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The Sahara is the largest hot desert in the world

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

Africa

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Namib Desert
  • 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
    • 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
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      Aerial view of Negev
    • Judaean Desert – a desert in eastern Israel and the West Bank
    • Negev – a desert located in southern Israel
  • Bromo Sand Sea – a volcanic desert in Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park, East Java, Indonesia
  • 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 and Pakistan
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    Gobi in Mongolia
  • Dasht-e-Margo – a desert in southwestern Afghanistan
  • Kyzyl Kum – a desert in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan
  • Kara Kum – a large desert in Central Asia
  • Lop Desert – a desert in China
  • Ordos – a desert in northern China
    • Kubuqi Desert – a desert in northern China
    • Mu Us Desert – a desert in northern China
  • Gobi – a desert in Mongolia and China
    • Badain Jaran Desert – a desert in China
    • Hami Desert – a desert in China
    • Tengger Desert – a desert in China
  • Taklamakan – a desert located in China
  • Gurbantünggüt Desert – a desert located in northwestern China
  • Kumtag Desert – a desert in northwestern China
  • Karapinar Desert – a desert in Southern Central Anatolia

Europe

Spain

Other European nations

North America

Oceania

Australia

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Tanami Desert in Australia

New Zealand

South America

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Polar regions

Antarctic

  • Antarctic Desert – the largest desert in the world
    • McMurdo Dry Valleys – a series of extremely dry, snow-free valleys in Victoria Land
    • Meyer Desert – a small desert close to the South Pole

Arctic

  • Arctic Desert – the second largest "desert" in the world, though it consists of frozen ocean, land ice, and tundra, so (like the rest of this section) not a desert climate in any conventional sense

Pseudo-deserts

Some geographical features are referred to as "deserts", and this word may even feature in their names, despite not meeting any meteorological definitions for a desert.

  • Accona Desert – area of Siena, Italy.
  • Barreiro da Faneca – clayey expanse in the Azores.
  • Błędowska Desert – area of sands in Poland.
  • Carcross Desert – sand-dune system in Yukon, Canada.
  • Chara Sands – region of Siberia, Russia.
  • Deliblatska Peščara – sand expanse in Vojvodina, Serbia.
  • Desert of Maine – 40-acre expanse of glacial sand-dunes in Maine, United States.
  • Desert of Wales – a large, upland area of Wales.
  • Dunas dos Ingleses – sand-dune system in Brazil.
  • Dungeness – shingle expanse in South East England, United Kingdom, misleadingly nicknamed "Britain's only desert".
  • Highlands of Iceland – the interior plateau of Iceland;
  • Joaquina Beach – beach in Brazil.
  • Kaʻū Desert – an area of desertification in Hawaii, due to the acid rainfall caused by the nearby Kīlauea volcano.
  • Larzac – limestone karst plateau in the south of the Massif Central, France.
  • Lençóis Maranhenses National Park
  • Lieberose Desert - a desert on a former military training ground in southern Brandenburg, Germany
  • Melnik Desert Canyon – a canyon in Bulgaria.
  • Oltenian Sahara – area of desertification in Oltenia, Romania.
  • The Stone Desert – rock formation in Bulgaria.
  • Red Desert – desert-like region in South Africa.
  • Sand dunes of Lemnos – sand-dune expanse on Lemnos, Greece.
  • Sands of Đurđevac – sand-dune system in Croatia.
  • Sleeping Bear Dunes – lakeshore in Michigan, United States.
  • Słowiński National Park – sand-dune expanse in Poland.
  • Tottori Sand Dunes – sand-dune system in Tottori Prefecture, Japan.
  • Chad Basin National Park – desert park in northern Nigeria.

See also

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