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- Gobi Desert | Map, Plants, Animals, & Facts | BritannicaGobi Desert, great desert and semidesert region of Central Asia that stretches across large parts of Mongolia and China. Much of the Gobi (from Mongolian gobi, meaning ‘waterless place’) is not sandy desert but bare rock. Although vegetation is rare, the Gobi’s fauna is varied and includes camels, kulan, and dzeren.
- Gobi Desert - National Geographic Societyadjective. existing, moving, growing, or operating in the air. desert. noun. area of land that receives no more than 25 centimeters (10 inches) of precipitation a year. document. verb. to keep track of. harsh.
- Gobi Desert - New World EncyclopediaThe Gobi Desert, the largest in Asia and the fourth largest in the world, stretches into modern day China and Mongolia, expanding its harsh, rocky terrain over 500,000 square miles. It lies in the heart of Asia's remotest area, between Siberia to the north and the Tibetan Plateau to the south, covering the southern third of Mongolia.
- Geo Explainer: The Gobi Desert - GeographicalBy Victoria Heath. The Gobi, also known as the Gobi Desert, lies across southern Mongolia and northwestern China – a vast desert expanse around 1,600km (1,000 miles) long, 500-1,000km (300 to 600 miles) wide. With an area of around 1.3 million square km (500,000 square miles), it is larger than Germany and France combined.
- Gobi Desert - WikipediaThe 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.
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