Taukum ( kk, Тауқұм) is a

desert A desert is a barren area of landscape where little precipitation occurs and, consequently, living conditions are hostile for plant and animal life. The lack of vegetation exposes the unprotected surface of the ground to denudation. About on ...

in the

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Geography

Taukum is a sandy desert that lies in the southwestern part of the Balkhash-Alakol Basin. It extends to the south of the lower course of the

Ili River The Ili ( ug, ئىلى دەرياسى, Ili deryasi, Ili dəryasi, 6=Или Дәряси; kk, Ile, ; russian: Или; zh, c=伊犁河, p=Yīlí Hé, dng, Йили хә, Xiao'erjing: اِلِ حْ; mn, Ил, literally "Bareness") is a river sit ...

, from the southern end of

Lake Balkhash Lake Balkhash ( kk, Балқаш көлі, ''Balqaş kóli'', ; russian: озеро Балхаш, ozero Balkhash) is a lake in southeastern Kazakhstan, one of the largest lakes in Asia and the 15th largest in the world. It is located in the ea ...

to the Bozoi Plateau. The Maizharylgan and the

Chu-Ili Range The Chu-Ili Range ( kk, Шу-Іле таулары) is a range of mountains in Kazakhstan. Administratively it is part of the Almaty Region, Almaty and Zhambyl Region, Zhambyl regions. The M36 Highway (Kazakhstan), M36 Highway skirts the range alo ...

rise to the south of the desert. Lake

Itishpes Itishpes ( kk, Итішпес; russian: Итишпес) is a salt lake in the Balkhash-Alakol Basin, part of Balkhash District, Almaty Region, and Moiynkum District, Zhambyl Region, Kazakhstan. The lake is one of a number of lakes in the region t ...

is at the northwestern end. The height of the sand dunes is between and .Таукум
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. - 3rd ed. - M. Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-1978. (in Russian)

Flora

The vegetation between sandy areas is made up of shrubs and grasses typical of arid zones, including

sagebrush Sagebrush is the common name of several woody and herbaceous species of plants in the genus ''Artemisia''. The best known sagebrush is the shrub ''Artemisia tridentata''. Sagebrushes are native to the North American west. Following is an alph ...

saltwort Saltwort is a common name for various genera of flowering plants that thrive in salty environments, typically in coastal salt marshes and seashores, including: :*''Salsola'' and related genera within subfamily ''Salsoloideae'' :*''Salicornia'' :*'' ...

, dzhuzgun, wormwood,

saxaul ''Haloxylon'' is a genus of shrubs or small trees, belonging to the plant family Amaranthaceae. ''Haloxylon'' and its species are known by the common name saxaul. According to Dmitry Ushakov, the name borrowed from the Kazakh "seksevil". In moder ...

and

wheatgrass Wheatgrass is the freshly sprouted first leaves of the common wheat plant (''Triticum aestivum''), used as a food, drink, or dietary supplement. Wheatgrass is served freeze dried or fresh, and so it differs from wheat malt, which is convecti ...

. There is a narrow stretch of

riparian forest A riparian forest or riparian woodland is a forested or wooded area of land adjacent to a body of water such as a river, stream, pond, lake, marshland, estuary, canal, sink or reservoir. Etymology The term riparian comes from the Latin word '' ...

by the banks of the Ili river, at the northern limit of the desert.''Kazakhstan National Encyclopedia.'' - Almaty: Kazakh encyclopedias, 2006. - T. V. -ISBN 9965-9908-5-9

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Kazakhstan (2/6): Kolshengel, Taukum Desert & Topar Lakes
Deserts of Central Asia Deserts of Kazakhstan Almaty Region {{Kazakhstan-geo-stub

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