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The fourth-largest desert in China, the Tengger Desert covers about 15,444 square miles (40,000 square kilometers), most of which lies in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region and the Shapotou District of Zhongwei, Ningxia Province. The southern region of the Tengger Desert is sometimes called the Shapotou Desert. Shapotou is the site of the Shapotou Desert Experimental Research Station (SDERS), on the banks of the Yellow River on the south edge of the Tengger’s dune sea, where research focuses principally on the use of microbial mats and grasses to stabilize the dunes. |
