Gobi Desert | Gobi Desert and its specialty
Where is the Gobi Desert and its specialty?
- The Gobi is a desert region of Central Asia. Gobi is a Mongolian word which means 'place without water'.
- It is spread over vast parts of both Mongolia and China.
- The Gobi Desert is bounded by the Altai Mountains and the grasslands of Mongolia to the north and the Tibetan Plateau to the southwest and the North China Plain to the southeast.
- It is one of the largest desert in the world.
- It is the fifth largest desert in the world and the largest desert in Asia.
- The Gobi Desert covers a total area of 1,623 square kilometres.
- The Gobi is one of the coldest deserts in the world, where the temperature drops to minus forty degrees.
- The Gobi Desert is spread over most of Mongolia in the continent of Asia.
- Like the Sahara desert, this desert can also be divided into three parts - 1. Takla Makan Desert 2. Alashan Desert 3. Muas or Ordis Desert
- Most of the Gobi desert is not sandy but rocky.
- The average amount of rainfall in the Gobi Desert ranges from 50 to 100 mm. Is. Most of the rainfall here occurs during the summer season.
- Plants called Saksol with woody and drought resistant properties are found in abundance here.
- The Gobi desert is believed to be the home of the 'Bacitorian camel', which has two humps.
- The special bears of the deserts of the world are found in this desert. The species of these bears 'Mazalai' or 'Gobi' has now reached the verge of extinction.
- Wild horses, squirrels and small reindeer are also found here.
- Sometimes snow storms and hot sand storms also occur here.
- Grass and thorny shrubs are mainly found in the vegetation.
- Mongols are the main caste here.
- In the 7th century, the famous Chinese traveler Hiuen Tsang came to India through this Gobi desert and then went back to China.
- Troubled by a cloud of dust ('yellow dragon') rising from the Gobi desert, China has built a wall of trees through plantations from the outskirts of the capital Beijing to the interior of Mongolia.
- The Gobi Desert has been part of the great Mongol Empire in the past and has been the site of several important cities connected by the Silk Road.