Hunshandak desert

Hunshandake sandland 浑善达克 沙地
location	People's Republic of China Inner Mongolia
part of	Gobi desert
Coordinates	43 ° 0 ′  N , 115 ° 0 ′  E Coordinates: 43 ° 0 ′  N , 115 ° 0 ′  E
rock	Sand dunes
surface	(1,970) 20,850 km 2 . (1,980) 23,200 km 2 . (1,990) 26,550 km 2 . (2,005) 38,000 km 2 . (2,013) 52,000 km²

The Hunshandak Desert or Hunshandake Desert ( Chinese  混 善 达克 沙漠 , Pinyin Hunshandake Shamo or 混 善 达克沙 地 , Hunshandake Shadi ), also known as the Little Tengger Desert ( 小 腾 格里 沙漠 , Xiao Tenggeli Shamo ), is a desert in the south of the Xilin Gol Federation of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in the People's Republic of China , about 180 km from Beijing. As part of an environmental protection program, a four hundred kilometer long and one to ten kilometer wide strip of trees, bushes and grass has been created on the southern edge of the desert.

See also

• List of Chinese deserts
• Tengger desert

Web links

• Once devastated steppes are turning green again
• Inner Mongolia improves air quality in Beijing

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jin, HeLing, LiangYing Sun, and Zhong Sun. "Millennial-scale evolution of Hunshandake Desert and climate change during the Holocene in Inner Mongolia, northern China." Sciences in Cold and Arid Regions 2.6 (2010): 505-513. ( PDF )
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Kang, Xiang-wu1, et al. "Research on Spatio-Temporal Change of Sandy Desertification in Hunshandake." Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 23.1 (2009): 1-6. ( PDF )
3. ↑ 丁国栋, et al. "浑善达克 沙地 草场 资源 评价 与 载畜量 研究." 生态学 杂志 24.9 (2005): 1038-1042. ( PDF )
4. ↑ Gong, Zhijun, et al. "Environmental changes in Hunshandake (Otindag) sandy land revealed by optical dating and multi-proxy study of dune sands." Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 76 (2013): 30-36. ( PDF )
5. ↑ http://german.cri.cn/401/2008/04/22/[e-mail]