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4th May 2016, 02:48 PM
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| Deserts Of The World
I am doing MA Geography and I am in Final year making final year project report to submit in the university searching for the details about deserts. Will you please provide list of Deserts of the World also tell where they located or area covered by them so I can place details in project?
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4th May 2016, 03:47 PM
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| Re: Deserts Of The World
A desert is a landscape or region that receives very little precipitation - less than 250 mm per year (about ten inches). Approximately 1/3 of Earth's land surface is a desert The Largest Desert The two largest deserts on Earth are in the polar areas. The Antarctic Polar Desert covers the continent of Antarctica and has a size of about 5.5 million square miles. The second-largest desert is the Arctic Polar Desert. It extends over parts of Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia. It has a surface area of about 5.4 million square miles. List of deserts of the world along with their location: Sahara Morocco, Western Sahara, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Chad, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia Arabian Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Oman, Yemen Kalahari Botswana, South Africa, Namibia Australian Desert Gibson Australia (southern portion of the Western Desert) Great Sandy Australia (northern portion of the Western Desert) Great Victoria Australia (southernmost portion of the Western Desert) Simpson and Australia (eastern half of the continent) Sturt Stony Mojave U.S.: Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, Utah, California Sonoran U.S.: Arizona, California; Mexico Chihuahuan Mexico; southwestern U.S. Thar India, Pakistan COOL COASTAL DESERTS Namib Angola, Namibia, South Africa Atacama Chile COLD WINTER DESERTS Great Basin U.S.: Nevada, Oregon, Utah Colorado Plateau U.S.: Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming Patagonian Argentina Kara-Kum Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan Kyzyl-Kum Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan Iranian Iran Taklamakan China Gobi China, Mongolia POLAR Arctic U.S., Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia Antarctic Antarctica |