Jangwa la Gobi

Jangwa la Gobi (kwa Kiingereza: Gobi Desert; kwa lugha ya Mandarin linaitwa Gobi, 戈壁, yaani brushland) ni jangwa kubwa la Asia likienea kwa kilomita mraba 1,295,000.

Linaenea kaskazini mwa China na kusini mwa Mongolia, kusini kwa milima ya Altai.

Sababu yake ni kwamba nyanda za juu za Tibet huzuia mvua kutoka Bahari ya Hindi zisifike hadi Gobi.

Katika historia ni maarufu kama sehemu ya Dola la Mongolia na mahali pa miji muhimu ya Silk Road.

Tanbihi

Marejeo

 Owen Lattimore. (1973) "Return to China's Northern Frontier". The Geographical Journal, Vol. 139, No. 2 (June 1973), pp. 233–242.

Marejeo mengine

 Cable, Mildred and French, Francesca (1943) The Gobi Desert Landsborough Publications, London, OCLC 411792.
 Man, John (1997) Gobi: Tracking the Desert Yale University Press, New Haven, .
 Stewart, Stanley (2001) In the Empire of Genghis Khan: A Journey among Nomads HarperCollins Publishers, London, .
 Thayer, Helen (2007) Walking the Gobi: 1,600 Mile-trek Across a Desert of Hope and Despair Mountaineer Books, Seattle, WA, .
 Younghusband, Francis (1904) The Heart of a Continent, John Murray.

Viungo vya nje

 Map, from "China the Beautiful"
 Flickr: Photos tagged with gobi

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Category:jiografia ya China
Category:jiografia ya Mongolia