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The Mojave Desert is the hottest desert in North America, located primarily in southeastern California and Southern Nevada. Its total area is 22,000 sq mi (57,000 km 2). The largest cold desert is the Great Basin Desert, which encompasses much of the northern Basin and Range Province, north of the Mojave Desert.
The Great Basin Desert is part of the Great Basin between the Sierra Nevada and the Wasatch Range. The desert is a geographical region that largely overlaps the Great Basin shrub steppe defined by the World Wildlife Fund, and the Central Basin and Range ecoregion defined by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and United States Geological ...
River. Orange River. The Kalahari Desert is a large semi-arid sandy savanna in Southern Africa extending for 900,000 square kilometres (350,000 sq mi), covering much of Botswana, as well as parts of Namibia and South Africa . It is not to be confused with the Angolan, Namibian, and South African Namib coastal desert, whose name is of ...
Deserts of Australia. Coordinates: 24.57°S 137.42°E. Great Australian Desert. The Great Australian desert is the 4th largest desert by area after the Antarctic, the Arctic and the Sahara. Typical landscape ( Simpson Desert) Length. 4,710 km (2,930 mi) Width. 1,890 km (1,170 mi)
Nefud Desert – a desert in northern part of the Arabian Peninsula. Ramlat al-Sab`atayn – a desert in north-central Yemen. Wahiba Sands – a desert covering great parts of Oman. Aerial view of Negev. Judaean Desert – a desert in eastern Israel and the West Bank. Negev – a desert located in southern Israel.
Black Rock Desert (Nevada) Carson Sink – Carson River (Nevada) Humboldt Sink – Humboldt River (Nevada) Quinn River (Nevada) Bonneville Basin (Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming), a system of endorheic basins connected to pluvial Lake Bonneville. Great Salt Lake (remnant of Lake Bonneville) in Utah. Sevier Lake (Utah) Utah Lake – Jordan River.
South Africa. The Karoo ( / kəˈruə / kə-ROO-ə; from the Afrikaans borrowing of the South Khoekhoe !Orakobab or Khoemana word ǃ’Aukarob "Hard veld " [2] [3]) is a semi- desert natural region of South Africa. No exact definition of what constitutes the Karoo is available, so its extent is also not precisely defined.
The Sahara (/ s ə ˈ h ɑːr ə /, / s ə ˈ h ær ə /) is a desert spanning across North Africa.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, smaller only than the deserts of Antarctica and the northern Arctic.