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The range extends 1,200 kilometers (750 mi) 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.
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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.
In fiction
The Greater Khingan Range is a key setting in the science fiction novel The Three-Body Problem by Chinese author Liu Cixin.