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The Taklamakan Desert (/ ˌ t æ k l ə m ə ˈ k æ n / TAK-lə-mə-KAN) is a desert in northwest China's Xinjiang region.Located inside the Tarim Basin in Southern Xinjiang, it is bounded by the Kunlun Mountains to the south, the Pamir Mountains to the west, the Tian Shan range to the north, and the Gobi Desert to the east.
Roblox is in the midst of a growth push, and the company's strategy aims to attract older users, which Baszucki touted. "We've actually stopped using the term 'aging up' right now," he said. "We ...
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 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.
Newly published documents by Motherboard offer a rare insight into the steps some companies will take to comply with China’s censorship laws. Leaked documents show the hoops Roblox jumped ...
Karen legends refer to a "river of running sand" which their ancestors reputedly crossed. Many Karen believe this refers to the Gobi Desert, although they have lived in Myanmar for centuries. Most scholars dismiss the notion of a Gobi desert crossing, but rather translate the legend as describing "rivers of water flowing with sand".
The Hexi Corridor (/ h ə ˈ ʃ iː / hə-SHEE), [a] also known as the Gansu Corridor, is an important historical region located in the modern western Gansu province of China.It refers to a narrow stretch of traversable and relatively arable plain west of the Yellow River's Ordos Loop (hence the name Hexi, meaning 'west of the river'), flanked between the much more elevated and inhospitable ...
The Great Green Wall, officially known as the Three-North Shelter Forest Program (simplified Chinese: 三北防护林; traditional Chinese: 三北防護林; pinyin: Sānběi Fánghùlín), also known as the Three-North Shelterbelt Program, is a series of human-planted windbreaking forest strips (shelterbelts) in China, designed to hold back the expansion of the Gobi Desert, [1] and provide ...