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This is a list of deserts sorted by the region of the world in which the desert is located. ... Arabian Desert – desert complex on the Arabian Peninsula comprising:
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). ... Arabian Desert: Subtropical
The Arabian Desert has a subtropical, hot desert climate, similar to the climate of the Sahara Desert (the world's largest hot desert). 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 ...
Arabian Peninsula coastal fog desert: Oman, Saudi Arabia, Yemen: Aldabra Island xeric scrub: Seychelles: East Saharan montane xeric woodlands: Chad, Sudan: Eritrean coastal desert ...
Almost 80% of it is covered in desert (10,666,637 of 13,333,296 km2), stretching from Mauritania and Morocco to Oman and the UAE. [citation needed] The second most common terrain is the semi-arid terrain, which found in all Arab countries except Lebanon and Comoros. [citation needed] Several deserts span the Arab world:
Arabian desert (Palearctic) Persian Gulf desert and semi-desert (Palearctic) Red Sea Nubo-Sindian tropical desert and semi-desert (Palearctic) Southwestern Arabian montane woodlands (Afrotropical) Southwestern Arabian foothills savanna (Afrotropical) Arabian Peninsula coastal fog desert (Afrotropical)
In antiquity, the term "Arabia" encompassed a larger area than the current term "Arabian Peninsula" and included the Arabian desert and large parts of the Syrian-Arabian desert. During the Hellenistic period, the area was known as Arabia (Ancient Greek: Ἀραβία). The Romans named three regions "Arabia":
The Eastern Desert (known archaically as Arabia or the Arabian Desert [1] [2]) is the part of the Sahara Desert that is located east of the Nile River.It spans 223,000 square kilometres (86,000 sq mi) of northeastern Africa and is bordered by the Gulf of Suez and the Red Sea to the east, and the Nile River to the west.