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For today’s geo quiz we were looking for China’s largest desert. It’s located in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region of China. The answer is the Taklamakan desert where an endurance race is about to begin. Eric Lahaie is one of the runners and spoke to anchor Jeb Sharp.

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