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Gobi

Gobi, sometimes Govi, is a region in that covers the Gobi Desert in Mongolia. The desert itself extends across the border into the western and northern parts of in .
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is the capital of province. Outside of the city are many hot springs, rivers, lakes, oases, and the Great Gobi A National Park.

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is the capital of Ömnögovi province, 575 km south from . This town of 25,000 people is the base for explorations into the .

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is the capital of in . It is located in the eastern Gobi Desert steppe, on the Trans-Mongolian Railway.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Altai and Mandalgovĭ.

is the capital city of Govĭ-Altai province. Straddling the western edge of the Gobi Desert where the Mountains rise out of the sands, the region seems to symbolize emptiness.

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Mandalgovi is the capital of the of , about 300 km south of on the border of the Gobi Desert. It has 10,506 inhabitants, 10,299. The city administrative unit's official name is Saintsagaan sum.

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Zamiin-Üüd is a small town in the Dornogovi province of . It's also often spelt as .

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is in the central part of Gobi region, in southern . The place has many sand dunes but with sparse vegetations which is much different than other deserts of the world.

Gobi

  • Type: Desert
  • Description: desert in China and Mongolia
  • Also known as: “Beljan”, “Cobi”, “Da Gebi”, “Desert of Gobi”, “Desert of Lop”, “Gebi”, “Gobi Desert”, “Gobi Wüste”, “Great Desert of Gobi”, “Great Gobi”, “Han-hai”, “Han-hai Ch’ü”, “Hang-hai”, “Hanhai”, “Kalmack Desert”, “Kalmuk”, “Kara Kathay”, “Kara-kathay”, “Ko-lo-pai Shan-mo”, “Ko-pi”, “Ko-pi-sha-mo”, “Ko-pih”, “Kwopi Shamo”, “Lop”, “Lop Desert”, “Pustynya Gobi”, “Samo”, “Sandmeer”, “Schamo Sandmeer”, “Sha-mo”, “Sha-moh”, “Shamo”, “Ta Ko-pih”, “Ta-ko-pi”, “Ta-ko-pi-sha-mo”, “Ta-mo”, and “The Gobi”
  • Location: , ,
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Latitude of center
43° north
Longitude of center
107° east
Elevation
1,547 metres (5,075 feet)
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5329390721
Geo­Names ID
2031269
Wiki­data ID
Q42070
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Gobi” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Gurôn Gobi”
  • Afrikaans: “Gobi”
  • Albanian: “Shkretëtira e Gobit”
  • Arabic: “صحراء جوبي”
  • Arabic: “صحراء غوبي”
  • Armenian: “Գոբի անապատ”
  • Asturian: “Desiertu de Gobi”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qobi”
  • Bashkir: “Гоби”
  • Basque: “Gobi”
  • Batak Toba: “Parhorsihan Gobi”
  • Belarusian: “Гобі”
  • Belarusian: “Пустыня Гобі”
  • Bengali: “Говь”
  • Bengali: “গোবি মরুভূমি”
  • Bengali: “戈壁”
  • Bengali: “沙漠”
  • Bosnian: “Pustinja Gobi”
  • Breton: “Gobi”
  • Bulgarian: “Гоби”
  • Burmese: “ဂိုဘီသဲကန္တာရ”
  • Catalan: “Desert de Gobi”
  • Catalan: “Desert del Gobi”
  • Catalan: “Gobi”
  • Cebuano: “Gobi Desert”
  • Central Kurdish: “بیابانی گۆبی”
  • Chinese: “Hànhǎi”
  • Chinese: “大戈壁”
  • Chinese: “大漠”
  • Chinese: “戈壁”
  • Chinese: “戈壁沙漠”
  • Chinese: “戈壁滩”
  • Chinese: “瀚海”
  • Chinese: “砾漠”
  • Chinese: “翰海”
  • Chuvash: “Гоби”
  • Croatian: “Gobi”
  • Croatian: “Pustinja Gobi”
  • Czech: “Gobi”
  • Czech: “poušť Gobi”
  • Danish: “Gobi ørkenen”
  • Danish: “Gobi-ørkenen”
  • Danish: “Gobiørkenen”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Gobi”
  • Dutch: “Gobi woestijn”
  • Dutch: “Gobi”
  • Dutch: “Gobiwoestijn”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “صحرا جوبى”
  • Esperanto: “Dezerto Gobi”
  • Esperanto: “Gobi-dezerto”
  • Esperanto: “Gobi”
  • Esperanto: “Gobio”
  • Estonian: “Gobi kõrb”
  • Estonian: “Gobi”
  • Extremaduran: “Disiertu’l Gobi”
  • Finnish: “Gobi”
  • Finnish: “Gobin autiomaa”
  • French: “Desert de Gobi”
  • French: “désert de Gobi”
  • French: “Désert de Gobi”
  • French: “Gobi”
  • Galician: “Deserto de Gobi”
  • Galician: “Deserto do Gobi”
  • Galician: “Gobi”
