- Asya haritasında göster. Lop Nur (Çince: 罗布泊; pinyin: Luóbù Pō; Uygurca: لوپنۇر), Çin'in Sincan Uygur Özerk Bölgesi'nde bulunan bir eski bir tuz gölüdür.
- There are also other reasons which have made Lop Nur very famous. Firstly, Lop Nur was situated at the key section of the Silk Road.
- The Lop Nur area has not been permanently inhabited since about 1920, when Uighur bands fled the basin after a plague killed many of them.
- Due to its geological features, Lop Nur has had many names over the centuries - Salt Lake, Puchang Sea and Peacock Sea among them.
- The Kuruk Tagh mountains, an extension of the Tien Shan mountain range, dissect the area north of Lop Nur.
- As early as the Han Dynasty, Lop Nur "is three hundred miles wide, with its water pavilions, which do not increase or decrease in winter and summer".
- Lop Nur has been used as a nuclear testing site, and since the discovery of potash at the site in the mid-1990s it is also the location of a large-scale mining operation.
- In 1964, Lop Nur was the site of the first successful thermonuclear fission test by the Peoples Republic of China, a project which was blandly codenamed “596”.
- Lop Nur , salt basin, SE Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China, in the Tarim River basin. Since 1964, Lop Nur has been used by the China for its nuclear...
- Salt Fields in Former “Wandering” Lake Lop Nur, China - May 13th, 2009 - Earth Snapshot 7 Haziran 2020 tarihinde Wayback Machine sitesinde arşivlendi.
- Satellite picture of the Basin of the former sea of Lop Nur, the concentric shorelines of the vanished lake are visible. Lop Nur is in the northwest portion of China.
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