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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Afro-Eurasia[edit]
Africa[edit]
- 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
Eurasia[edit]
Asia[edit]
- Arabian Desert – desert complex on the Arabian Peninsula comprising:
- 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
- Cholistan – a desert in Pakistan
- Dasht-i-Margo SW Afghanistan
- Dasht-e Kavir – a desert in central Iran
- Dasht-e Lut – a large salt desert in southeastern Iran
- Gobi – a desert in Mongolia and China
- Indus Valley Desert – a desert located in Pakistan
- Judaean Desert – a desert in eastern Israel and the West Bank
- Kara Kum – a large Central Asian desert
- Kharan desert – a desert located in Pakistan
- Kyzyl Kum – a desert in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan
- Lop Desert – a desert in China
- Ordos – a desert in northern China
- Taklamakan – a desert located in China
- Thal Desert – a desert in Pakistan
- Thar Desert – a desert in India and Pakistan
- Maranjab Desert – a desert in central Iran
- Negev – a desert located in southern Israel
Europe[edit]
- 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 (15 km in diameter)
- Oltenian Sahara – a desert spanning approximately 80,000 hectares or 800 km² in the Romanian historical province of Oltenia[1]
- Piscinas - dunes desert in the Province of Medio Campidano in the Italian region Sardinia, Italy
- 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[edit]
North America[edit]
Main article: List of North American deserts
- Carcross Desert
- 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
- Mojave Desert a desert in United States
- Pumice Desert, the remains of an ash flow from the big eruption of Mount Mazama[2]
- Sonoran Desert a desert in United States and Mexico
South America[edit]
- 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
Oceania[edit]
Australia[edit]
See also: Deserts of 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- Antarctica Desert – the largest desert in the world[3]
- 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 – a large tundra
- North American Arctic – a large tundra in North America
- Russian Arctic – a large tundra in Russia
References[edit]
- ^ Oltenian Sahara
- ^ Pumice Desert
- ^ "Largest desert in the world". Retrieved 2012-02-02.
