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Desert State/Territory Area (km 2) Area (miles 2) Area rank % of Australia Great Victoria Desert: South Australia Western Australia: 348,750 km 2: 134,650 sq mi 1 4.5% Great Sandy Desert: Northern Territory Western Australia 267,250 km 2: 103,190 sq mi 2 3.5% Tanami Desert: Northern Territory Western Australia 184,500 km 2: 71,200 sq mi 3 2.4% ...
This is a list of the largest deserts in the world by area. It includes all deserts above 50,000 km 2 (19,300 sq mi). ... Australia: 13: Taklamakan Desert: Cold winter
A population density map of Australia. Most of the continent is very sparsely populated, but only a few areas are truly deserted. Even the driest regions of Australia have indigenous communities within them. In 1984, a previously uncontacted family of Pintupi emerged from the Gibson Desert. [4]
Representative deserts include the Sahara Desert in North Africa, the Australian Desert in Western and Southern Australia, Arabian Desert and Syrian Desert in Western Asia, the Kalahari Desert in Southern Africa, Sonoran Desert in the United States and Mexico, Mojave Desert in the United States, Thar Desert in India and Pakistan, Dasht-e Margo ...
This makes it the sixth-largest country in the world by area of jurisdiction, which comprises 7,686,850 km 2 (2,967,910 sq mi) (including Lord Howe Island and Macquarie Island), which is slightly smaller than the 48 states of the contiguous United States and 31.5 times larger than that of the United Kingdom.
Sahara Desert – Africa's largest desert and the world's largest hot desert which covers much of North Africa comprising: Ténéré – a desert covering northeastern Niger and western Chad Sahara Desert; Tanezrouft – a desert covering northern Mali, northwestern Niger as well as central and southern Algeria, at the west of the Hoggar Mountains
Dymaxion map of the world with the 30 largest countries and territories by area. This is a list of the world's countries and their dependencies, ranked by total area, including land and water. This list includes entries that are not limited to those in the ISO 3166-1 standard, which covers sovereign states and dependent territories.
Largest hot desert in the world. Australasian Mediterranean Sea: 9,080,000: Mediterranean sea located in the area between Southeast Asia and Australasia. Oceania: 9,008,458: Geopolitical area including Australia and other islands and territories in the Pacific Ocean. Xiongnu Empire: 9,000,000 Size at greatest extent in 176 BC. Brazil: 8,514,877