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The 10 pages that link to Taklamakan Desert, each with the reason it gives.

• Tarim BasinBroader topic: Its shifting dunes cover the basin’s central lowlands.

• Hexi CorridorRelated: The corridor’s northern approach connected travelers to routes skirting this desert.

• Lop NurRelated: Lop Nur’s dried basin became part of this arid desert landscape.

• KashgarRelated: Its impassable interior pushed caravan traffic toward oasis towns such as Kashgar.

• Tarim RiverRelated: The river crosses the desert’s margins, sustaining a narrow corridor of life.

• Wild Bactrian camelRelated: Wild Bactrian camels historically ranged in this part of Central Asia.

• Tarim Basin oasesRelated: The hostile core that the oases ring and that gives them their strategic position.

• Sven HedinRelated: Hedin crossed this desert during expeditions that documented its geography and buried settlements.

• Western ChinaBroader topic: It creates a formidable barrier across the region's largest inland basin.

• Northwestern ChinaBroader topic: Its impassable interior pushed historic routes toward chains of surrounding oases.