Gobi
Gobi, sometimes Govi, is a region in Mongolia that covers the Gobi Desert in Mongolia. The desert itself extends across the border into the western and northern parts of Inner Mongolia in China.
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Gobi
- Type: Desert
- Description: desert in China and Mongolia
- Also known as: “Anialwch Gobi”, “Badain Jaran”, “Bejschan”, “Beljan”, “Cobi”, “Da Gebi”, “Desert de Gobi”, “Desert del Gobi”, “Desert of Gobi”, “Desert of Lop”, “Deserto de Góbi”, “Deserto dei Gobi”, “Deserto di Gobi”, “Deserto do Gobi”, “Desierto de Mongolia”, “Desyerto ng Gobi”, “Desyertong Gobi”, “Disyerto ng gobi”, “Disyertong Gobi”, “Gebi”, “Gobi choʻli”, “Gobi Desert”, “Gobi kõrb”, “Gobi ørkenen”, “Góbi sivatag”, “Gobi tuksnesis”, “Gobi woestijn”, “Gobi Wüste”, “Gobi-dezerto”, “Góbi-sivatag”, “Gobin autiomaa”, “Gobiwoestijn”, “Gobywoastyn”, “Great Desert of Gobi”, “Great Gobi”, “Han-hai”, “Han-hai Ch’ü”, “Hang-hai”, “Hanhai”, “Hànhǎi”, “Ilang ng gobi”, “Ilang ng Gobi”, “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”, “poušť Gobi”, “Pustynia Gobi”, “Pustynya Gobi”, “Samo”, “Šamo”, “Sandmeer”, “Schamo”, “Schamo Sandmeer”, “Sha-mo”, “Sha-moh”, “Shamo”, “Ta Ko-pih”, “Ta-ko-pi”, “Ta-ko-pi-sha-mo”, “Ta-mo”, “The Gobi”, “Wüste Gobi”, “έρημος Γκόμπι”, “Пустиња Гоби”, “Пустыня Гоби”, “გობი”, “بیابان گُبی”, “دشت گبی”, “صحراء غوبي”, “صحرای گبی”, “صحرای گوبی”, “गोबी”, “गोबी रेगिस्तान”, “கோபி பாலை”, “கோபி பாலைநிலம்”, “ഗോബി”, “고비사막”, “ゴビ沙漠”, “大戈壁”, “大漠”, “戈壁滩”, “沙漠”, “瀚海”, “砾漠”, and “翰海”
- Location: Mongolia, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude of center
43° north
Longitude of center
107° east
Elevation
1,547 metres (5,075 feet)
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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”
- Armenian: “Գոբի անապատ”
- Asturian: “Desiertu de Gobi”
- Azerbaijani: “Qobi”
- Bashkir: “Гоби”
- Basque: “Gobi”
- Batak Toba: “Parhorsihan Gobi”
- Belarusian: “Гобі”
- Belarusian: “Пустыня Гобі”
- Bengali: “গোবি মরুভূমি”
- Bosnian: “Pustinja Gobi”
- Breton: “Gobi”
- Bulgarian: “Гоби”
- Burmese: “ဂိုဘီသဲကန္တာရ”
- Catalan: “Gobi”
- Cebuano: “Gobi Desert”
- Central Kurdish: “بیابانی گۆبی”
- Chinese: “戈壁”
- Chuvash: “Гоби”
- Croatian: “Gobi”
- Czech: “Gobi”
- Danish: “Gobi-ørkenen”
- Dimli (individual language): “Gobi”
- Dutch: “Gobi”
- Egyptian Arabic: “صحرا جوبى”
- Esperanto: “Gobio”
- Estonian: “Gobi”
- Extremaduran: “Disiertu’l Gobi”
- Finnish: “Gobi”
- French: “désert de Gobi”
- French: “Désert de Gobi”
- Galician: “Deserto de Gobi”
- Gan Chinese: “戈壁”
- Georgian: “გობის უდაბნო”
- German: “Gobi”
- Greek: “Γκόμπι”
- Greek: “Έρημος Γκόμπι”
- Hausa: “Hamadar Gobi”
- Hebrew: “מדבר גובי”
- Hindi: “गोबी मरुस्थल”
- Hungarian: “Góbi”
- Icelandic: “Góbí eyðimörkin”
- Icelandic: “Góbíeyðimörkin”
- Ido: “Dezerto Gobi”
- Indonesian: “Gurun Gobi”
- Irish: “An Gaineamhlach Ghóibí”
- Italian: “deserto del Gobi”
- Italian: “Deserto del Gobi”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Guobi Dezat”
- Japanese: “ゴビ砂漠”
- Javanese: “Gunung Gobi”
- Kabiyè: “Gobi kañɩnbʊsaɣ”
- Kannada: “ಗೋಬಿ ಮರುಭೂಮಿ”
- Kazakh: “Гоби”
- Kirghiz: “Гоби”
- Korean: “고비 사막”
- Latin: “Desertum Gobium”
- Latvian: “Gobi”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Deserto Gobi”
- Lithuanian: “Gobio dykuma”
- Macedonian: “Гоби”
- Maithili: “गोबी मरुभूमि”
- Malay: “Gurun Gobi”
- Malayalam: “ഗോബി മരുഭൂമി”
- Marathi: “गोबी वाळवंट”
- Mazanderani: “گوبي”
- Mazanderani: “گوبی”
- Mingrelian: “გობიშ ტიოზი”
- Moksha: “Гоби”
- Mongolian: “Говь”
- Nepali: “गोबी मरुभूमि”
- Northern Frisian: “Gobi”
- Northern Sami: “Gobi sáttoáhpi”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gobiørkenen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gobiørkenen”
- Norwegian: “Gobiørkenen”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Desèrt de Gòbi”
- Panjabi: “ਗੋਬੀ ਮਾਰੂਥਲ”
- Persian: “بیابان گبی”
- Polish: “Gobi”
- Portuguese: “Deserto de Gobi”
- Quechua: “Gobi”
- Romanian: “Deșertul Gobi”
- Russian: “Гоби”
- Sanskrit: “गोबीमरुस्थलम्”
- Scots: “Gobi Desert”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Gobi”
- Serbian: “Гоби”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Gobi”
- Sicilian: “Gobi”
- Sindhi: “گوبي ريگستان”
- Slovak: “Gobi”
- Slovenian: “Gobi”
- Spanish: “Desierto de Gobi”
- Spanish: “Desierto del Gobi”
- Spanish: “el Gobi”
- Spanish: “Gobi”
- Swahili: “Jangwa la Gobi”
- Swedish: “Gobiöknen”
- Tagalog: “Disyerto ng Gobi”
- Tajik: “Биёбони Габи”
- Tamil: “கோபி பாலைவனம்”
- Tatar: “Гоби (чүл)”
- Tatar: “Гоби”
- Telugu: “గోబీ ఎడారి”
- Thai: “ทะเลทรายโกบี”
- Tulu: “ಗೋಬಿ ಮರುಭೂಮಿ”
- Turkish: “Gobi Çölü”
- Turkmen: “Gobi çöli”
- Ukrainian: “Гобі”
- Ukrainian: “Ґобі”
- Urdu: “صحرائے گوبی”
- Uzbek: “Gobi”
- Vietnamese: “Gobi”
- Vietnamese: “Sa mạc Gobi”
- Waray (Philippines): “Disyerto Gobi”
- Welsh: “Gobi”
- Western Frisian: “Goby”
- Western Panjabi: “صحرائے گوبی”
- Wu Chinese: “戈壁”
- Yakut: “Гоби”
- Yue Chinese: “戈壁沙漠”
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