Taklamakan Desert

English

Proper noun

the Taklamakan Desert

  1. Synonym of Taklamakan: A cold desert in the Xinjiang autonomous region, China, the largest desert entirely contained in China.
    • 1908 November 13, “Salt Lakes.”, in Woburn Journal, volume LVIII, number 52, Woburn, Mass., →OCLC, page 1, column 6:
      The terrible Taklamakan desert, too, in which Hedin nearly died of thirst, was once the bed of just such a lake.
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