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Do you like the endless desert of "the desert is lonely and straight, and the sun sets on the long river"? I believe that for many friends, it will be more yearning, although the desert is very dangerous, but it also has its beautiful side. If you were asked, which is the largest desert in the world? It is estimated that the first reaction is the Sahara Desert, in fact, it can only rank third in terms of area, so which is the largest?
12. Karakum Desert
Area: 350,000 square kilometers
Countries: Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan
Continent: Asia
This Central Asian desert covers most of Turkmenistan. This desert is also home to the natural wonder of the Darvaza Crater. With the exception of lizards, camels and other hardy wildlife, it is sparsely populated and has little rainfall.
Few tourists enter here, which makes exploring the ruins an extraordinary experience. An incredible spectacle in the heart of the desert, also known as the Gates of Hell, is the Dalvazza Crater in the heart of the desert, a large gas crater that was deliberately ignited in the 70s to prevent methane from escaping and has been burning ever since.
11. Great Basin Desert
Area: 492,000 square kilometers
Country: United States
Continent: North America
The Great Basin Desert is part of the plain between the Wasatch Mountains and the Sierra Nevada. The desert spans most of Nevada, Utah, Idaho and California and covers an area of 492,098 square kilometers. This desert contains a large number of fascinating sub-regions, characterized by cold winters and hot summers.
It is subdivided into smaller areas, such as the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, or the Carson Tank and Black Rock Desert in Nevada. Wildfires caused by lightning are common in this desert. You'll also find many endangered species, such as the fewest tern, purple vetch, desert dars, White River spiny dass, and Utah prairie marmots.
10. The Syrian desert
Area: 500,000 square kilometers
Countries: Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Iraq
Continent: Asia
With an area of 500,000 square kilometers and covering parts of Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Iraq, the Syrian desert is the eighth largest desert in the world. Much of the Syrian desert is still inhabited by nomadic Bedouins, who use it as pasture for various livestock.
It is bounded by the Euphrates River, the Orontes Valley, the volcanic Harat Shamma, the Euphrates River and the Arabian Desert. Originally inhabited by Bedouin tribes, the city of Palmyra has been an important trading center since Roman times. It is also known as Badia, the Syrian steppe or the Jordanian steppe.
9. Chihuahua Desert
Area: 453,000 square kilometers
Country: Mexico and United States
Continent: North America
The Chihuahua Desert covers an area of 501,896 square kilometers in the United States and northern Mexico. Most of the desert is located in West Texas and Chihuahua, with small portions in Arizona, Coahuila, Durango, Zacatecas, and Nuevo León. The nearby Sierra Madre blocks most of the rainfall, resulting in a dry climate in this desert.
Many mountains in the desert have formed "islands in the sky" with forested woodlands. There are also many cities in the desert - Albuquerque, Saltillo, Fort Stockton, Fort Sumner, Roswell, Torreón, etc. According to WWF, the Chihuahua Desert is probably the most biodiverse desert in the world due to its wide variety of species.
8. Patagonia Desert
Area: 67.3 square kilometers
Countries: Argentina and Chile
Continent: South America
Patagonia is surrounded by the Andes Mountains and the Atlantic Ocean, dotted with bushes. Although it doesn't snow in Patagonia, it does frost in winter. Here you will find animals such as the Little American iguana, the desert iguana, the gray fox, the pygmy armadillo and Maras. The cities here are located on the Atlantic coast.
The Patagonian Desert is a cold desert in Argentina. Its center contains the world's largest petrified forest, which was formed by a series of volcanic eruptions in the Andes. Much of Patagonia is covered by grasslands and has been inhabited by nomads for centuries. There is much debate about whether this land should have been used for pasture and other animal grazing activities in modern times.
7. Kalahari Desert
Area: 900,000 square kilometers
Countries: Botswana, Namibia and South Africa
Continent: Africa
The Kalahari Desert in southern Africa is a sandy semi-arid desert covering an area of 900,000 square kilometers. It includes most of Botswana, as well as parts of Namibia and South Africa. The word Kalahari means "land without water" or "extreme thirst." Endemic species include lions, cheetahs, hyenas, leopards, secretary birds, eagles, owls, falcons, wildebeest, springboks, etc.
The Central Kalahari Game Reserve, Kalahari Transboundary Park and Huz Game Reserve, home to so many different species, are well worth a visit. The Rahari Desert is located in south-central Africa and should not be confused with other nearby deserts, such as the Angolan Desert. Parts of the Kalahari Desert are wet enough to feed a large number of wildlife.
6. Gobi Desert
Area: 1.295 million square kilometers
Countries: China and Mongolia
Continent: Asia
This vast desert in China and Mongolia is bounded by the steppes and the Altai Mountains in the north and the Hexi Corridor and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in the south. If the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau had not blocked precipitation, the Gobi region would not have been classified as a desert. It is home to the famous Silk Road city of Karakorum, which is also recorded in the Travels of Marco Polo.
