Gobi Desert
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| Length | 1,500 km (930 mi) |
| Width | 800 km (500 mi) |
| Area | 1,295,000 km2 (500,000 sq mi) |
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| Region | Inner Mongolia |
| Coordinates | 42°35′N 103°26′E / 42.59°N 103.43°E |
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| Chinese | 戈壁 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Mongolian Cyrillic | Говь | ||||||||||||||||||
| Mongolian script | ᠭᠣᠪᠢ | ||||||||||||||||||
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The Gobi Desert (Mongolian: Говь, ᠭᠣᠪᠢ, /ˈɡoʊbi/; Chinese: 戈壁; pinyin: gēbì) is a large, cold desert and grassland region in North China and southern Mongolia. 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.