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Sand dunes in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China Flaming Cliffs in Mongolia Sacred ovoo in the Gobi Desert The sand dunes of Khongoryn Els, Gurvansaikhan NP, Mongolia Remnants of the Great Wall of China in the Gobi Desert. The Gobi is overall a cold desert, with frost and occasionally snow occurring on its dunes. Besides being quite far ...
The Mongolian-Manchurian grassland (Chinese: 蒙古高原草原-内蒙古草原-东北草原) covers an area of 887,300 square kilometers (342,600 sq mi).This temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands ecoregion of the Palearctic realm forms a large crescent around the Gobi Desert, extending across central and eastern Mongolia into the eastern portion of Inner Mongolia and eastern and ...
The park lies on the northern edge of the Gobi Desert. The higher elevations contain areas of steppe, and reach elevations of up to 2,600 meters. A number of rare plants and animals are found in the park, including the elusive snow leopard and the Gobi camel. Areas of sand dunes are found, most famously the Khongoryn Els - the Singing Sands.
Khongoryn Els sand dunes. Mongolia has three types of deserts, and some of it has enough grass for livestock to graze, but the Khongoryn Els, in the extreme south of the Gobi Desert, has a huge range of sand dunes – 6–12 kilometres (3.7–7.5 mi) wide, 100 kilometres (62 mi) long (180 kilometres (110 mi) is also mentioned [5]) [6] and rising to a height of 80 metres (260 ft) (a maximum ...
Great Gobi B Strictly Protected Area is a nature reserve in Gobi Desert, situated in the southwestern part of Mongolia at the border with China. A similar reserve in a drier part of the Gobi exists further to the east - the Great Gobi A Strictly Protected Area.
In northeastern Mongolia the Onon River drains into the Pacific Ocean through the Shilka River in Russia and the Amur (Heilong Jiang) rivers, [2] forming the tenth longest river system in the world. The southern portion of Mongolia is taken up by the Gobi Desert, while the northern and western portions are mountainous.
Far view of the Flaming Cliffs. The Flaming Cliffs site (also known as Bayanzag (Chinese: 巴彥扎格), Bain-Dzak or Bayn Dzak) [1] (Mongolian: Баянзаг rich in saxaul), with the alternative Mongolian name of Mongolian: Улаан Эрэг (red cliffs), is a region of the Gobi Desert in the Ömnögovi Province of Mongolia, in which important fossil finds have been made.
Image Location Year listed UNESCO criteria Description Desert Landscapes of the Mongolian Great Gobi several sites 2014 viii, ix, x (natural) This nomination comprises three large areas in the Gobi Desert: Great Gobi Strictly Protected Area – Part A and Part B, and Small Gobi Strictly Protected Area – Part B. The harsh landscape with vast ...