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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.
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Namib Desert
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Sonoran Desert
Oceania
Australia
Tanami Desert in Australia
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Sechura Desert in Peru
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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.[citation needed ]
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".[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
^ 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.
^ "Cabo de Gata-Níjar Natural Park" . earthobservatory.nasa.gov . 2022-05-21. Retrieved 2024-02-10 .
^ "Los 5 desiertos más grandes de España" . Fundación Aquae (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-04-24 .
^ Nadal, Paco (19 August 2017). "El desierto de Tabernas, un lugar de otro mundo" . El País (in Spanish). Prisa . Retrieved 13 October 2019 .
^ "Largest desert in the world" . Retrieved 2012-02-02 .
^ "Hot and cold deserts of the world" . Retrieved 2022-03-03 .
^ 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 .
R e t r i e v e d f r o m " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_deserts&oldid=1220584893 "
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