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Gobi Desert

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Gobi Desert

Desert, Central Asia. One of the great desert and semidesert regions of the world, the Gobi stretches across Central Asia over large areas of Mongolia and China. It occupies an arc of land 1,000 mi (1,609 km) long and 300–600 mi (500–1,000 km) wide, with an estimated area of 500,000 sq mi (1,300,000 sq km). Contrary to the image often associated with a desert, much of the Gobi is not sandy but covered with bare rock.



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Byline: Jade Wright THE crew and passengers of a cargo plane are left stranded in the Gobi desert after a crash, and embark on a desperate plan to return to civilisation - by building a new plane out of the wreckage of the old one.
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