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Gobi Desert

desert in China and Mongolia
Place Desert Q42070

Facts

14 properties

Identity

Instance of
desert
Native label
Говь, ᠭᠣᠪᠢ, 戈壁[17][18][19]

Location

Country
People's Republic of China, Mongolia[2][3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 42.500°, 103.000°
Continent
Asia[4]

Population and size

Area
+2354460
Elevation above sea level
+1547[21]
Highest point
Bogd Khan Mountain[5]
Length
+1500[20]
More facts +5
Described by source
Svensk uppslagsbok, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 3, Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[6][7][8][9][10][11][12]
Ecoregion (WWF)
Eastern Gobi Desert steppe, Alashan Plateau semi-desert, Gobi Lakes Valley desert steppe[13][14][15]
Köppen climate classification
cold desert climate[22]
Lowest point
Nemegt Basin[16]
On focus list of Wikimedia project
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[23]
🏷️ Also known as
en Kalmack Desert en Hanhai en Kalmuk en Ko-pih en Kara-kathay en Kara Kathay en Lop en Ta Ko-pih en Lop Desert en Samo en Shamo en Beljan en Cobi en Da Gebi en Desert of Lop en Gebi en Gobi en Gobi Desert en Hang-hai en Han-hai
🔖 Identifiers · 42
VIAF cluster ID
243456761
Library of Congress Authorities ID
sh85055504
GND ID
4093637-5
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Mongolia (35427009881).jpg ↗
Arab Encyclopedia concept ID
10845
BBC Things ID
e6e7532f-80d2-449e-b624-ddc5e9c0ad2d
Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online ID
gobi
Comic Vine ID
4020-58524
Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026)
28jdIw
Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) old ID (2021)
47k (47k–228k, n=3)
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
place/Gobi
Encyclopædia Universalis ID
desert-de-gobi
Show all 42 identifiers +30
Freebase ID
/m/0ff0d
GNS Unique Feature ID
-2349835
GeoNames ID
2031269
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
1103377
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
gobi
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0030293
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
Gobi
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
2365746
Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID
gobi-491f4d
Harper's tag
gobi-desert, gobi-desert-mongolia-and-china
Interlingual Index ID
i84822
J9U entity ID
987007533766905171
KBpedia ID
GobiDesert
Lex ID
Gobi
NDL Authority ID
00628517
NE.se ID
gobi
NL CR AUT ID
ge311544
Namuwiki ID
고비 사막
Online PWN Encyclopedia ID
3906272
Quora topic ID
Gobi-Desert-1
Reddit topic ID (obsolete)
gobi_desert
SNARC ID
Chrząszczew
SVKKL authority ID
0271721-Gobi-Mongolsko-a-cina-poust
ScienceDirect topic ID
earth-and-planetary-sciences/gobi-desert
Topic's main category
Category:Gobi Desert
Vikidia article ID
it:Deserto_del_Gobi, fr:Désert_de_Gobi
Wellcome Collection concept ID
jks93w52
WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
09192698-n
YSO ID
217904
Yale LUX ID
place/ae9e54c2-ad2c-4545-b88d-31e4b48a6281
📚 Sources · 1
  • GeoNames as of 2026-09-26 · 1 statement · CC BY 4.0 CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.

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Located in time zoneP421
Asia/Ulaanbaatar 2026-09-26 T/DSRT · MN GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
where from?
Source
GeoNames
Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
Bronze
1da92a6323a5fec3… admin1CodesASCII.txt +9 files
Transform
4ort-mint · lake · version not recorded
CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
🔗 Connections
Described by source 4
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Svensk uppslagsbok, Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary
← Located in/on physical feature 3
Gobi Gurvansaikhan National Park, Flaming Cliffs, Bayan Shireh Formation
Country 2
People's Republic of China, Mongolia
Ecoregion (WWF) 2
Alashan Plateau semi-desert, Eastern Gobi Desert steppe
← Location of discovery 2
Khulsanurus, Gobiazhdarcho
← Narrative location 2
The Travels of Marco Polo, One Second
Continent 1
Asia
Highest point 1
Bogd Khan Mountain
Instance of 1
desert
Located in this place 1
Nemegt Formation
Lowest point 1
Nemegt Basin
Named after 1
GGobi
On focus list of Wikimedia project 1
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
People who died here 1
Ja Lama
SNARC ID 1
Chrząszczew
Topic's main category 1
Category:Gobi Desert
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Gobi Desert
← Endemic to 1
Mongolian death worm
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Summary

Gobi Desert is a desert[1].

Body

Cultural Significance

Things named for Gobi Desert include GGobi[24], a statistical package[25].

Why It Matters

Entities named for it include GGobi[24], a statistical package[25].

🛰️ Living Edge · news-derived, source-cited

high ≥ 0.90 · emerging ≥ 0.65 · low below — calibrated against hand-rated truth (single-source .44 · two-source .62 · production-typical .70), so a band is a measurement, not a promise. High is rare by design: it needs both a supported assertion and an evidence sentence. A confirmed or contradicted chip is a Wikidata cross-check; no chip means Wikidata has no value for that property — the ordinary case here, and it says nothing either way. A confirm-only note marks a property whose check can never disagree (Wikidata's border and capital data is not exhaustive), so silence there is a limit of the check, not of the claim.

served-tier precision 80.7% [76.2, 84.5] · rated rows currently served n=342 · entailment-gated at 0.85 · measured 2026-09-29 · re-scored every 10 min, demoted at the half-hourly fold

Located in the administrative territorial entity Mongolia emerging0.76confirmed2 independent sources

evidence “Among them the host country, Mongolia, where 77% of land is already degraded and where Gobi desert “swallows” thousands of hectares every year.” euronews.com · read source

Related Entities

Mongolia People's Republic of China

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [25] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 11d ago · Chalmd · 2026-10-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    BBC Things ID → e6e7532f-80d2-449e-b624-ddc5e9c0ad2d
    "Created claim: BBC Things ID: e6e7532f-80d2-449e-b624-ddc5e9c0ad2d, Adding BBC Things ID"
  2. 17w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → gobi-desert, gobi-desert-mongolia-and-china
    "Created claim: Harper's tag: gobi-desert, Matched to gobi desert (#289933886) in Harper's tag"
  3. 20w ago · Yirba · 2026-06-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026) → 28jdIw
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #37444: Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026) (Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026)) 2"
  4. 24w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Described by source → Svensk uppslagsbok, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary +4
    Continent → Asia
    Coordinate location → {'lat': 42.5, 'lon': 103}
    Instance of → desert
    + 11 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Changed claim qualifiers: YSO ID: 217904, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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