- The
Taklamakan Desert (/ˌtækləməˈkæn/ TAK-lə-mə-KAN) is a
desert in
northwest China's
Xinjiang region.
Located inside the
Tarim Basin in
Southern Xinjiang...
- "
Taklamakan" is a
short story by
American writer Bruce Sterling. It was
first published in the 1998 Oct/Nov
volume of Asimov's
Science Fiction. The story...
- reforms. China's
landscape is vast and diverse,
ranging from the Gobi and
Taklamakan Deserts in the arid
north to the
subtropical forests in the
wetter south...
- also
known as the Cross-Desert
Highway (CDH) or
Taklamakan Desert Highway,
crosses the
Taklamakan Desert in China.
There are now
three highways: two...
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Badain Jaran Gobi Gurbantünggüt Hami Lop
Kumtag Ordos Kubuqi Mu Us
Qaidam Taklamakan Tengger South Asia
Cholistan Indus Valley Katpana Kharan Thal Thar Iranian...
- the
southern edge of what is now
called the
Tarim Basin, the
infamous Taklamakan desert, and the Gobi Desert. A
number of
important rivers flow from the...
- The
chain of
cities along the
northern route along the
Taklamakan,
probably based on
Bento de Góis's itinerary, from
Hiarcan (Yarkand) to
Cialis (Karasahr...
-
Taklamakan Expedition, and was the
first Westerner to
reach the
ancient oasis of Niya and
Loulan since the 1930s. The
Second International Taklamakan...
-
around 30,000 to 50,000 Äynu people,
mostly located on the
fringe of the
Taklamakan Desert. The
origins of the Äynu
people are disputed. Some
historians theorize...
- Hami (Kumul), as
forming a
separate and
independent desert,
called the
Taklamakan Desert. Much of the Gobi is not sandy,
instead resembling exposed bare...
