The town of Liqian sits on the edge of the Gobi desert, 200 miles from any metropolis, and 4,500 miles from Rome.
Under Mongolian law, any fossil specimen found in the Gobi Desert must stay in the possession of a Mongolian institution.
This was the Desert of Gobi, called golden because it opened the way to wealth.
We were profoundly puzzled about what he was seeking in the Gobi.
It must be owned that the Gobi is not as black as it is painted.
The other extends over the table-lands of Thibet and the Gobi.
They style themselves, as well as the place they inhabit, Gobi.
The central portion of this enormous area is called the Desert of Gobi.
Khingans, The, a range of volcanic mountains on the E. of the desert of Gobi.
I did not wish to be caught in the desert of Gobi in winter.
desert in central Asia, from Mongolian gobi "desert." Gobi Desert is thus a pleonasm (see Sahara).