Geography • World GeographyEasy
The 'Taklamakan Desert', known for its shifting sand dunes and extreme continental climate, is primarily located in which autonomous region of China?
A. Inner Mongolia
B. Tibet
C. Xinjiang✓ Correct Answer
D. Guangxi
💡 Solution & Explanation
The Taklamakan Desert occupies the Tarim Basin in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China, flanked by major mountain systems that create a hyper-arid rain shadow climate. Inner Mongolia hosts the Gobi Desert instead.
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