Badain Jaran Desert
Badain Jaran Desert—Towers of Sand and Lakes is part of the Tentative list of China in order to qualify for inclusion in the World Heritage List.
Badain Jaran Desert is located in the Alashan Plateau in the hyper-arid and temperate desert region of northwestern China and contains concentrated distribution of mega-dunes with a relative height of more than 200 metres, and the inter-dunal lake basins. It is an ideal place for the study of the ongoing evolutionary processes of desert geomorphology in the temperate extreme arid desert region.
Map of Badain Jaran Desert
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Site Info
- Full Name
- Badain Jaran Desert—Towers of Sand and Lakes
- Country
- China
- Added
- 2019
- Nominated for
- 2024
- Type
- Natural
- Categories
- Natural landscape - Desert
- Link
- By ID
Site History
2021 Postponed
Due to Covid reasons