Gurbantünggüt

See also: Gurbantunggut

English

Alternative forms

• Gurbantunggut
• Gubantunggut (misspelling)

Etymology

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Proper noun

Gurbantünggüt

1. A desert that occupies a large part of the Junggar Basin in Northern Xinjiang, in the northwest of the People's Republic of China.

   Synonyms: Dzoosotoyn Elisen Desert, Gurbantünggüt Desert

   Holonym: Dzungaria

   • 2010, Yalikun Tashi, Philippe C. Chamard, Marie-Françoise Courel, Tashpolat Tiyip, Yiliminuer Tuerxun, Sam Drake, “The Recent Evolution of the Oasis Environment in the Taklimakan Desert, China”, in Graciela Schneier-Madanes, Marie-Françoise Courel, editors, Water and Sustainability in Arid Regions: Bridging the Gap Between Physical and Social Sciences‎^[1], Springer, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 52:

     The principal cities in the Junggar Basin are Urumqi, Shehezi, Ghulja, Karamay, Altay, and Changji, and the basin holds China's second largest desert, the Gurbantünggüt.

   • 2020, Grassland Ecosystems of China‎^[2], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 447:

     In the Gurbantünggüt desert (44° 11'–46° 20'N, 84° 31'–90° 00'E) of Xinjiang, a study of algal populations growing on the soil surface of a desert rangeland dominated by Haloxylon persicum and H. ammodendron identified 121 algal species that belong to 49 genera, 21 families, and 4 phyla or subkingdoms (Cyanophyta, Chlorophyta, Bacillariophyta, and Euglenophyta each including 83, 20, 11, and 7 species, respectively (Zhang et al. 2005).

Translations

desert in Xinjiang

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 古爾班通古特 / 古尔班通古特 (Gǔ'ěrbāntōnggǔtè)

• French: Dzoosotoyn Elisen, Gurbantunggut
• Kazakh: Құрбантұңғыт (Qūrbantūñğyt)
• Persian: قربان‌تونغوت
• Russian: Дзосотын-Элисун (Dzosotyn-Elisun)