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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 name of the desert comes from the Mongolian word gobi, used to refer to all of the waterless ...
Gobi Desert (45 P) Pages in category "Deserts of Mongolia" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. D.
The Eastern Gobi desert steppe is a deserts and xeric shrublands ecoregion in Mongolia and northern China. It is the easternmost of the ecoregions that make up the larger Gobi Desert. It lies between the more humid Mongolian–Manchurian grassland on the north, east, and southeast, and the drier Alashan Plateau semi-desert to the west. [1]
Far view of the Flaming Cliffs. The Flaming Cliffs site (also known as Bayanzag (Chinese: 巴彥扎格), Bain-Dzak or Bayn Dzak) [1] (Mongolian: Баянзаг rich in saxaul), with the alternative Mongolian name of Mongolian: Улаан Эрэг (red cliffs), is a region of the Gobi Desert in the Ömnögovi Province of Mongolia, in which important fossil finds have been made.
Khongoryn Els sand dunes. Mongolia has three types of deserts, and some of it has enough grass for livestock to graze, but the Khongoryn Els, in the extreme south of the Gobi Desert, has a huge range of sand dunes – 6–12 kilometres (3.7–7.5 mi) wide, 100 kilometres (62 mi) long (180 kilometres (110 mi) is also mentioned [5]) [6] and rising to a height of 80 metres (260 ft) (a maximum ...
Gobi Lakes Valley desert steppe (Mongolia, China) Great Lakes Basin desert steppe ( Mongolia , Russia ) Junggar Basin semi-desert ( China , Mongolia , Kazakhstan )
The southern portion of Mongolia is taken up by the Gobi Desert, while the northern and western portions are mountainous. At 1,564,116 km 2 (603,909 sq mi), Mongolia is the world's 18th-largest country. [47] It is significantly larger than the next-largest country, Peru.
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. [1]