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The '''Kunlun Mountains'''{{efn|{{bulleted list|{{lang-zh|s=昆仑山|t=崑崙山|p=Kūnlún Shān}}, {{IPA-cmn|kʰu̯ə́nlu̯ə̌n ʂán|pron}}|{{lang-ug|قۇرۇم تاغ تىزمىسى}} or {{lang|ug|قۇرۇم تاغ تىزمىسى}}
The exact definition of the Kunlun Mountains varies over time. Older sources used Kunlun to mean the mountain belt that runs across the center of China,<ref>{{cite book |first=L. |last=Richard |title=Comprehensive Geography of the Chinese Empire |year=1908 |oclc=2281016 }}</ref> that is, [[Altyn Tagh]] along with the [[Qilian Mountains|Qilian]] and [[Qin Mountains]]. Recent sources<ref>National Geographic Atlas of China, 2008</ref> have the Kunlun range forming most of the south side of the [[Tarim Basin]] and then continuing east, south of the Altyn Tagh. [[Sima Qian]] (''[[Records of the Grand Historian]]'', scroll 123) says that [[Emperor Wu of Han]] sent men to find the source of the [[Yellow River]] and gave the name Kunlun to the mountains at its source. The name seems to have originated as a semi-mythical location in the classical Chinese text ''[[Classic of Mountains and Seas]]''.
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