Important deserts of the world

Antarctica is on average the coldest, driest, and windiest of the continents, and it has the highest average elevation.

The Arctic is a polar region located at the northernmost part of Earth.

The Arctic consists of the Arctic Ocean, adjacent seas, and parts of Canada, Denmark (Greenland), Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden and the United States (Alaska).

The Sahara is a desert on the African continent. With an area of 9,200,000 square kilometres (3,600,000 sq. mi).

It is the largest hot desert in the world and the third-largest desert overall.

It is in 18% of Australian mainland.

The Arabian Desert is a vast desert wilderness in Western Asia.

It stretches from Yemen to the Persian Gulf and Oman to Jordan and Iraq.

The Kalahari Desert is a large semi-arid sandy savannah in Southern Africa extending for 900,000 square kilometres. It covers much of Botswana, and parts of Namibia and South Africa.

The Patagonian Desert, also known as the Patagonian Steppe, is the largest desert in Argentina and is the 8th largest desert in the world

The Karakum Desert, also spelled Kara-Kum and Gara-Gum, is a desert in Central Asia.

The Colorado Plateau, also known as the Colorado Plateau Province, is a physiographic and desert region of the Intermontane Plateaus, roughly centered on the Four Corners region of the south-western United States.

The Kyzyl-Kum Desert is the 15th largest desert in the world.

Its name means Red Sand in Turkic languages.

It is located in Central Asia, in the land between the confluent rivers Amu Darya and Syr Darya, a region historically known as Transoxiana.

The Taklamakan Desert is a desert in Southwestern Xinjiang in Northwest China.

It is bounded by the Kunlun Mountains to the south, the Pamir Mountains to the west, the Tian Shan range to the north, and the Gobi Desert to the east.

Puntland, officially the Puntland State of Somalia, is a Federal Member State in north-eastern Somalia.

The Thar Desert, also known as the Great Indian Desert, is a large arid region in the north-western part of the Indian subcontinent that covers an area of 200,000 km2 (77,000 sq. mi).

It forms a natural boundary between India and Pakistan.

It is the world’s 20th-largest desert.

The Thar is the world’s 9th-largest hot subtropical desert.

About 85% of the Thar Desert is in India, and about 15% is in Pakistan.

It is transboundary clay desert shared by Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan.

The Namib is a coastal desert in Southern Africa.

The name Namib is of Khoekhoegowab origin and means “vast place”.

Dasht-e Margo, also called Dasht-e Mārgow or Dasht-e Margoh, is a desert region in the southern provinces of Helmand and Nimruz in Afghanistan.

The desert is adjacent to the Dasht-e Khash and Registan Desert.

The Atacama Desert is a desert plateau in South America covering a 1,600 km (990 mi) strip of land on the Pacific coast, west of the Andes Mountains.

The Atacama Desert is the driest nonpolar desert in the world

The Mojave Desert is a xeric desert in the rain shadow of the Sierra Nevada mountains in the Southwestern United States.

Dasht-e Kavir, also known as Kavir-e Namak and the Great Salt Desert.

It is a large desert lying in the middle of the Iranian Plateau.

The Ferlo Desert, also known as the Ferio Desert, is a desert in northern-central Senegal. It is inhabited by the Serer and the Fulani.

The desrt is included on UNESCO’s world Heritage list on July 17, 2016.

The Lut Desert, widely referred to as Dasht-e Lut, is a large salt desert.

It is the world’s 34^th largest desert.