilometers (750mi) from north to south. It is the watershed between the Nen and Songhua river systems to the east, and the Amur and its tributaries to the northwest. Cassiterite, a tin ore mined in the range was transported over 1,500 km to the south during the Middle Shang period for bronze production.
Population
Its slopes are a relatively rich grazing area. The Khitan people lived on the eastern slopes before establishing the Liao dynasty in the tenth century. Oroqen, a Tungusic people, live along the Greater and Lesser Khingan range in northeastern China and belong to the oldest autochthonous populations of the region. On the western slopes lived the nomadic people, who raised sheep and camels and used the Mongolian Plateau for their pastoralist economy.
↑Oyunbold (24 March 2022). "Numrug National Park". Bumantour Mongolia LLC. Retrieved 14 August 2023.
↑Hou Hanshu volume 90 "鮮卑者，亦東胡之支也，別依鮮卑山，故因號焉" "the Xianbei people branched off from the so-called 'Eastern Hu' and came to settle around Mt. Xianbei after which name they were designated" translated by Toh (2005)
↑Tseng, Chin Yin (2012). The Making of the Tuoba Northern Wei: Constructing Material Cultural Expressions in the Northern Wei Pingcheng Period (398–494 CE) (PhD). University of Oxford. p.1.
