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The Gobi Desert (Mongolian: Говь, ᠭᠣᠪᠢ, / ˈ ɡ oʊ b i /; Chinese: 戈壁; pinyin: gēbì) is a large, cold desert and grassland region in northern China and southern Mongolia and is the sixth largest desert in the world.
The Taklamakan Desert has an area of 337,000 km 2 (130,000 sq mi), [11] making it slightly smaller than Germany. The desert is part of the Tarim Basin, which is 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) long and 400 kilometres (250 mi) wide. It is crossed at its northern and at its southern edge by two branches of the Silk Road, by which travellers sought to ...
T. Taklamakan Desert. Tengger Desert. Categories: Deserts by country. Geography of China. Deserts of Asia by country. Commons category link is on Wikidata.
The Badain Jaran Desert (Chinese: 巴 丹 吉 林 沙 漠; pinyin: Bādānjílín Shāmò) is a desert in China which spans the provinces of Gansu, Ningxia and Inner Mongolia. It covers an area of 49,000 square kilometers (19,000 sq mi; 12,000,000 acres). By size it is the third largest desert in China.
Song gao. Sugar painting. Sweet potato soup. Sweetheart cake [7] Sugar painting is a traditional Chinese form of folk art using hot, liquid sugar to create two-dimensional figures. Sweetheart cake is a traditional Cantonese pastry with flaky and thin skin filled with winter melon mixed glutinous rice flour and sugar.
Kubuqi Desert. Coordinates: 40.688°N 108.070°E. The Kubuqi Desert ( simplified Chinese: 库布齐沙漠; traditional Chinese: 庫布齊沙漠; pinyin: Kùbùqí Shāmò) is a desert within the Ordos Basin in northwestern China, under the administration of the Inner Mongolian prefecture of Ordos City. Located between the Hetao plains and the ...
1,400 m (4,600 ft) The Tengger Desert or Tengri Desert ( Mongolian: Тэнгэр цөл, Chinese: 腾格里沙漠; pinyin: Ténggélǐ Shāmò; lit. 'Sky Desert') is an arid natural region that covers about 36,700 km 2 and is mostly in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in China . The desert is expanding in size.
The Tarim Basin is the oval desert in Central Asia. Xinjiang consists of two main geographically, historically, and ethnically distinct regions with different historical names, Dzungaria and the Tarim Basin ( Altishahr ), which Qing China unified into Xinjiang province in 1884. [3]