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List of deserts

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This is a list of deserts sorted by the region of the world in which the desert is located.

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Africa

  • Kalahari Desert – a desert covering much of  Botswana and parts of  Namibia and  South Africa
  • Karoo Desert - a desert covering parts of southern  South Africa
  • Namib Desert – a desert in present-day  Namibia
  • Moçâmedes Desert - a desert located in southwest  Angola near the border with  Namibia just at north of the Namib Desert
  • Danakil Desert – a desert lying in the Afar Triangle and covering northeastern Ethiopia, southern Eritrea, southern Djibouti and northwesternmost Somalia
  • Eritrean Coastal Desert - a desert lying along the southern part of the coast of Eritrea and the coast of Djibouti
  • Guban Desert - a desert lying along the coast of northwestern Somalia
  • Grand Bara Desert - a desert covering parts of south Djibouti
  • Ogaden Desert - a desert region in southeastern Ethiopia and in northern and central Somalia
  • Chalbi Desert – a desert in northern Kenya along the border with Ethiopia
  • Nyiri Desert - a desert located in southern Kenya along the border with Tanzania
  • Lompoul Desert - a desert lying in northwestern Senegal between Dakar and Saint-Louis
  • Sahara Desert – Africa's largest desert and the world's largest hot desert which covers much of North Africa comprising:
  • Ténéré – a desert covering northeastern Niger and western Chad
  • Tanezrouft – a desert covering northern Mali, northwestern Niger as well as central and southern Algeria, at the west of the Hoggar Mountains
  • El Djouf - a desert which covers northeastern Mauritania and parts of northwestern Mali
  • Djurab Desert - a desert covering northern central Chad
  • Tin-Toumma Desert - a desert covering southeastern Niger, at the south of the Ténéré
  • Libyan Desert (also called Western Desert) – a desert covering eastern Libya, western Egypt and northwestern Sudan at the west of the Nile River
  • White Desert – a desert covering a part of western Egypt and located in Farafra, Egypt
  • Eastern Desert – a desert covering eastern Egypt and northeastern Sudan between the Nile River and the Red Sea
  • Nubian Desert – a desert covering northeastern Sudan between the Nile River and the Red Sea
  • Bayuda Desert – a desert covering eastern Sudan located just at the southwest of the Nubian Desert
  • Sinai Desert – a desert located on the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt
  • Blue Desert – a desert covering a part of the Sinai Desert near the Red Sea and located around Dahab, Egypt
  • Atlantic Coastal Desert – a desert lying along the western coast of the Sahara Desert and occupies a narrow strip in Western Sahara and Mauritania

    • Asia

  • Arabian Desert – desert complex on the Arabian Peninsula comprising:
  • Al Khatim Desert - a desert near Abu Dhabi
  • Al-Dahna Desert - a desert being the main central division of the Arabian Desert and covering parts of Saudi Arabia
  • Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)- the world's largest sand desert and covering much of Saudi Arabia, Oman, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen
  • Nefud Desert - a desert in northern part of the Arabian Peninsula
  • Ramlat al-Sab`atayn - a desert in north-central Yemen
  • Wahiba Sands - a desert covering great parts of Oman
  • Judaean Desert – a desert in eastern Israel and the West Bank
  • Negev – a desert located in southern Israel
  • Dasht-e Kavir – a desert in central Iran
  • Dasht-e Lut – a large salt desert in southeastern Iran
  • Polond Desert – a desert in eastern Iran
  • Maranjab Desert – a desert in central Iran
  • Cholistan – a desert in Pakistan
  • Indus Valley Desert – a desert located in Pakistan
  • Kharan desert – a desert located in Pakistan
  • Thal Desert – a desert in Pakistan
  • Thar Desert – a desert in India and Pakistan
  • Dasht-e-Margo – a desert in southwestern Afghanistan
  • Kyzyl Kum – a desert in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan
  • Kara Kum – a large Central Asian desert
  • Lop Desert – a desert in China
  • Ordos – a desert in northern China
  • Gobi – a desert in Mongolia and China
  • Taklamakan – a desert located in China

