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The Lop Desert is on the whole flat, but with three slightly more depressed areas which might form lakes if filled with water - the Lop Nur dried basin, Kara-Koshun dried basin and the Taitema Lake basin. [1] These formed, at one time or another, the terminal lakes of the Tarim-Konque-Qarqan river system. The Tarim River changes its course ...
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Lop Nur or Lop Nor (Oirat: ᠯᠣ᠊ᠫ ᠨᡇᡇᠷ, romanized: Lob nuur, from an Oirat Mongolic name meaning "Lop Lake", where "Lop" is a toponym of unknown origin [1]) is a now largely dried-up salt lake formerly located within the Lop Depression in the eastern fringe of the Tarim Basin in the southeastern portion of the Xinjiang Autonomous Region, northwestern China, between the Taklamakan ...
[3] [4] [5] [1] The term Loulan is the Chinese transcription of the native name Kroraïna and is used to refer to the city near the brackish desert lake Lop Nur as well as the kingdom. The kingdom was renamed Shanshan ( 鄯善 ) after its king was assassinated by an envoy of the Han dynasty in 77 BCE; [ 6 ] however, the town at the northwestern ...
The northern part of Lop County is made up of sand dunes and ends in a straight line drawn in the Taklamakan Desert that forms part of the boundary between Hotan Prefecture and Aksu Prefecture. The Hotan River forms the boundary with Karakax County .
The climate classification is Cold desert climate" (Köppen climate classification "BWk" ). [2] Parts of the area receive an average of only 10–20 mm of precipitation per year, with an average 4,000 mm/year evaporation. The Lop Nur Reserve is in the east of the Taklamakan Desert ecoregion.
Surrounded by desert, some rivers feed the oases where the water is used for irrigation while others flow to salt lakes and marshes. The Tarim Basin, 2008. Lop Nur is a marshy, saline depression at the east end of the Tarim Basin. The Tarim River ends in Lop Nur. The Tarim Basin is believed to contain large potential reserves of petroleum and ...
Loulan tomb mural, 220-420 CE. Loulan Museum. Shanshan (Chinese: 鄯善; pinyin: Shànshàn; Uyghur: پىچان, romanized: Pichan, lit. 'Piqan') was a kingdom located at the north-eastern end of the Taklamakan Desert near the great, but now mostly dry, salt lake known as Lop Nur.