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Tanami Desert: Northern Territory Western Australia 184,500 km 2: 71,200 sq mi 3 2.4% Simpson Desert: Northern Territory Queensland South Australia 176,500 km 2: 68,100 sq mi 4 2.3% Gibson Desert: Western Australia 156,000 km 2: 60,000 sq mi 5 2.0% Little Sandy Desert: Western Australia 111,500 km 2: 43,100 sq mi 6 1.5% Strzelecki Desert: New ...
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). Some of Earth 's biggest non-polar deserts
3 Europe. Toggle Europe subsection. 3.1 Spain. 3.2 Other European nations. 4 North America. ... Tanami Desert in Australia. Central Desert – a central Australian ...
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]
The Nama Karoo of Namibia has the world's richest desert fauna. [8] The Chihuahuan desert and Central Mexican matorral are the richest deserts in the Neotropics. [9] The Carnarvon xeric shrublands of Australia are a regional center for endemism. [1] The Sonoran and Baja deserts of Mexico are unusual desert communities dominated by giant ...
European interest in the Sahara Desert stems from its two aspects: the almost continual daytime sunshine and plenty of unused land. The Sahara receives more sunshine per acre than any part of Europe. The Sahara Desert also has the empty space totalling hundreds of square miles required to house fields of mirrors for solar plants. [127]
Pages in category "Deserts of Europe" ... Tabernas Desert This page was last edited on 29 December 2013, at 23:03 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
Deserts of Australia (7 C, 3 P) B. Deserts of Bahrain (1 P) ... Deserts of the United Arab Emirates (4 P) Deserts of the United States (6 C, 7 P) Deserts of ...