List of deserts

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

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
      Sahara Desert
    • 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
      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
    Gobi in Mongolia
    • Cholistan Desert – a desert in Pakistan
  • 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

  • Bardenas Reales – a semi-arid desert in Navarre, Spain (455 km2; 176 sq mi)[1]
  • Cabo de Gata-Níjar Natural Park – an arid desert in Almeria, Spain (460 km2; 180 sq mi)[2][3]
  • Monegros Desert – a semi-arid desert in Aragón, Spain[4]
  • Tabernas Desert – an arid and semi-arid desert in Almería, Spain (280 km2; 110 sq mi)[5]

Other European nations

  • Oleshky Sands – a sand semi-arid desert in Kherson Oblast, Ukraine

North America

Sonoran Desert
  • Chihuahua Desert – a desert in Mexico and the United States
  • Great Basin Desert
  • Mojave Desert – a desert in the United States
  • Red Desert (Wyoming)
  • Sonoran Desert – a desert in the United States and Mexico
    • Colorado Desert
    • Gran Desierto de Altar
  • Thompson Plateau – a desert in Canada

Oceania

Australia

Tanami Desert in 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

South America

Sechura Desert in Peru
  • Atacama Desert – a desert in Chile and Peru
  • La Guajira Desert – a desert in 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
  • Sechura Desert – a desert located south of the Piura Region of Peru
  • Jalapão – a desert park in Tocantins, Brazil

Polar regions

Antarctic

  • Antarctic Desert – the largest desert in the world[6][7]
    • 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
    • North American Arctic – a large tundra in Northern America
      • Greenland – mostly covered by land ice, like Antarctica
    • Russian Arctic – a large tundra in Russia

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.
  • The Burren – limestone karst in County Clare, Ireland.
  • 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".[8]
  • 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

References

  1. ↑ "Los desiertos de Navarra". Diario Vasco (in Spanish). Vocento. 26 April 2018. Retrieved 13 October 2019.
  2. ↑ Capel Molina, J.J. (1995) Mapa pluviométrico de España Peninsular y Baleares (en el periodo internacional 1961-1990) Investigaciones Geográficas nº 13: 29-466ISSN 0213-4691 pdf Idioma: español. Acceso: 3/7/2009.
  3. ↑ "Cabo de Gata-Níjar Natural Park". earthobservatory.nasa.gov. 2022-05-21. Retrieved 2024-02-10.
  4. ↑ "Los 5 desiertos más grandes de España". Fundación Aquae (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-04-24.
  5. ↑ Nadal, Paco (19 August 2017). "El desierto de Tabernas, un lugar de otro mundo". El País (in Spanish). Prisa. Retrieved 13 October 2019.
  6. ↑ "Largest desert in the world". Retrieved 2012-02-02.
  7. ↑ "Hot and cold deserts of the world". Retrieved 2022-03-03.
  8. ↑ Hunt, Nick (11 May 2021). "'Why go to the Sahara when you can visit Kent?': 'desert' life in Dungeness". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 January 2022.
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