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List of deserts

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Afro-Eurasia
Africa Eurasia Asia Europe
Americas
North America South America
Oceania
Australia Zealandia
Polar Regions
See also
Pseudo-deserts
References

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

Afro-Eurasia

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

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
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

Eurasia

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
Katpana Desert – a cold desert in Pakistan
Indus Valley Desert – a desert located in Pakistan
Kharan desert – a desert located in Pakistan
Syrian desert – a desert located in Syria, Jordan and Iraq
Thal Desert – a desert in Pakistan
Thar Desert – a desert in India
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 the 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^[1]
Sand dunes of Lemnos - A small desert with an area of just 70 acres in the Lemnos island in Greece.
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)

Americas

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 the United States
Great Basin Desert
- Black Rock Desert
- Death Valley
Mojave Desert a desert in the United States
Red Desert (Wyoming)
Sonoran Desert a desert in the 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

Oceania

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^[2]
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
- North American Arctic – a large tundra in North America
- Greenland – mostly covered by ice, like Antarctica
- Russian Arctic – a large tundra in Russia

References

1. ^Oltenian Sahara
2. ^{{cite web|url=http://geology.com/records/largest-desert.shtml|title=Largest desert in the world|accessdate=2012-02-02}}

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