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)...

explorers as to the exact location of Lop Nor, and the lake was thus referred to as the "Wandering Lake." In the past Lop Nur was a huge marsh in the eastern...

is widest in the west, along the line joining the Lake Bosten and the Lop Nor (87°–89° east). Its area is approximately 1,295,000 square kilometres (500...

Bosten Lake Qinghai Lake Namtso Siling Lake Ulungur Lake Yamdrok Lake Lop Nor Dabusun Lake Kunteyi Lake Manas Lake Lakes of China include: China portal...

by the People's Republic of China, detonated on 16 October 1964, at the Lop Nur test site. It was a uranium-235 implosion fission device made from weapons-grade...

conducted over China from 9 November 1969 to 20 March 1971 to spy on the Lop Nor nuclear test site. The USAF's 4200th Support Squadron, based at Beale Air...

good years. An exception is the Qiemo River which flows northeast into Lop Nor. Ruins in the desert imply that these rivers were once larger. The original...

hanglu yarkandensis), also known as the Theenivs deer, Tarim deer, or Lop Nor stag, is a subspecies of the Central Asian red deer that is native to the...

Chinese controlled the strategic region from the Ordos and Gansu corridor to Lop Nor. They separated the Xiongnu from the Qiang people on the south and gained...

its first fission weapon, with a yield of 3.31 Mt. It took place in the Lop Nor Test Site in northwest China. China had received extensive technical help...