List of deserts by area
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This is a list of deserts in the world by area. It includes all deserts with an area greater than 52,000 square kilometres (20,100 sq mi).
Some of Earth's biggest deserts
| Rank | Name | Type | Image | Area (km²) |
Area (sq mi) |
Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Antarctica | Cold Winter | 14,000,000 | 5,400,000 | Antarctica | |
| 2 | Sahara | Subtropical | 9,000,000+ | 3,300,000+ | North Africa (Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Eritrea, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Sudan, Tunisia and Western Sahara) | |
| 3 | Arabian Desert | Subtropical | 2,330,000[1] | 900,000 | Western Asia (Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Yemen) | |
| 4 | Gobi Desert | cold winter | 1,000,000 | 500,000 | Central Asia (China and Mongolia) | |
| 5 | Kalahari Desert | Subtropical | 900,000[2] | 360,000 | Southern Africa (Angola, Botswana, Namibia and South Africa) | |
| 6 | Great Victoria Desert | Subtropical | 647,000[3] | 220,000 | Australia | |
| 7 | Patagonian Desert | Cold Winter | 620,000 | 200,000 | South America (Argentina and Chile) | |
| 8 | Syrian Desert | Subtropical | 520,000[3] | 200,000 | Western Asia (Iraq, Jordan, Syria, and Turkey) | |
| 9 | Great Basin Desert | Cold Winter | 492,000[3] | 190,000 | United States | |
| 10 | Chihuahuan Desert | Subtropical | 450,000[3] | 175,000 | North America (Mexico and United States) | |
| 11 | Great Sandy Desert | Subtropical | 400,000[3] | 150,000 | Australia | |
| 12 | Karakum Desert | Cold Winter | 350,000[3] | 135,000 | Turkmenistan | |
| 13 | Colorado Plateau | Cold Winter | 337,000[3] | 130,000 | United States | |
| 14 | Sonoran Desert | Subtropical | 310,000[3] | 120,000 | North America (Mexico and United States) | |
| 15 | Kyzyl Kum | Cold Winter | 300,000[3] | 115,000 | Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan) | |
| 16 | Taklamakan Desert | Cold Winter | 270,000 | 105,000 | China | |
| 17 | Thar Desert | Subtropical | 200,000[4] | 77,000 | South Asia (India and Pakistan) | |
| 18 | Gibson Desert | Subtropical | 156,000[5] | 60,000 | Australia | |
| 19 | Dashti Margo | Subtropical | 150,000 | 58,000 | Afghanistan | |
| 20 | Registan Desert | Subtropical | 146,000 | 56,400 | Afghanistan | |
| 21 | Simpson Desert | Subtropical | 145,000[3] | 56,000 | Australia | |
| 22 | Atacama Desert | Cool Coastal | 140,000[3] | 54,000 | South America (Chile and Peru) | |
| 23 | Mojave Desert | Subtropical | 124,000[6][7] | 48,000 | United States | |
| 24 | Namib Desert | Cool Coastal | 81,000[3] | 31,000 | Southern Africa (Angola and Namibia) | |
| 25 | Dasht-e Kavir | Subtropical | 77,000[8] | 30,000 | Iran | |
| 26 | Dasht-e Lut | Subtropical | 52,000[8] | 20,000 | Iran |
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "Arabian Desert". Retrieved 2007-12-28.
- ^ Bass, Karen (2009-02-01). "Nature's Great Events:The Okavango Delta, Kalahari Desert" (PDF). press.uchicago.edu. University of Chicago Press. Retrieved 2012-04-26.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "Largest Desert in the World". Retrieved 2011-12-27.
- ^ Thar Desert - Britannica Online Encyclopedia
- ^ "Interesting facts about Western Australia". landgate.wa.gov.au. Western Australian Land Information Authority. Retrieved 2012-04-26.
- ^ "Mapping Perennial Vegetation Cover in the Mojave Desert" (PDF). pubs.usgs.gov. USGS Western Geographic Science Center. 2011-06-01. Retrieved 2012-04-08.
- ^ "Recoverability and Vulnerability of Desert Ecosystems". http://mojave.usgs.gov/. USGS. 2006-03-03. Retrieved 2012-04-14.
- ^ a b Wright, John W., ed. (2006). The New York Times Almanac (2007 ed.). New York, New York: Penguin Books. p. 456. ISBN 0-14-303820-6. Cite error: Invalid
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