  • Gan Chinese: “Gobi Desert”
  • Gan Chinese: “戈壁”
  • Georgian: “გობი”
  • Georgian: “გობის უდაბნო”
  • German: “Badain Jaran”
  • German: “Bejschan”
  • German: “Gobi”
  • German: “Schamo”
  • German: “Wüste Gobi”
  • Greek: “Γκόμπι”
  • Greek: “έρημος Γκόμπι”
  • Greek: “Έρημος Γκόμπι”
  • Hausa: “Hamadar Gobi”
  • Hebrew: “מדבר גובי”
  • Hindi: “गोबी मरुस्थल”
  • Hindi: “गोबी रेगिस्तान”
  • Hindi: “गोबी”
  • Hungarian: “Góbi sivatag”
  • Hungarian: “Góbi-sivatag”
  • Hungarian: “Góbi”
  • Icelandic: “Góbí eyðimörkin”
  • Icelandic: “Góbíeyðimörkin”
  • Ido: “Dezerto Gobi”
  • Indonesian: “Gurun Gobi”
  • Irish: “An Gaineamhlach Ghóibí”
  • Italian: “Deserto dei Gobi”
  • Italian: “deserto del Gobi”
  • Italian: “Deserto del Gobi”
  • Italian: “Deserto di Gobi”
  • Italian: “Gobi”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Guobi Dezat”
  • Japanese: “ゴビ沙漠”
  • Japanese: “ゴビ砂漠”
  • Javanese: “Gunung Gobi”
  • Kabiyè: “Gobi kañɩnbʊsaɣ”
  • Kannada: “ಗೋಬಿ ಮರುಭೂಮಿ”
  • Kazakh: “Гоби”
  • Kirghiz: “Гоби”
  • Korean: “고비 사막”
  • Korean: “고비사막”
  • Latin: “Desertum Gobium”
  • Latvian: “Gobi tuksnesis”
  • Latvian: “Gobi”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Deserto Gobi”
  • Lithuanian: “Gobio dykuma”
  • Macedonian: “Гоби”
  • Maithili: “गोबी मरुभूमि”
  • Malay: “Gobi”
  • Malay: “Gurun Gobi”
  • Malayalam: “Gobi Desert”
  • Malayalam: “ഗോബി മരുഭൂമി”
  • Malayalam: “ഗോബി”
  • Marathi: “गोबी वाळवंट”
  • Mingrelian: “გობიშ ტიოზი”
  • Moksha: “Гоби”
  • Mongolian: “Говь”
  • Nepali: “गोबी मरुभूमि”
  • Northern Frisian: “Gobi”
  • Northern Sami: “Gobi sáttoáhpi”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Gobi-ørkenen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Gobi”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Gobiørkenen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gobi-ørkenen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gobi”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gobiørkenen”
  • Norwegian: “Gobiørkenen”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Desèrt de Gòbi”
  • Panjabi: “ਗੋਬੀ ਮਾਰੂਥਲ”
  • Persian: “بیابان گبی”
  • Persian: “بیابان گُبی”
  • Persian: “دشت گبی”
  • Persian: “صحرای گبی”
  • Persian: “صحرای گوبی”
  • Polish: “Gobi”
  • Polish: “Pustynia Gobi”
  • Portuguese: “Deserto de Gobi”
  • Portuguese: “Deserto de Góbi”
  • Portuguese: “Deserto do Gobi”
  • Portuguese: “Gobi”
  • Quechua: “Gobi”
  • Romanian: “Deșertul Gobi”
  • Romanian: “Gobi Desert”
  • Romanian: “Gobi”
  • Russian: “Гоби”
  • Russian: “Пустыня Гоби”
  • Sanskrit: “गोबीमरुस्थलम्”
  • Scots: “Gobi Desert”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Gobi Desert”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Gobi”
  • Serbian: “Гоби”
  • Serbian: “Пустиња Гоби”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Gobi”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Pustinja Gobi”
  • Sicilian: “Gobi”
  • Sindhi: “گوبي ريگستان”
  • Slovak: “Gobi”
  • Slovenian: “Gobi”
  • Slovenian: “Šamo”
  • Spanish: “Desierto de Gobi”
  • Spanish: “Desierto de Mongolia”
  • Spanish: “Desierto del Gobi”
  • Spanish: “el Gobi”
  • Spanish: “Gobi”
  • Swahili: “Jangwa la Gobi”
  • Swedish: “Gobi Desert”
  • Swedish: “Gobiöknen”
  • Tagalog: “Desyerto ng Gobi”
  • Tagalog: “Desyertong Gobi”
  • Tagalog: “Disyerto ng gobi”
  • Tagalog: “Disyerto ng Gobi”
  • Tagalog: “Disyertong Gobi”
  • Tagalog: “Gobi Desert”
  • Tagalog: “Gobi”
  • Tagalog: “Ilang ng gobi”
  • Tagalog: “Ilang ng Gobi”
  • Tajik: “Биёбони Габи”
  • Tamil: “கோபி பாலை”
  • Tamil: “கோபி பாலைநிலம்”
  • Tamil: “கோபி பாலைவனம்”
  • Telugu: “గోబీ ఎడారి”
  • Thai: “ทะเลทรายโกบี”
  • Tulu: “ಗೋಬಿ ಮರುಭೂಮಿ”
  • Turkish: “Gobi Çölü”
  • Turkmen: “Gobi çöli”
  • Ukrainian: “Гобі”
  • Ukrainian: “Ґобі”
  • Urdu: “صحرائے گوبی”
  • Uzbek: “Gobi choʻli”
  • Uzbek: “Gobi”
  • Vietnamese: “Gobi”
  • Vietnamese: “Sa mạc Gobi”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Disyerto Gobi”
  • Welsh: “Anialwch Gobi”
  • Welsh: “Gobi”
  • Western Frisian: “Goby”
  • Western Frisian: “Gobywoastyn”
  • Western Panjabi: “صحرائے گوبی”
  • Wu Chinese: “戈壁”
  • Yakut: “Гоби”
  • Yue Chinese: “戈壁沙漠”

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