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Description and photographs of the Gobi Desert and a number of essays on Mongolian life and culture.
The Gobi (Chinese: 戈壁(沙漠) Gēbì (Shāmò); Mongolian: Говь, Govi or Gov', meaning, gravel-covered plain) is the largest desert region in Asia. It covers area in China and southern Mongolia. The desert basins of the Gobi are bounded by the Altai Mountains and the grasslands and...
The desert holds such animals as the gobi bear, ibex and the black-tailed gazelle.
Gobi, extensive desert area of southern Mongolia and northern China. The largest desert in Asia, it is also known as Shamo, the Chinese word for sand.
The Gobi Desert in northeastern China is a windswept, nearly treeless wasteland. The Gobi ranks as the coldest, northernmost desert in the world and covers more than 1,300,000 sq km (500,000 sq mi).
The desert basins of the Gobi are bounded by the Altay Mountains and the grasslands and steppes of Mongolia on the north, by the Tibetan Plateau to the southwest, and by the North China Plain to the ...
Gobi (gō'bē) [key], Mandarin Yintai shamo, great stony desert of N central Asia, c.500,000 sq mi (1,295,000 sq km), extending c.1,000 mi (1,610 km) from east to west across SE Mongolia and N China ...
Gobi means "waterless place." It is a desert in Asia that is approximately 500,000 square miles, ... Only 5% of the Gobi is sand dunes. The desert is broken by the hills of the Altai Mountains, ...
Gobi Desert, northeast of Dalanzadgad, Mongolia Photograph by Hessberg and Schulze ... The Eastern Gobi Desert Steppe extends from the Inner Mongolian Plateau (China), situated at 1 ...
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