Tarim Basin

The Tarim Basin is the largest basin in the world, lying between several mountain ranges in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region (also known as East Turkmenistan) in China's far west. Much of the basin in dominated by the Taklamakan Desert. The area is sparsely settled by Uighurs and other central Asian peoples, as well as by Chinese, many of them recent immigrants to the area from other parts of China.