TOP 10 Largest deserts in the world

TOP 10 Largest  Deserts in the world:

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Here you can find the information of largest deserts in the world.

1.Antarctic Desert 

• It is located in Alaska,Canada,Greeenland,Iceland,FinlandNorway,sweden,Russia.
• Its area is about 14,200,000 Square kilometers and 5,500,000 square miles.
• Antarctic area includes water,Ice shelves and Island territories.

2. Arctic Desert 

• It is located in Norway and Russia.
• Its square area is about 14,090,000 square kilometres and 5,440,000 square miles.   
• Largest colonies of Ivory gull are located in this region.

3. Sahara Desert

•  It is located in Northern Africa.
• Its area is about 9,100,000 sqaure kilometer and 3,500,000 square miles.
• It is also known as World's largest low-latitude hot desert.

4. Arabian Desert

• It is located in South-west Asia.
• Its area is about 2,330,000 Square kilometers and 900,000 square miles.
• Arabian desert is an extension of sahara desert over arabian peninsula.

5. Gobi Desert

• It is located in Central Asia.
• Its area is about 1,295,000 square kilometers and 500,000 square miles.
• Generally gobi is a cold desert sometimes snow occurs on its dunes. 

6. Kalahari Desert

• It is located in Sub-saharan Africa.
• Its area is about 9,000,000 square kilometers and 360,000 square miles.
• Kalahari desert receives high rainfall than other deserts.

7. Patagonian Desert

• It is located in Aargentina/Chile.
• Its area is about 673,000 squrae kilometers and 260,000 square miles.
• The huge dinosaur walked from middle of the patagonian desert.

8. Great Victoria Desert

• It is located in Australia.
• Its area is about 647,000 square kilometres and 250,000 square miles.
• The great victoria desert is a testing range for nuclear weapons.

9. Syrian Desert

• It is located in Middle East.
• Its squrae area is about 520,000 square kilometers and 200,000 square miles.
• The animals in the Syrian desert need to make adaptations in order to survive in bad weather conditions.

10. Great Basin Desert

• It is locateed in USA.
• Its area is about 492,000 square kilometers and 190,000 square miles.
• Basin desert is a coldest desert due to its northern latitude.