The Lop Desert, or the Lop Depression, is a desert extending from Korla eastwards along the foot of the Kuruk-tagh (meaning Dry Mountain) to the former...
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Lop Nur or Lop Nor (Oirat: ᠯᠣ᠊ᠫ ᠨᡇᡇᠷ, romanized: Lob nuur, from an Oirat Mongolic name meaning "Lop Lake", where "Lop" is a toponym of unknown origin)...
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spoken in Lop County, China Lop Desert, a desert in China Lop Nur, a group of small, now seasonal salt lake sand marshes Lop rabbit, several breeds of rabbits...
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(500 mi) from north to south. The desert is widest in the west, along the line joining the Lake Bosten and the Lop Nor (87°–89° east). Its area is approximately...
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List of deserts (redirect from African desert)
desert in southwestern Afghanistan Kyzyl Kum – a desert in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan Kara Kum – a large desert in Central Asia Lop Desert – a desert in...
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the Lop Desert. The term Loulan is the Chinese transcription of the native name Kroraïna and is used to refer to the city near the brackish desert lake...
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connected on the west with the Desert of Lop. This classic account is that of Nikolai Przhevalsky, who crossed the desert from Hami (or Khumul) to Suchow...
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coordinates) This list is of the archaeological sites of the Taklamakan Desert and Lop Desert in China. International Dunhuang Project Stein, Aurel (1928). Innermost...
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at the north-eastern end of the Taklamakan Desert near the great, but now mostly dry, salt lake known as Lop Nur. The kingdom was originally an independent...
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thin spire of relatively soft rock usually topped by harder rock Lop Desert – Desert in China Mushroom rock – Naturally occurring rock whose shape resembles...
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