File:Region_of_Kyzyl_Kum.png · Wikimedia Commons · See Wikimedia Commons
Kyzyl Kum is a large desert located in Central Asia, spanning parts of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan. It is one of the world's largest deserts and plays an important role in the geography and climate of the Central Asian region.
AI-generated from the Wikipedia summary — may contain errors.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- desert
- Country
- Uzbekistan
- Continent
- Asia
- Area
- 298000
- Image
- Dzhangeldy Uzbekistan 2008.JPG
Show 2 more facts
- Commons category
- Kyzyl Kum
- native label
- Qyzylqūm
Sources (1)
via Wikidata · CC0
~5 min read
Encyclopedic overview
The Kyzylkum Desert (Uzbek: Qizilqum; Kazakh: Qyzylqūm) is the 15th largest desert in the world. Its name means 'Red Sand' in Turkic languages. It is located in Central Asia, in the land between the confluent rivers Amu Darya and Syr Darya, a region historically known as Transoxania. Today it is divided among Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. It covers about 298,000 km (115,000 sq mi).
Geography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kyzyl Kum” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Gallery (5)
On the map
Available in 73 languages
- Español
- Français
- Deutsch
- 中文
- 日本語
- Русский
- Português
- Italiano
- العربية
- हिन्दी
- Albanian
- Armenian
- Azerbaijani
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Bangla
- Bashkir
- Basque
- Belarusian
Show 54 more
- Bulgarian
- Catalan
- Croatian
- Czech
- Egyptian Arabic
- Esperanto
- Estonian
- Finnish
- Georgian
- Greek
- Hebrew
- Hungarian
- Kannada
- Kara-Kalpak
- Karachay-Balkar
- Kazakh
- Kyrgyz
- Latin
- Latvian
- lbe
- Lithuanian
- Macedonian
- Malay
- Malayalam
- Mazanderani
- Mongolian
- Nederlands
- Northern Frisian
- Norwegian
- Norwegian Nynorsk
- Occitan
- Polski
- Punjabi
- Romanian
- Scottish Gaelic
- Serbian
- Serbian (Latin)
- Sindhi
- Slovak
- Slovenian
- Svenska
- Tamil
- Telugu
- Tiếng Việt
- Türkçe
- Ukrainian
- Upper Sorbian
- Urdu
- Uzbek
- Western Frisian
- Western Panjabi
- Wu Chinese
- فارسی
- 한국어
via Wikidata sitelinks · CC0