Definition of "Taklimakan"

There are three ways to get to this city, sprouting on the edge of one of the world's largest deserts, the Taklimakan, and they all bespeak the remarkable boom under way.

2005 December 20, Howard W. French, “A Remote Boomtown Where Mainly Newcomers Benefit”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 2015-05-29, WORLD‎