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Gobi Desert
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The Gobi is a large, cold desert and grassland region spanning southern Mongolia and North China, the sixth largest desert in the world at roughly 1.3 million square kilometers. Unlike most hot deserts it can carry frost and occasional snow on its dunes. Its Mongolian name, Gov, means dryland.
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The Gobi Desert's own Wikipedia entry states that some geographers and ecologists treat its western area as a separate desert, the Taklamakan, rather than as part of the Gobi itself.
What would resolve this A geomorphological and ecological survey establishing where the Taklamakan's dune sea and dry climate genuinely diverge from the Gobi's cold steppe-desert character, agreed on by the physical geography community.
Physical geographyGobi Desert (Wikipedia)
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