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ID: 7005227
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7005227

 

Record Type: physical
Hierarchy of Taklimakan Shamo (desert)  Taklimakan Shamo (desert)

Coordinates:
Lat: 38 54 59 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 38.9163  decimal degrees
Long: 082 14 18 E  degrees minutes   Long: 82.2382  decimal degrees

Note: The great desert of Central Asia and one of the largest sandy deserts in the world. It occupies the central part of the Tarim Basin in China.

Names:
Taklimakan Shamo (preferred,C,V,Uyghur (Arabic transcription)-P,U)
Taklimakan Shamo (Chinese (transliterated Pinyin),U,N)
Takela Magan Shamo (C,V,Chinese (transliterated Pinyin without tones)-P,U)
Taklamakhan Desert (C,V)
Takla Makan Desert (C,O,English-P,U,N)
Takla Makan (C,V,English,U)
Takla Makan (Chinese (transliterated),U)
Takla-makan, Wüste (C,V,index,German,U,N)
Takla-makan, Wüste (Chinese (transliterated),U)
Wüste Takla-makan (C,V,display,Chinese (transliterated),U)
T'a-k'o-la-ma-kan Sha-mo (C,V,Chinese (transliterated),U)
T'a-k'o-la-ma-kan Sha-mo (Chinese (transliterated Wade-Giles),U,N)
T'a-k'o-la-ma-k'an Huang-ti (C,V,Chinese (transliterated),U)
Takla Maka Desert (C,V,English,U,N)
Takla-makan Sai (C,V,Chinese (transliterated),U)
Takla-Makan, Pustynya (C,V,Chinese (transliterated),U)
Pustynya Takla-Makan (C,V,Chinese (transliterated),U)
塔克拉玛干沙漠 (C,V,Chinese,U)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Zhongguo (nation)  ........  Zhongguo (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (autonomous region)  ............  Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (autonomous region) (P)
Hierarchy of Taklimakan Shamo (desert)  ................  Taklimakan Shamo (desert) (P)

Place Types:
desert (preferred, C)

Sources and Contributors:
塔克拉玛干沙漠..........  [VP]
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Pustynya Takla-Makan..........  [VP]
...................................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Takela Magan Shamo..........  [VP]
...................................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Takla Maka Desert..........  [VP]
................................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
................................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (2003-2004) accessed 17 March 2004
Takla Makan..........  [VP]
.......................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.......................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (2003-2004) accessed 17 March 2004
.......................  Rand McNally Atlas (Reprinted 1994) I-172
Takla Makan Desert..........  [VP]
...................................  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014) accessed 17 March 2004
...................................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
...................................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 357
Takla-Makan, Pustynya..........  [VP]
......................................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
......................................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (2003-2004) accessed 17 March 2004
Takla-makan Sai..........  [VP]
.............................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.............................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (2003-2004) accessed 17 March 2004
Takla-makan, Wüste..........  [VP]
...................................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
...................................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (2003-2004) accessed 17 March 2004
Taklamakhan Desert..........  [VP]
...................................  AATA database (1995-)
Taklimakan Shamo..........  [VP Preferred]
.............................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.............................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (2003-2004) (as local name), accessed 17 March 2004
.............................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) plate 24
T'a-k'o-la-ma-k'an Huang-ti..........  [VP]
...............................................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
...............................................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (2003-2004) accessed 17 March 2004
T'a-k'o-la-ma-kan Sha-mo..........  [VP]
.........................................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.........................................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (2003-2004) accessed 17 March 2004
Wüste Takla-makan..........  [VP]
................................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014) accessed 17 March 2004
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -1927862
..................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (2003-2004) accessed 17 March 2004; (as local name), accessed 17 March 2004
..................  Rand McNally Atlas (Reprinted 1994) I-172
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) plate 24
..................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 357
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014) accessed 17 March 2004

 

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