Kara Kum

or Qa·ra Qum

[ kar-uh koom, koom, kahr-uh ]

noun

1. a desert S of the Aral Sea, largely in Turkmenistan. About 110,000 sq. mi. (284,900 sq. km).

Kara Kum

/ kəra ˈkum /

noun

1. a desert in Turkmenistan, covering most of the country: extensive areas now irrigated. Area: about 300 000 sq km (120 000 sq miles)

Example Sentences

Occupying 15% of the earth's land surface, the Soviet Union stretches from a cluster of virtual colonies in Eastern Europe to the Bering Strait off the top of Alaska, across two continents and eleven time zones; more than 3,000 miles— roughly the distance from New York to San Francisco—separate the ice fields of the Arctic Ocean from the sun-parched Kara Kum Desert.

From Time Magazine Archive

But in daylight, the tinkling of silver bells and the aromatic incense of another age vanished like a mirage in the Kara Kum Desert.

From Time Magazine Archive