Taklamakan Desert

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Noun1.Taklamakan Desert - a desert in western China
Cathay, China, Communist China, mainland China, People's Republic of China, PRC, Red China - a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world
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They were flown the long way around China to Hotan situated at the southernmost edge of the Taklamakan Desert, just north of the Himalayas.
Pluto's dunes resemble some on Earth like those in California's Death Valley and China's Taklamakan desert, though their composition differs, Radebaugh said.
An oasis town, it provided weary travellers with respite after a difficult crossing of china's Taklamakan Desert, and it's Sunday market was legendary, where merchants could buy anything from silk to jewels and livestock.
In her latest exhibition in Dubai, Living Shrines, she is presenting a series of photographs of Sufi shrines in the Taklamakan desert in China, built by Uighur Muslim pilgrims.
By bringing the viewer into Taklamakan Desert, she emphasized on how this place's spiritual element conveys the power of faith.
The team will explore and travel along the Taklamakan Desert, Tian Shan mountains, Hindu Kush, Karakorum and Himalaya ranges into the less written Southern arm of the trade route to South Asia where it terminates at Multan in Pakistan before branching out.
Donhuang in northwestern China was at its peak a bustling junction of the Silk Road, with two major branches going westwards, circumventing the Taklamakan desert around its southern and northern peripheries.
The COP in R2 in spring reached the highest value for all the four seasons, which may be due to the influence of the longdistance transport of dust as ice nuclei from the Taklamakan desert in western China and Inner Mongolia in downwind areas [24, 25].
The mostly ethnic Muslim Uighur area of Pishan is at the southern edge of the Taklamakan desert near the border with India, and is rich in mineral resources including coal, crude oil, natural gas and jade.
It also shows how using black light and intricate exploitation of digital photography can reveal pictorial complexity that is barely perceptible to the naked eye on the walls of the catacombs of Kom el-Shouqafa in Egypt, the mummies of the Taklamakan Desert in China and an Etruscan sarcophagus.
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