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The Arabian Desert (Arabic: ٱلصَّحْرَاء ٱلْعَرَبِيَّة) is a vast desert wilderness in West Asia that occupies almost the entire Arabian Peninsula with an area of 2,330,000 square kilometers (900,000 sq mi). [3] It stretches from Yemen to the Persian Gulf and Oman to Jordan and Iraq.
Category: Deserts of Asia by country. 6 languages. ... Deserts of the United Arab Emirates (4 P) Deserts of Uzbekistan (5 P) Y. Deserts of Yemen (4 P)
Bayuda Desert – a desert covering eastern Sudan located just at the southwest of the Nubian Desert; Sinai Desert – a desert located on the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt; Atlantic Coastal Desert – a desert lying along the western coast of the Sahara Desert and occupies a narrow strip in Western Sahara and Mauritania
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
The Bedouin originated in the Syrian Desert [18] and Arabian Desert but spread across the rest of the Arab world in West Asia and North Africa after the spread of Islam. [19] The English word bedouin comes from the Arabic badawī, which means "desert-dweller", and is traditionally contrasted with ḥāḍir, the term for sedentary people. [20]
Deserts of Central Asia (4 C, 14 P) Deserts of Asia by country (20 C) Pages in category "Deserts of Asia" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
West Asia (also called Western Asia or Southwest Asia) is the westernmost region of Asia. As defined by most academics, UN bodies and other institutions, the subregion consists of Anatolia, the Arabian Peninsula, Iran, Mesopotamia, the Armenian highlands, the Levant, the island of Cyprus, the Sinai Peninsula and the South Caucasus.
Hot desert climates are found across vast areas of North Africa, West Asia, northwestern parts of the Indian Subcontinent, southwestern Africa, interior Australia, the Southwestern United States, northern Mexico, sections of southeastern Spain, the coast of Peru and Chile and parts of the Brazilian sertão. This makes hot deserts present in ...