A remote, arid, and rugged area of the Xinjiang Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China. The nearest population center to this sparsely populated land is the city of Urumqi. It is in this desert that the remotest point of land from any sea is located. The precise point is at 46 degrees 16.8 minutes North Latitude, 86 degrees 40.2 minutes East longitude. It was pin-pointed and reached on 27 June 1986 by British explorers Nicholas Crane and Dr Richard Crane. This position is over 1,600 miles from the nearest coastline.