As the sixth largest desert in the world, the Gobi Desert has a lot to see from the sand sung by Hongolin Els to the burning cliffs and traditional yurt camps. The formation process of the Gobi is mainly based on erosion, mainly distributed in the central and western parts of the Inner Mongolia Plateau and its marginal mountains, which is an area that has been continuously towering into land since the Cretaceous period, and then has not been invaded or violently crustal movement and has been in the erosion for a long time.
5. Arabian Desert
Area: 2.323 million square kilometers
Countries: Mainly within Saudi Arabia, but also Iraq, Jordan, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Oman and Yemen.
Continent: Asia
The Arabian Desert is one of the most extreme places in the world, and temperatures can switch between extreme heat and icy cold within hours. The Arabian Desert covers 2,330,000 square kilometers and covers most of the Arabian Peninsula, stretching from the Persian Gulf to Yemen. Animals in the area include spiny-tailed lizards and sand cats.
At its center is Rub al-Khali, an ultra-arid region of about 650,000 square kilometers with less than 35 millimeters of rainfall a year that is part of Oman and Saudi Arabia. It is home to arachnids and oil fields, and books on open areas have been written. Although the Arabian Desert is difficult to inhabit, it does not prevent the construction of cities here. Did you know that Riyadh is located in the heart of this desert?
4. Australian desert
Area: 2.7 million square kilometers
Country: Australia
Continent: Oceania
Australia's desert covers about 2,700,000 square kilometers, and the Great Australian Desert has relatively high rainfall, with an average rainfall of about 250 mm, but can become correspondingly dry due to high evaporation. The inland and southern deserts lack significant summer rainfall. About 40% of Australia is covered by sand dunes. Australia is the driest inhabited continent.
In addition to being largely uninhabited, the Great Australian Desert is diverse, including semi-desert meadows or mountain landscapes, xerophytic shrubs, salt pans, lime (stony) deserts, red sand dunes, sandstone mesas, rocky plains, open tree savannas and shrubland, several rivers and salt lakes, which are mostly seasonally arid. The 2.7 million square kilometers of desert is one of the least transformed in the world. The Australian desert is home to the largest number of wild camels in the world.
3. Sahara Desert
Area: 9.2 million square kilometers
Countries: Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Western Sahara, Sudan and Tunisia.
Continent: Africa
Often considered the largest desert in the world, the Sahara Desert is actually the third largest desert. The Sahara Desert covers an area of 9,200,000 square kilometers with an average precipitation of less than 250 mm. This land of sand dunes and rocky plateaus covers almost 31% of the African continent. But it is also home to the beautiful Air Mountains, the Hogar Mountains, the Sahara Atlas, the Red Sea Mountains, and more.
Due to its diversity, the Sahara Desert is home to a variety of wildlife – from camels and foxes to antelopes and cheetahs. For thousands of years, due to the change in wind direction of the North African typhoon, it has shifted back and forth between fertile savannas and dry deserts. Interesting animals in the Sahara include death hunter scorpions, red-necked ostriches, and several different monitor lizards.
2. Arctic desert
Area: 13.9 million square kilometers
Countries: Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia and United States.
Continent: It is part of three continents: North America, Europe, Asia
The Arctic desert is a polar desert with long winters and short summers. It covers an area of 13.9 million square kilometers and receives average precipitation between 150-250 mm or less than 8 inches. Most regions have temperatures below 0°C, and although researchers disagree on which areas are deserts, the generally accepted areas are the Arctic, the Arctic Basin and the Canadian Arctic Islands.
The Arctic desert spans three continents. It stretches from northern Canada and Norway to the depths of Russia's frozen heath. The Russian desert is considered part of this desert. The region is classified as a huge desert, and even the warmest months of the year usually barely melt the ice. Animals featured in the Arctic desert are ivory gulls, polar bears and arctic walruses.
1. Antarctic desert
Area: 14.2 million square kilometers
Countries: Antarctica has no state, and seven countries have sovereignty over parts of it: New Zealand, Australia, France, Norway, the United Kingdom, Chile and Argentina.
Continent: Antarctica
An endless frozen blanket, the largest desert on the planet, covering 14,200,000 square kilometers. With only 20 cm of rainfall per year, the average temperature in the coldest part of the year was −63°C, but it reached a minimum of -94.7C in August 2010.
Antarctica is home to more than 90% of the world's ice, and there's actually plenty to do in Antarctica – from visiting popular outposts to catching a glimpse of penguins or wandering albatrosses and other unique wildlife. It is windier, colder, and drier than any other continent on Earth. #desert##风景 ##