Top 20 Largest Deserts in World: Land Desert covers one-fifth to one-third of the land surface of the Earth, deserts are landscapes or regions that receive little precipitation, with a relatively high level of evaporation, creating a deficit. Areas designated deserts have an average annual precipitation of less than 16 inches.
There are several types of deserts on Earth, defined based on the temperature of the region. There are both hot and cold deserts, classified into semiarid, arid, and extremely arid or rainless deserts based on the total annual precipitation.
Rank
|
Name
|
Type
|
Location
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1
|
Antarctic Desert
|
Polar
|
Antarctica
|
2
|
Arctic
|
Polar
|
Alaska (United States), Canada, Finland,
Greenland (Denmark), Iceland, Norway, Russia and Sweden
|
3
|
Sahara
|
Subtropical
|
Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Eritrea,
Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Sudan, Tunisia and Western Sahara
|
4
|
Arabian Desert
|
Subtropical
|
Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Iraq, Kuwait,
Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Oman and Yemen
|
5
|
Gobi Desert
|
Cold Winter
|
Mongolia and China
|
6
|
Kalahari Desert
|
Subtropical
|
Angola, Botswana, Namibia and South
Africa
|
7
|
Patagonian Desert
|
Cold Winter
|
Argentina and Chile
|
8
|
Great Victoria Desert
|
Subtropical
|
Australia
|
9
|
Syrian Desert
|
Subtropical
|
Syria, Jordan and Iraq
|
10
|
Great Basin Desert
|
Cold Winter
|
United States
|
11
|
Chihuahuan Desert
|
Subtropical
|
Mexico and United States
|
12
|
Great Sandy Desert
|
Subtropical
|
Australia
|
13
|
Karakum Desert
|
Cold Winter
|
Turkmenistan
|
14
|
Colorado Plateau
|
Cold Winter
|
United States
|
15
|
Sonoran Desert
|
Subtropical
|
Mexico and United States
|
16
|
Kyzyl Kum
|
Cold Winter
|
Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and
Uzbekistan
|
17
|
Taklamakan Desert
|
Cold Winter
|
China
|
18
|
Thar Desert
|
Subtropical
|
India and Pakistan
|
19
|
Gibson Desert
|
Subtropical
|
Australia
|
20
|
Simpson Desert
|
Subtropical
|
Australia
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