| Desert |
Location |
Area (sq km/sq mi) |
| Antarctic Desert |
Antarctica |
1,42,00,000 sq km/55,00,000 sq mi |
| Arctic Desert |
Alaska (United States), Finland, Greenland (Denmark), Iceland, Canada, Norway, Sweden and Russia |
13,900,000 sq km/5,400,000 sq mi |
| Sahara Desert |
Egypt, Chad, Eritrea, Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Mali, Morocco, Niger, Tunisia, Sudan, Western Sahara |
9,400,000 sq km/3,629,360 sq mi |
| Arabian Desert |
Saudi Arabia, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Oman,Iraq, Jordan, Yemen and Kuwait |
23,30,000 sq km/8,99,618 sq mi |
| Gobi Desert |
China, Mongolia |
13,00,000 sq km/5,00,000 sq mi |
| Kalahari Desert |
Angola, South Africa, Botswana and Namibia |
900,000 sq km/360,000 sq mi |
| Patagonian Desert |
Argentina, Chile |
6,70,000 sq km/2,60,000 sq mi |
| Great Victoria Desert |
Australia |
6,47,000 sq km/2,50,000 sq mi |
| Syrian Desert |
Jordan, Iraq and Syria |
520,000 sq km/200,000 sq mi |
| Great Basin Desert |
United States |
4,92,000 sq km/1,90,000 sq mi |
| Great Sandy Desert |
Australia |
4,00,000 sq km/1,50,000 sq mi |
| Taklamakan Desert |
China |
3,37,000 sq km/1,30,116 sq mi |
| Sonoran Desert |
United States, Mexico |
310,000 sq km/1,20,000 sq mi |
| Thar Desert |
India, Pakistan |
2,00,000 sq km/77,000 sq mi |
| Namib Desert |
Namibia, Angola |
81,000 sq km/31,274 sq mi |
| Dasht-e Kavir |
Iran |
77,600 sq km/30,000 sq mi |
