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It runs along the western border of China southwards beside the Pamir range, then curves to the East, to form the border range of northern Tibet. It stretches along the southern edge what is now called the Tarim Basin, the infamous Takla Makan or "sand-buried houses" desert, and the Gobi desert. The range has over 200 peaks higher than 6,000 metres. The three highest peaks are the Kongur Tagh (7719m), the Dingbei (7625m) and the famous Mutzagata (7546m).

The mountain range formed at the northern edges of the Indian Plate during its collision, in the late Triassic, with the Eurasian Plate, which resulted in the closing of the Paleo-Tethys Ocean .

Mythology

The Kuen-Lun mountains are well known in Chinese mythology and are believed to be Taoist paradise. The first to visit this paradise was, according to the legends, King Mu (1001-947BC) of the Zhou DynastyAlternative meaning: Zhou Dynasty (690 CE 705 CE The Zhou Dynasty (; Wade-Giles: Chou Dynasty (late 10th century BC to late 9th century BC 256 BC) followed the Shang (Yin) Dynasty and preceded the Qin Dynasty in China. In the Chinese historical tradition,. He supposedly discovered there the Jade palace of Huang-Di, the mythical Yellow Emperor, and met Hsi Wang Mu , the Royal Mother of the West, who also had her mythical abode in these mountains.

Huan Di sometimes known as the yellow emperor or the originator of the Chinese culture.