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Definition of Gobi desert
1. Noun. A desert in central China.
Generic synonyms: Desert
Group relationships: Cathay, China, Communist China, Mainland China, People's Republic Of China, Prc, Red China, Mongolia, Mongolian People's Republic, Outer Mongolia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gobi Desert
Literary usage of Gobi desert
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1895)
"Fort, from south bank of river, 420 Valley, looking south, 416 gobi desert, view
in the, 563 Hindu Kuan, A Lost Snowpeak, 410 , Midsummer sno» fields ..."
2. Overland to China by Archibald Ross Colquhoun (1900)
"Monotony and melancholy are, however, the chief features of the gobi desert.
The desert stretches south almost to the verge of China Proper, from which it ..."
3. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1882)
"The geographical position of the gobi desert is, in the average, between the 35th
and 45th degrees of northern latitude, and consequently almost under the ..."
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