Gobi Desert facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Gobi Desert (Говь) |
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 Gobi Desert landscape in Ömnögovi Province, Mongolia
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| Countries | Mongolia, China |
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| Mongolian Aimags | Bayankhongor, Dornogovi, Dundgovi, Govi-Altai, Govisümber, Ömnögovi, Sükhbaatar |
| Chinese Autonomous Region | Inner Mongolia |
| Range | Govi-Altai Mountains |
| Landmark | Nemegt Basin |
| Length | 1,500 km (932 mi), SE/NW |
| Width | 800 km (497 mi), N/S |
| Area | 1,295,000 km² (500,002 sq mi) |
The Gobi ( Mongolian: Говь,Govi , "semidesert"; Chinese: 戈壁; pinyin: Gēbì ) is in Mongolia and China. It is the largest desert in Asia, and the fifth large Govist in the world.
The Gobi is a rain shadow desert, caused by the Tibetan Plateau and the Himalayas shielding it from rain.
The desert basins of the Gobi are bounded by the Altai Mountains and the grasslands and steppes of Mongolia on the north, by the Hexi Corridor and Tibetan Plateau to the southwest, and by the North China Plain to the southeast. The Gobi is made up of several pieces of geological and geographic regions.
Climate
The Gobi is a high plateau with daily and seasonal extremes of temperature.
| Sivantse (1190 m) | Ulaanbaatar (1150 m) | |
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| Annual mean | −2.5 °C (27.5 °F) | 2.8 °C (37.0 °F) |
| January mean | −26.5 °C (−15.7 °F) | −16.5 °C (2.3 °F) |
| July mean | 17.5 °C (63.5 °F) | 19.0 °C (66.2 °F) |
| Extremes | −43 to 38 °C (−45 to 100 °F) | −47 to 38.6 °C (−53 to 101 °F) |
- Owen Lattimore. (1973) "Return to China's Northern Frontier." The Geographical Journal, Vol. 139, No. 2 (Jun., 1973), pp. 233–242.
- Cable, Mildred and French, Francesca (1943) The Gobi Desert London. Landsborough Publications, OCLC 411792
- Man, John (1997) Gobi: Tracking the Desert Yale University Press, New Haven, ISBN: 0-300-07609-6
- Stewart, Stanley (2001) In the Empire of Genghis Khan: A Journey among Nomads Harper Collins Publishers, London, ISBN: 0-00-653027-3.
- Thay'er, Helen (2007) Walking the Gobi: 1,600 Mile-trek Across a Desert of Hope and Despair Mountaineer Books, Seattle, WA, ISBN: 978-1-59485-064-6
- Young husband, Francis (1904) The Heart of a Continent John Murray
Images for kids
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Gobi by NASA World Wind
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Sand dunes in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China
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Flaming Cliffs in Mongolia
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Sacred ovoo in the Gobi Desert
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The sand dunes of Khongoryn Els, Gurvansaikhan NP, Mongolia
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Remains of the Great Wall of China in the Gobi Desert
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Bactrian camels in the Bayankhongor Province of Mongolia
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Alxa Left Banner, Inner Mongolia, China
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See also
In Spanish: Desierto de Gobi para niños
