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Largest Deserts
LARGEST DESERTS
Compiled by Chilman Sahni
Deserts cover about a quarter of the world’s land area. They range from extremely arid and barren sandy deserts (about 4% of the total land surface of the globe), through arid (15%) to semi-arid. Most deserts have features of all these, with one zone merging into the next, so the start and finish of any desert is not exact. Many of the world’s largest deserts are broken down by geographers into smaller desert regions- the Australian Desert includes the Gibson, Great Sandy, Great Victoria and Simpson, for example.
DESERT LOCATION APPROX AREA (sq km)
- Sahara Northern Africa 9,100,000
- Australian Australia* 3,400,000
- Arabian Peninsula Southwest Asia# 2,600,000
- Turkestan Central Asia^ 1,900,000
- Gobi Central Asia 1,300,000
- North American Desert US/Mexico∫ 1,300,000
*Includes Gibson, Great Sandy, Great Victoria and Simpson. #
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