where is the gobi desert located?
Mongolia
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 Al Anbar is Iraq 's largest and westernmost province . It comprises 32 percent of the country 's total land mass , nearly 53 @,@ 208 square miles ( 137 @,@ 810 km2 ) , almost exactly the size of North Carolina in the United States and slightly larger than Greece . Geographically , it is isolated from most of Iraq , but is easy to access from Saudi Arabia , Jordan , and Syria . The Euphrates River , Lake Habbaniyah , and the artificially created Lake Qadisiyah are its most significant geographical features . Outside of the Euphrates area the terrain is overwhelmingly desert , comprising the eastern part of the Syrian Desert . Temperatures range from highs of 115 ° F ( 46 ° C ) in July and August to below 50 ° F ( 10 ° C ) from November to March . The province lacks significant natural resources and many inhabitants benefited from the Ba 'athist government 's patronage system , funded by oil revenues from elsewhere in the country . 

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 When rain falls in deserts , as it occasionally does , it is often with great violence . The desert surface is evidence of this with dry stream channels known as arroyos or wadis meandering across its surface . These can experience flash floods , becoming raging torrents with surprising rapidity after a storm that may be many kilometers away . Most deserts are in basins with no drainage to the sea but some are crossed by exotic rivers sourced in mountain ranges or other high rainfall areas beyond their borders . The River Nile , the Colorado River and the Yellow River do this , losing much of their water through evaporation as they pass through the desert and raising groundwater levels nearby . There may also be underground sources of water in deserts in the form of springs , aquifers , underground rivers or lakes . Where these lie close to the surface , wells can be dug and oases may form where plant and animal life can flourish . The Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System under the Sahara Desert is the largest known accumulation of fossil water . The Great Man @-@ Made River is a scheme launched by Libya 's Colonel Gadaffi to tap this aquifer and supply water to coastal cities . Kharga Oasis in Egypt is 150 km ( 93 mi ) long and is the largest oasis in the Libyan Desert . A lake occupied this depression in ancient times and thick deposits of sandy @-@ clay resulted . Wells are dug to extract water from the porous sandstone that lies underneath . Seepages may occur in the walls of canyons and pools may survive in deep shade near the dried up watercourse below . 

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 The western area of Termina , the Great Bay , is the site of the Zora and Gerudo civilizations . A gargantuan masked fish , Gyorg , is generating storms and contaminating the water surrounding the Great Bay Temple . 

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 There are two hand @-@ drawn maps . The " Map to illustrate a journey in Nuristan by Eric Newby and Hugh Carless in 1956 " , shows an area of 75 x 55 miles covering the Panjshir valley to the Northwest , and Nuristan and the Pushal valley to the Southeast ; it has a small inset of Central Asia showing the area 's location to the Northeast of Kabul . The other map , " Nuristan " , covers a larger area of about 185 x 140 miles , showing Kabul and Jalalabad to the South , and Chitral and the Pakistan region of Kohistan to the East . 

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 The Gulf of Aqaba lies between the Sinai Peninsula and the Arabian Peninsula , both mostly desert regions with very few permanent settlements . The seismologists who work with historical events gather macroseismic data from written records from cities that may not have been anywhere near the epicentral area . This can result in the mislocation of events when significant damage was reported in a particular location which were not actually where the earthquake occurred . The records of these events have been influenced by the distribution of the population ( where the people were ) and this has caused difficulty in creating a complete and accurate index of historical events . Several studies in the 80s and 90s indicate that there were two or possibly three large earthquakes in the region in the last 2000 years with magnitudes estimated to be 6 @.@ 5 – 7 @.@ 0 based on macroseismic data . 