    • Europe

  • Accona Desert – a semi-desert in central Italy
  • Bardenas Reales – a semi-desert in Navarre, Spain (455 km²)
  • Błędowska Desert – a desert located in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland (32 km²)
  • Deliblatska Peščara – a desert located in Vojvodina, Serbia (300 km²)
  • Highlands of Iceland – the interior plateau of Iceland; not a desert by climate, but effectively one because precipitation penetrates the volcanic soil so quickly that the land is infertile
  • Ilhas Selvagens and Ilhas Desertas - two small archipelagos located between the island of Madeira, Portugal and the Canary Islands, Spain
  • Larzac - a semi-desert in the Massif Central in France
  • Melnik Desert Canyon- A sandy canyon surrounded town in the southwestern tip of Bulgaria: where sand dunes, sandstone formations, sand pyramids and an overall canyon has formed while pertaining to other desert-like climate.
  • Monegros Desert – a semi-desert in Aragón, Spain
  • Oleshky Sands – a desert located in Ukraine near Askania-Nova biosphere reserve (~185 km², 15 km in diameter)
  • Oltenian Sahara – a desert spanning approximately 80,000 hectares or 800 km² in the Romanian historical province of Oltenia
  • Santorini and Anafi, both islands located in the Aegean Sea, possess the only hot desert climates (BWh) in Europe, according to the Köppen climate classification.
  • The Stone Desert - A rather medium-sized European desert phenomenon with dunes, sandstone formations, a desert type vegetation habitat and a vast desert-like climate found on the western Varna Province border of North East Bulgaria.
  • Ryn Desert - a desert in western Kazakhstan and southeastern Russia
  • Tabernas Desert – a desert in Almería, Spain (280 km²)

    • North America

  • Central Valley of California (which is divided into the Sacramento Valley in the north, and the San Joaquin Valley in the south) – this area has largely been transformed, due to irrigation canals, to an agricultural area. It is technically a semi-arid climate
  • Chihuahua Desert a desert in  Mexico and  United States
  • Great Basin Desert
  • Black Rock Desert
  • Death Valley
  • Mojave Desert a desert in  United States
  • Sonoran Desert a desert in  United States and  Mexico
  • Colorado Desert
  • Thompson Plateau a desert in  Canada

    • South America

  • Atacama Desert – a desert in  Chile and  Peru
  • La Guajira Desert – a desert in northern  Colombia and  Venezuela
  • Monte Desert – in  Argentina, a smaller desert above the Patagonian Desert
  • Patagonian Desert – the largest desert in the Americas, located in  Argentina and  Chile
  • Sechura Desert – a desert located south of the Piura Region of  Peru
  • Jalapão A desert park in Tocantins, Brazil There are desert in some locals

    • Australia

  • Central Desert – a central Australian desert
  • Gibson Desert – a central Australian desert
  • Great Sandy Desert – a northwestern Australian desert
  • Great Victoria Desert – the biggest desert in Australia
  • Little Sandy Desert – a western Australian desert
  • Simpson Desert – a central Australian desert
  • Strzelecki Desert – a south-central Australian desert
  • Tanami Desert – a northern Australian desert

    • Zealandia

  • Rangipo Desert – a barren desert-like plateau (with 1.5-2.5 m/yr rainfall) on the North Island Volcanic Plateau in New Zealand

    • Polar regions

  • Antarctica Desert – the largest desert in the world
  • Arctic Desert – the second largest "desert" in the world, though it is frozen ocean, so (like the rest of this section) not a desert climate in any conventional sense
  • Greenland – mostly covered by ice, like Antarctica
  • North American Arctic – a large tundra in North America
  • Russian Arctic – a large tundra in Russia

    • References

    List of deserts Wikipedia
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