Tengger Desert

The Tengger Desert or Tengri Desert (Mongolian: Тэнгэр элс, Chinese: 腾格里沙漠; pinyin: Ténggélǐ Shāmò; lit. 'Sky Desert') is an aridnatural region that covers about 36,700 km and is mostly in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in China, with a small portion extending into northwestern Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region.

The desert is expanding in size.