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Gobi Desert | |
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Length | 1,500 km (930 mi) |
Width | 800 km (500 mi) |
Area | 1,295,000 km2 (500,000 sq mi) |
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Region | Inner Mongolia |
Coordinates | 42°35′N 103°26′E / 42.59°N 103.43°E |
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Chinese | 戈壁 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Mongolian Cyrillic | Говь | ||||||||||||||||||
Mongolian script | ᠭᠣᠪᠢ | ||||||||||||||||||
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The Gobi Desert (Mongolian: Говь, ᠭᠣᠪᠢ, /ˈɡoʊbi/; 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 regions in the Mongolian Plateau; in Chinese, Gobi is used to refer to rocky, semi-deserts such as the Gobi itself rather than sandy deserts.[1]