Where is the Taklimakan Desert located?

The Taklimakan Desert is located in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

The Taklimakan Desert is located in the center of the 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 entire desert is about 1,000 kilometers long from east to west and 400 kilometers wide from north to south, covering an area of ??330,000 square kilometers. The average annual precipitation does not exceed 100 millimeters, with the lowest being only four to five millimeters; while the average evaporation is as high as 2,500 to 3,400 millimeters.

Taklimakan Desert, a cursed city submerged under the desert in Uyghur legend. The word "Taklamagan" is divided into two parts, "Taklamakan" and "Magan", where "Taklamakan" means "underground", "below"; "Magan" means "field", "homeland", " "A place of life"; therefore "Taklimakan" means "a city under the ground" or "a city underground".

Taklimakan Desert Landform

The surface of the Taklimakan Desert is formed by loose alluvial deposits hundreds of meters thick. This alluvial layer is affected by the wind, and the sand cover it moves by the wind is up to 300 meters thick. Wind-formed terrain features are diverse, and dunes of all shapes and sizes can be seen.

The larger dune chain has a considerable amplitude: 30 to 150 meters high, 240 to 503 meters wide, and the distance between chains is 0.8 to 5 kilometers. The highest landform formed by wind is the pyramid-shaped sand dune, which is 195 to 300 meters high. In the eastern and central parts of the desert, the desert is dominated by a network of sunken dunes and huge, complex dune chains.

It is also common in the western part of the desert (east of the Hotan River Valley), where both transverse and longitudinal (referring to wind) terrain forms exist. Such a variety of wind-formed topographic features is a result of the complex wind conditions in the basin.

The above content refers to Baidu Encyclopedia-Taklimakan Desert