Administratively, the lake is in Lop Nur town (Chinese: 罗布泊镇; pinyin: Luóbùpō zhèn), also known as Luozhong (罗中; Luózhōng) of Ruoqiang County, which in its turn is part of the Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture.

Lop Nur, former saline lake in northwestern China that is now a salt-encrusted lake bed. It lies within the Tarim Basin of the eastern Takla Makan Desert, in the Uygur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang, and is one of the most barren areas of China.

May 14, 2018 · Also known as the Lop Depression, the Lop Desert is a desert located in China. The desert ranges all the way from Korla to the Tarim Basin which lies in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. The desert is quite unique in that it is almost perfectly flat.

Lop Nur (Chinese: 罗布泊; pinyin: Luóbùpō) is a largely dried-up salt lake located in the eastern portion of the Tarim Basin in southeastern Xinjiang, China, between the Taklamakan Desert and Kumtag Desert.

Located in China’s resource-rich but moisture-poor Xinjiang autonomous region, Lop Nur is an uninviting location for any kind of agriculture. It sits at the eastern end of the Taklimakan Desert, where marching sand dunes can reach heights of 200 meters (650 feet), and dust storms rage across the landscape.

Oct 19, 2021 · The main attractions here are China's largest desert, the longest inland river, an ethereal blue lake and a magnanimous forest of golden desert poplar. Visitors can also indulge in hunting, sand skating, fishing and singing and dancing around the campfire.

Jul 18, 2022 · Located in the northeast of Ruoqiang County, Lop Nur is about 780 meters (2,560 feet) above sea level and covers an area of about 3,000 square kilometers (1,160 square miles). Once it was the second largest inland lake in China and an important station on the Silk Road.

A former 3,000km² salt lake, which dried up in the late 1960s. Located in the eastern Tarim basin. Luobupo is one of the largest salt playas in the world, with a large-scale sylvite mining operation exploiting parts of the lakebed evaporite zone and subsurface potassium-rich brines.

May 12, 2020 · Lop Nur is a large salt-crust covered playa in the eastern part of the Tarim Basin in northwestern China. Its centre was filled by a lake with a surface area of more than 2000 km 2 in the early 1930s for the last time.

The Lop Lake, reputed as the "lake of death" and located to the northeast of Rouqiang County in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, attracts historians and geographers from home and abroad by its mystery.