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the Gobi Desert noun uk /ˌɡəʊ.bi ˈdez.ət/ us /ˌɡoʊ.bi ˈdez.ɚt/ a large desert in northern China and southern Mongolia: She imagined she was planning an exotic camel trek through the Gobi Desert. The harrowing journey across the Gobi Desert is particularly well reported. Beijing is situated in an inland basin that is frequently swept by sandstorms from the Gobi Desert. Three times the size of France, a third of Mongolia is covered by the Gobi Desert. It is thought that there are about 1,000 wild Bactrian camels in the Gobi Desert in China and Mongolia. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Geography: deserts, prairies & wildernesses alpine tundra brush bush Bushman desert dust bowl heathland marginal land moor moorland mulga pasture plain Sahara tundra veld virgin wadi waste wasteland |