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Dzungaria

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Dzun·gar·i·a  (dzng-gâr-, zng-)
A vast historical region of northwest China. It was a Mongol kingdom from the 11th to the 14th century and was conquered by the Chinese in the 1750s.

Dzungaria [dzʊŋˈgɛərɪə zʊŋ-]
n
(Placename) a variant transliteration of the Chinese name for Junggar Pendi


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Wells were sunk to depths as deep as 660 m in thick layers of sediments in the rapidly subsidizing Dzungaria (Junggar) Basin on the north side of the Tianshan Mountains.
 
 
 
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