GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -The Gobi Desert basin lies across southern Mongolia and northwestern China between the Mongolian Altai and Khangai mountains and the Himalayan Plateau (see map in Fig. 1). This region is a cold desert with a continental climate and long, cold winters.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Gobi Desert cuts across both Mongolia and northern China. Location of the Gobi Desert: Mongolia is a country north of China. It has a rapidly changing economy.

Detailed explanation-3: -Gobi, also called Gobi Desert, great desert and semidesert region of Central Asia. The Gobi (from Mongolian gobi, meaning “waterless place”) stretches across huge portions of both Mongolia and China.

Detailed explanation-4: -These landforms have in turn created some of the largest and most extreme deserts in the world. China has one the worlds largest desert basins, the Tarim Basin and the Taklimakan Desert just north of the Tibetan Plateau.