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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 located in northern China and southern Mongolia. It is the sixth largest desert in the world .
The Ladakh region and the city of Leh in the Great Himalayas in India also have a cold desert climate. In North America, the cold desert climate occurs in the drier parts of the Great Basin Desert and the Bighorn Basin in Big Horn and Washakie County in Wyoming. The Hautes Plaines, located in the northeastern section of Morocco and in Algeria ...
The Central Asian northern desert is an ecoregion in the deserts and xeric shrublands biome, located in the Central Asian countries of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.The annual precipitation ranges from 100 to 150 mm (4 to 6 in), the winters are cold at −10 to −15 °C (14 to 5 °F) and the summers hot at around 25 °C (77 °F).
Kara Kum – a large desert in Central Asia; Lop Desert – a desert in China; Ordos – a desert in northern China Kubuqi Desert – a desert in northern China; Mu Us Desert – a desert in northern China; Gobi – a desert in Mongolia and China Badain Jaran Desert – a desert in China; Hami Desert – a desert in China; Tengger Desert – a ...
A major environmental issue in China is the continued expansion of its deserts, particularly the Gobi Desert. [ 57 ] [ 58 ] Although barrier tree lines planted since the 1970s have reduced the frequency of sandstorms , prolonged drought and poor agricultural practices have resulted in dust storms plaguing northern China each spring, which then ...
Siberians like Mr. Bochkarev, muttle through the extreme cold, as residents of the Desert Southwest lumber through a hot summer. That said, the resilience of Oymyakon, Yakutsk, and Siberia is ...
Gobi Desert (Asia) 1,295,000 500,002 7 Kalahari Desert (Africa) 900,000 347,492 8 ... Cold deserts, sometimes known as temperate deserts, occur at higher latitudes ...
The Southern sections of Asia are mild to hot, while far northeastern areas such as Siberia are very cold, and East Asia has a temperate climate. The highest temperature recorded in Asia was 54 °C (at Ahvaz Airport, Iran on June 29, 2017, and at Tirat Zvi, Israel on June 21, 1942).