China desert scenic spot ranking

1, Shapotou Tourism Scenic Spot in Zhongwei (5A Scenic Spot Nature Protection desert park Water Conservancy Scenic Spot)

Shapotou is located at the southeast edge of Tengger Desert in the west of zhongwei, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. It is a national AAAAA-level tourist attraction and a national desert ecological nature reserve. Shapotou integrates desert, Yellow River, mountain and oasis, with magnificent northwest and beautiful south of the Yangtze River.

2. Taklimakan Desert

Taklimakan Desert is located in the center of Tarim Basin in southern Xinjiang. It is the largest desert in China, the tenth largest desert in the world and the second largest mobile desert in the world. The whole desert is about 1000 km long from east to west, covering an area of 330,000 square kilometers. The average annual precipitation does not exceed 100 mm, and at least it is only four or five mm; The average evaporation is as high as 2500 ~ 3400 mm.

3. Gurbantunggut Desert

Gurbantonggut Desert is the second largest desert in China, located in the middle of Junggar Basin in Xinjiang, east of Manas River and south of Wulungu River. It is also the largest fixed and semi-fixed desert in China, covering an area of about 48,800 square kilometers, with an altitude of 300-600 meters and abundant water sources.

It consists of four deserts, namely, the Bugle Desert in Bougourd in the west, the Huojingneixin Desert in the east, the Dezosoten Ellison Desert in the middle and the Kubbe-Akkum Desert in the north. Junggar basin belongs to temperate arid desert. There are sand ridges in the southwest of the desert-honeycomb sand dunes and honeycomb sand dunes, and several tall composite sand ridges appear in the south. Mobile dunes are concentrated in the eastern part of the desert, mostly belonging to crescent dunes and dune chains.

4. Tengger Desert

Tengger Desert is located in the southwest of Alashan Zuo Qi, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, on the central border of Gansu, crossing the Great Wall in the south, Helan Mountain in the east and Laishan Mountain in Ya Bu in the west. It is 240 kilometers long from north to south and 0/60 kilometers wide from east to west, with a total area of about 43,000 square kilometers. It is the fourth largest desert in China. It is located in the east of Alashan Desert and at the bottom of Yining Basin.

The administrative division of Tengger Desert mainly belongs to Alashan Zuo Qi, and its western and southeastern edges belong to Minqin of Gansu, Wuwei of Ningxia and Zhongwei respectively. The desert includes Nanjiling in the north and Tengger in the south, which is commonly called Tengger Desert. Inland there are sand dunes, lake basins, grass beaches, mountains, residual hills and plains.

5. Ulan Buh Desert

Wulanbuhe Desert is located in Bayannaoer City and Alashan League in the west of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Wulanbuhe Desert is the northeast of Alashan Desert, located at the northeast bottom of Yihe Basin. Wulanbuhe Desert reaches Langshan in the north and Hetao Plain in the northeast. East of the Yellow River, south to the northern foot of Helan Mountain and west to Jilantai Salt Pond.

6. Kubuqi Desert

Kubuqi Desert is the seventh largest desert in China. "Kubuqi" is Mongolian, which means the string on the bow. It is named because it hangs on the Yellow River like a string under it. In ancient times, it was called "Kujesha" and "Broken Shana", also known as "Punasha". Kubuqi Desert is the nearest desert to Beijing.

Located in the northern part of the ridge line of Ordos Plateau, in some areas of Hanggin Banner, Dalat Banner and Zhungeer Banner in Ordos City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The total area is about 1.86 thousand square kilometers, and the mobile sand dunes account for about 6 1%, with a length of 400 kilometers and a width of 50 kilometers. The sand dune is10-60m high, lying like a yellow dragon in the north of Ordos Plateau, across the Three Banners in Inner Mongolia. The landform is dominated by sand dune chains and lattice sand dunes.

7. Hunshandake Sandy Land

Hunshandake Sandy Land is one of the top ten desert sandy lands in China. Located at the southern end of Xilin Gol grassland in central Inner Mongolia, it is the nearest sand source to Beijing with a linear distance of 180 km. Hunshandake sandy land is about 450 kilometers long from east to west, covering an area of about 52,000 square kilometers, with an average elevation of 1 100 meters. It is one of the four sandy lands in central and eastern Inner Mongolia.

8. Badain Jaran Desert Tourist Area

Badain Jaran Desert is the main part of Alashan Desert, located at the bottom of Yining Basin in the west of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, and is one of the four major deserts in China, with a total area of 47,000 square kilometers. Bayannaoer and Quijote dunes are the highest dunes in the world. The annual precipitation in Badain Jaran Desert is less than 40mm, but there are more than 100 lakes in the desert.