WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -The Gobi Desert blankets nearly 500, 000 miles of northern China and southern Mongolia in dry, arid land.

Detailed explanation-3: -Introduction. 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-4: -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.