Lop Nur
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Lop Nur or Lop Nor is a now largely dried-up salt lake formerly located within the Lop Depression in the eastern fringe of the Tarim Basin in the southeastern portion of the Xinjiang Autonomous Region
Satellite picture of the Basin of the former sea of Lop Nur; the concentric shorelines of the vanished lake are visible.
Mushroom cloud of the first Chinese nuclear weapon test, Project 596, at Lop Nur in 1964
Mask from second millennium BCE
Tarim Basin
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The Tarim Basin is an endorheic basin in Xinjiang, Northwestern China, occupying an area of about 888,000 km2 and the largest basin in Northwest China. Located in China's Xinjiang region, it is someti
Lop Nur
…where "Lop" is a toponym of unknown origin) is a now largely dried-up salt lake formerly located within the Lop Depression in the eastern fringe of the Tarim Basin in the southeastern portion of the Xinjiang Autonomous Region, northwestern China, between the Taklamakan and Kumtag deserts. Administratively, the…
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The Tarim Basin is the oval desert in Central Asia.
Tarim Basin, ancient boat-shaped coffins
Tarim mummies, found in westernmost Xinjiang, in the Tarim Basin.