The Gobi Desert (Mongolian: Говь, ᠭᠣᠪᠢ, /ˈɡoʊbi/; Chinese: 戈壁; pinyin: gēbì) is a large, cold desert and grassland region in northern China and southern...

The Gobi Desert (French: Le Désert de Gobi) is a 1941 adventure novel by the French writer Pierre Benoit. Set in 1928, the plot revolves around two Russian...

who founded RacingThePlanet in 2002. The Gobi March, the series' inaugural race, was held in the Gobi Desert of western China in 2003. Over the following...

Pamir Mountains to the west, the Tian Shan range to the north, and the Gobi Desert to the east. While most researchers agree on makan being the Persian...

Geographic areas most affected are located in Africa (Sahel region), Asia (Gobi Desert and Mongolia) and parts of South America. Drylands occupy approximately...

quantities of solar energy. English desert and its Romance cognates (including Italian and Portuguese deserto, French désert and Spanish desierto) all come...

rare in regions with this climate. The Gobi Desert in northern China and Mongolia is one example of cold desert. Though hot in the summer, it shares the...

The Desert of Hami (Chinese: 哈密沙漠; pinyin: Hāmì Shāmò, Uyghur: Қумул Қумлуқи) is a section of the Gobi Desert in Xinjiang, China that occupies the space...

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 documents the testimony of survivors of the hard-labor camp in the Gobi Desert in Gansu, China.The film was shot from 2005 to 2017 and covers most of...

The Atacama Desert (Spanish: Desierto de Atacama) is a desert plateau located on the Pacific coast of South America, in the north of Chile. Stretching...

The Kalahari Desert is a large semi-arid sandy savanna in Southern Africa extending for 900,000 square kilometres (350,000 sq mi), covering much of Botswana...

highly fossiliferous geological formation situated in Central Asia, Gobi Desert, dating from the Late Cretaceous period, about 75 million to 71 million...

Travel in a Dead World, Eland. ISBN 1-906-01133-8. Monod, Theodore (1994). Désert libique, Arthaud. ISBN 2-7003-1023-3. Ahmed Hassanein Bey, (2006). The Lost...

The Arabian Desert (Arabic: ٱلصَّحْرَاء ٱلْعَرَبِيَّة) is a vast desert wilderness in West Asia that occupies almost the entire Arabian Peninsula with...

The Tabernas Desert (Spanish: Desierto de Tabernas) is a desert in Spain and Europe, located within Spain's south-eastern province of Almería. It is in...

Ordos from the Gobi Desert north and east of the Yellow River. The northern border serves as the southern border of the Mu Us Desert.[clarification needed]...

The Chihuahuan Desert (Spanish: Desierto de Chihuahua, Desierto Chihuahuense) is a desert ecoregion designation covering parts of northern Mexico and the...

subsection to the Gobi Desert. It is bound to the north by the Gobi and to the East by Mount Lang which separates it from the Ulan Buh Desert (Pinyin: wū lán...

2307/1790942. JSTOR 1790942. Bisson, J. (2003). Mythes et réalités d'un désert convoité: le Sahara (in French). L'Harmattan. Walton, K. (2007). The Arid...

south is the Gobi Desert, some regions of which receive no precipitation at all in most years. The name Gobi is a Mongol word meaning desert, depression...

Taklamakan Desert Xuanzang, a monk in the 7th century The archaeologist Aurel Stein in the 20th century. Charles Blackmore 1993 Gobi Desert has a long...

similarities, and the belief that the desert-dwelling Gobi bear represents a relict population of the blue bear. However, the Gobi bear is sometimes classified...

"Empty Quarter") is the sand desert (erg) encompassing most of the southern third of the Arabian Peninsula. The desert covers some 650,000 km2 (250,000 sq mi)...

The Thar Desert, also known as the Great Indian Desert, is an arid region in the north-western part of the Indian subcontinent that covers an area of...

desert greening in Asia occurred in China in the 1970s, the "Green Great Wall" program, aimed at planting trees along the border of the Gobi Desert to...

the Eastern Desert which extends east from the Nile to the Red Sea. The Western Desert is mostly rocky desert, though an area of sandy desert, known as...

The Karakum Desert, also spelled Kara-Kum and Gara-Gum (Turkmen: Garagum, pronounced [ɢɑɾɑˈɢʊm], from gara ("black") and gum ("sand"); Russian: Караку́мы...

The Katpana Desert or Cold Desert is a high-altitude desert located near Skardu in District Shigar, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. The desert contains large...

it in 1926, the type specimen coming from the Altai Mountains in the Gobi Desert. This is a fairly small vesper bat that ranges in size from 57 to 65 mm...