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The desert covers some 650,000 km 2 (250,000 sq mi) (the area of long. 44°30′−56°30′E, and lat. 16°30′−23°00′N) including parts of Saudi Arabia, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. [3] It is part of the larger Arabian Desert.
Al Khatim Desert is a desert between Al Ain and Abu Dhabi.. The local tour operators those who conduct 4x4 Desert Safari tours from Abu Dhabi created many fabulous track that meanders between untouched ranges of sand dunes, following the valleys that naturally occur where alluvial plains gently percolate underground run-off water from the Omani mountains in the direction of Abu Dhabi city.
Gulf of Oman desert and semi-desert; R. Rub' al Khali This page was last edited on 21 January 2025, at 23:44 (UTC). ... Category: Deserts of the United Arab Emirates.
This climate features stable air and high pressure aloft, producing a hot, arid desert. Hot-month temperatures typically average 29–35 °C (84–95 °F). [6] [7] Peak temperatures of 50 50 °C (122 °F) have been recorded. Northerly winds often bring sandstorms. Humidity near the coast can reach 90% in the summer.
Wadi al-Rummah or ar-Rummah (ar: وادي الرمة) is one of the Arabian Peninsula's longest river valleys, at a length of almost 600 km (370 mi). Now mostly dry and partly blocked by encroaching sand dunes, the wadi rises near Medina at Jibāl al Abyaḑ (the White Mountain). It then runs northeast, joining several smaller wadis; among them ...
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The Arabian Desert is actually an extension of the Sahara Desert over the Arabian peninsula. The climate is mainly dry. Most areas get around 100 mm (3.9 in) of rain per year. Unlike the Sahara Desert—more than half of which is hyperarid (having rainfall of less than 50 mm (2.0 in) per year)—the Arabian Desert has only a few hyperarid areas ...
The Sahara (/ s ə ˈ h ɑːr ə /, / s ə ˈ h ær ə /) is a desert spanning across North Africa.With an area of 9,200,000 square kilometres (3,600,000 sq mi), it is the largest hot desert in the world and the third-largest desert overall, smaller only than the deserts of Antarctica and the northern Arctic.