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)...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

well as a body of loanwords and names found in Prakrit documents from the Lop Nor basin. Kurdish writings were first translated into Arabic in the 9th century...