Karakum Desert


English Wikipedia - The Free EncyclopediaDownload this dictionary
Karakum Desert
The Karakum Desert, also spelled Kara-Kum and Gara-Gum (, ; ; ), is a desert in Central Asia. Its name means Black Sand in Turkic languages. It occupies about 70 percent, or 350,000 km², of the area of Turkmenistan.

See more at Wikipedia.org...


© This article uses material from Wikipedia® and is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License and under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License