List of deserts in Asia
This is a list of deserts in Asia .
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Surname | image | place | Type | Area (km²) |
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Aralkum | borders on Kyzylkum and Karakum | Desert created by the silting up of the Aral Sea | ||
Badain Jaran Desert | Central North China | Sand sea | 52,000 | |
Gobi | Central Asia , Mongolia and China | diverse desert and semi-desert landscapes | 2,350,000 | |
Gurbantünggüt |
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Middle of the Junggar Basin (Djungarian Basin) in northern Xinjiang | 48,800 | |
Horqin desert | Eastern Inner Mongolia in the People's Republic of China in the administrative area of the city of Tongliao | 52,300 | ||
Hulun Buir Desert | North-east China at the border triangle with Mongolia and Russia | 29,200 | ||
Hunger steppe | Center of Kazakhstan | Semi-desert | 75,000 | |
Hunshandak desert | 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 | Israel and the West Bank | Semi-desert | ||
Karakum | Central Asia | 400,000 | ||
Dasht-e Kavir | In the central highlands of Iran | 78,000 | ||
Khongoryn Els | in the Gobi desert in southern Mongolia . | 965 | ||
Kubuqi desert | 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) | 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) | Xinjiang in the Tarim Basin, southeast of Lop Nur | Sand desert | 22,800 | |
Kyzylkum | mostly in the interior of the Turan lowlands | Gravel and sand desert | 200,000 | |
Lop Nor desert | Northwest of China | Inland desert | 47,000 | |
Dasht-e Lut | Southeast Iran | 166,000 | ||
Mu-Us desert | 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 |
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Central Asia in the south of Kazakhstan | ||
Nefud | northern part of the Arabian Peninsula , in Saudi Arabia | Tropic desert | ||
Negev | 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 | Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in the north of the People's Republic of China | 90,000 | ||
Paran |
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south of Beersheba in the land of Canaan (today Israel ) | ||
Pothohar | Plateau in the Pakistani province of Punjab | 22,254 | ||
Qaidam Basin | North of the Tibetan plateau in the Chinese province of Qinghai | 120,000 | ||
Ramlat es-Sayhad | northern area of central yemen | 26,000 | ||
Rimal Al Wahiba | Janub al-Sharqiyya in eastern Oman | 12,500 | ||
Rub al-Khali | southern third of the Arabian Peninsula | Sand desert | 680,000 | |
Saryesik-Atyrau | Central Asia in the south of Kazakhstan | |||
Setjet |
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Ancient Egyptian name for the desert areas that were east of Retjenu on the Sinai Peninsula or behind it | ||
Syrian desert | 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 | 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 | southeastern Alxa region of Inner Mongolia in the People's Republic of China | 47,350 | ||
Thar | Front India in the area of Rajasthan ( India ) east of the lower Indus | Desert and semi-desert area | 273,000 | |
Tihama | 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 | 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 |