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08-OCT-2002
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© Luis Curran |
Taklamakan Desert
Xinjiang Province
Taklamakan is one of the largest sandy deserts in the world, ranking 15th in size in a ranking of the world's largest non-polar deserts.
The name is probably an Uyghur borrowing of Arabic tark, "to leave alone/out/behind, relinquish, abandon" + makan, "place". Popular accounts wrongly claim that Takla Makan means "go in and you will never come out".
