"Kumtag Desert" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2007 July 10, “China pledges safe fare for Games”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2020-05-15, Healthcare & Pharma:",
          "text": "People stand in shape as Olympic Rings to celebrate the upcoming 2008 Beijing Olympic Games at Kumtag desert region in Shanshan County, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region June 23, 2007.",
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          "ref": "2020 May 11, Anna Sherman, “A Poetic Journey Through Western China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-05-11:",
          "text": "“DO YOU BELIEVE the voices are real?”\nMy Chinese guide and I were standing in the Yardang National Geopark, on the border between Gansu Province and the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region in China’s extreme northwest. The nearest town was Dunhuang, 110 miles to the southeast. Enormous yardangs — curving sandstone and mudstone strata carved by winds — towered over us. Others floated on the far horizon.\n“You mean the singing sands?” I asked. On my map, an asterisk marked this strange feature of the Kumtag Desert, three miles from Dunhuang. If you throw yourself down the dunes in that place, the air resonates — sometimes like the lowest note on a cello; sometimes like a crack of thunder.",
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