• Remains 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.
  • The Gobi is a rain shadow desert, formed by the Himalayan Mountains, which blocks the rain-causing monsoon winds from the Indian Ocean from reaching the area.
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  • Panorama picture of The Flaming Cliffs, Gobi Desert, Mongolia. Composed from several images taken at sunset on the 8/2/2005 by Zoharby.
  • Unlike the romanticized image of deserts with sweeping sand dunes, most of the landscape of The Gobi Desert consists of rocky, hard-packed terrain.
  • One of the most remarkable features of the Gobi Desert is its ever-shifting sandscape, where towering sand dunes rise and fall with the whims of the wind.
  • Occupying 500,000 square miles and stretching across huge chunks of both Mongolia and China, the Gobi Desert is second only to Arabia for deserts in Asia.
  • They call gobi the gray surface of hard pebbles that covers dilluvial plains. Sand dunes are indeed rare in the Gobi Desert.
  • The Gobi Desert located in central to eastern Asia is the sixth-largest desert in the world and the largest in Asia spanning an astounding 1,600 km (1,000 mi).