Dzungharia

— However, the continuity of the desert climate is preserved into east Asia across the narrow divide between the Dzungharian Ala-Tau and the Mali Tau, a break in the low mountain rampart historically known as the Dzungharian Gates, leading into the higher elevations of the desert plains of Dzungharia. Dzungharia is the northern region of China’s northwest province of Sinkiang.[…] East of Dzungharia and the Tarim basin and separated from these by low, grass-mantled ranges of steppe land is the Gobi desert.