Gobi Desert

Gobi Desert
Gobi Desert
Chinese name
Chinese	戈壁
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Gēbì
Bopomofo	ㄍㄜㄅㄧˋ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh	Gebih
Wade–Giles	Ko-pi4
IPA	[kɤ́.pî]
other Mandarin
Xiao'erjing	قْبِ
Mongolian name
Mongolian Cyrillic	Говь
Mongolian script	ᠭᠣᠪᠢ
SASM/GNC
Transcriptions
SASM/GNC	Gowĭ

Gobi Desert
Gobi Desert
Length	1,500 km (930 mi)
Width	800 km (500 mi)
Area	1,295,000 km2 (500,000 sq mi)
Naming
Native name	戈壁 (沙漠) (Chinese); Говь (ᠭᠣᠪᠢ) (Mongolian);
Geography
Countries	Mongolia; China;
State	Ömnögovi; Sükhbaatar; Govi-Altai;
Region	Inner Mongolia
Coordinates	42°35′N 103°26′E / 42.59°N 103.43°E

The Gobi Desert (Mongolian: Говь, ᠭᠣᠪᠢ, /ˈɡoʊbi/; Chinese: 戈壁; pinyin: gēbì) is a large, cold desert and grassland region in southern Mongolia and North China. It is the sixth-largest desert in the world.

The name of the desert comes from the Mongolian word gobi, used to refer to all of the waterless regions in the Mongolian Plateau; in Chinese, gobi is used to refer to rocky, semi-deserts such as the Gobi itself rather than sandy deserts.^[1]

^ Chao SC (1984). "The sandy deserts and the gobi of China". In Farouk El-Baz (ed.). Deserts and arid lands. pp. 95–113. doi:10.1007/978-94-009-6080-0_5. ISBN 978-94-009-6082-4.

[1] Chao SC (1984). "The sandy deserts and the gobi of China". In Farouk El-Baz (ed.). Deserts and arid lands. pp. 95–113. doi:10.1007/978-94-009-6080-0_5. ISBN 978-94-009-6082-4.

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