WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Eastern Gobi desert steppe, the easternmost of the Gobi ecoregions, covering an area of 281, 800 km2 (108, 804 sq mi). It extends from the Inner Mongolian Plateau in China northward into Mongolia.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Gobi desert covers the southern part of Mongolia, northern and northwestern parts of China. The Gobi desert area covers 1.3 million square kilometers, the fifth-largest desert in size, and is elevated approximately 1500 m above sea level.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Gobi Desert blankets nearly 500, 000 miles of northern China and southern Mongolia in dry, arid land.

Detailed explanation-4: -In China, the word’gobi’ is used to describe deserts and semi-deserts paved with gravel or rock debris, while’shamo’ is restricted to sandy deserts.) These deserts occupy a total area of about 1, 095, 000 km2, of which about 637, 000 km2 are sandy desert and 458, 000 km2 are gobi.

Detailed explanation-5: -Ancient China was bordered by two of the world’s largest deserts: the Gobi Desert to the north and northwest and the Takla Makan Desert to the west. These two deserts helped to protect China from outside invaders, but they also limited Chinese expansion.