Lop Nor

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Lop Nor Xinjiang, China: see Lop Nur .

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Map Records Shrinkage of Lake Lop Nur
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency January 24, 2001 700+ words ...of the ear-shaped map represents the size of Lake Lop Nur at its largest, about 5,350 square kilometers...The earlobe is the place where water flowed into Lake Lop Nur, Xia said. Lop Nor was created by the flooding of a river, and the volume...
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