List of deserts in Asia

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This is a list of deserts in Asia .

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Surname image place Type Area (km²)
Aralkum Aral Sea Bed.jpg borders on Kyzylkum and Karakum Desert created by the silting up of the Aral Sea
Badain Jaran Desert Bilutu Peak.JPG Central North China Sand sea 52,000
Gobi Bayanzag.jpg Central Asia , Mongolia and China diverse desert and semi-desert landscapes 2,350,000
Gurbantünggüt

Middle of the Junggar Basin (Djungarian Basin) in northern Xinjiang 48,800
Horqin desert Horqin2013Sep.jpg Eastern Inner Mongolia in the People's Republic of China in the administrative area of ​​the city of Tongliao 52,300
Hulun Buir Desert 新 巴尔 虎 右 旗 天山 - panoramio.jpg North-east China at the border triangle with Mongolia and Russia 29,200
Hunger steppe Betpack-Dala.JPG Center of Kazakhstan Semi-desert 75,000
Hunshandak desert 浑善达克 沙地 - panoramio.jpg South of the Xilin Gol Federation of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in the People's Republic of China
Jaz Murian The basin is in southern Iran 13,000
Judean desert Aerial view of the Judean Desert (near Masada), Israel 03.jpg Israel and the West Bank Semi-desert
Karakum Takirs of Karakum Desert.jpg Central Asia 400,000
Dasht-e Kavir Dasht-e Kavir.jpg In the central highlands of Iran 78,000
Khongoryn Els Khongoryn Els sand dunes.jpg in the Gobi desert in southern Mongolia . 965
Kubuqi desert Kubuqi.tout terrain.en bordure.jpg Ordos Plateau in the north of the autonomous region of Inner Mongolia in the People's Republic of China in the south of the great bend of the Huang He River ( Hètào ) 16,100
Kumtag Desert (Turpan) 中国 新疆 鄯善县 库 木 塔格 沙漠 China Xinjiang, Piqan County Desert Ch - panoramio - 罗布泊 (15) .jpg Turpan District in the Chinese province of Xinjiang is a dune field in the Turpan-Hami Depression between the eastern foothills of the Tian Shan Mountains 2500
Kumtag Desert (Dunhuang) Kumtagh Desert.jpg Xinjiang in the Tarim Basin, southeast of Lop Nur Sand desert 22,800
Kyzylkum Sand-dune.JPG mostly in the interior of the Turan lowlands Gravel and sand desert 200,000
Lop Nor desert Yandang Shan Geopark 7.JPG Northwest of China Inland desert 47,000
Dasht-e Lut Sand castles - Dasht-e Lut desert - Kerman.JPG Southeast Iran 166,000
Mu-Us desert Mu Us Desert, 毛 乌 素 沙漠 - panoramio.jpg China in the center of the Ordos Plateau , which borders Shaanxi Province in the north and the Ordos urban area of Inner Mongolia in the south, part of the Ordos Desert 38,371
Mujunkum

Central Asia in the south of Kazakhstan
Nefud At Nafud.jpg northern part of the Arabian Peninsula , in Saudi Arabia Tropic desert
Negev Negev-2005-1.JPG Israel to the west from the Egyptian-Israeli border and the Gaza Strip , to the east from the Arava Depression and to the north from the Gaza - En Gedi line on the Dead Sea 12,000
Ordos Plateau Kubuqi.dunes et stupa.jpg Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in the north of the People's Republic of China 90,000
Paran

south of Beersheba in the land of Canaan (today Israel )
Pothohar Pharwala Fort.JPG Plateau in the Pakistani province of Punjab 22,254
Qaidam Basin Qaidam-basin-china.jpg North of the Tibetan plateau in the Chinese province of Qinghai 120,000
Ramlat es-Sayhad Yemeni Desert.jpg northern area of ​​central yemen 26,000
Rimal Al Wahiba Wahiba Sands (7) .jpg Janub al-Sharqiyya in eastern Oman 12,500
Rub al-Khali Rub al Khali 002.JPG southern third of the Arabian Peninsula Sand desert 680,000
Saryesik-Atyrau Lake Balkhash satellite.jpg Central Asia in the south of Kazakhstan
Setjet

Ancient Egyptian name for the desert areas that were east of Retjenu on the Sinai Peninsula or behind it
Syrian desert DuraEuropos-WadiSouth.jpg western part of the North Arabian dry steppe, to which almost two thirds of the land area of Syria , eastern Jordan and part of western Iraq and northern Saudi Arabia belong
Taklamakan Taklamakan-d12.jpg in Central Asia in the northwestern Chinese Uighur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang through the western part of the Tarim Basin to Road 218 Sand desert 228.990
Tengger desert Tengger Shamo.JPG southeastern Alxa region of Inner Mongolia in the People's Republic of China 47,350
Thar Thar Khuri.jpg Front India in the area of Rajasthan ( India ) east of the lower Indus Desert and semi-desert area 273,000
Tihama Tihama Coastal Plain, Yemen 1931.jpg Arabian peninsula as a 60 km wide strip along the west and south coast from the Hejaz in Saudi Arabia via Asir to Yemen
Ulanbuh desert 乌兰布 和 大 沙漠 中 的 盐碱 湖 - panoramio.jpg Eastern part of the Alxa Desert in the area of ​​the Alxa and Bayan Nur in Inner Mongolia of the People's Republic of China . 10,300

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