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Arabian Desert. 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.
This is a list of the largest deserts in the world ... Rank Name Type Image Area (km 2) Area (sq mi) ... Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and ...
Nefud Desert – a desert in northern part of the Arabian Peninsula. Ramlat al-Sab`atayn – a desert in north-central Yemen. Wahiba Sands – a desert covering great parts of Oman. Aerial view of Negev. Judaean Desert – a desert in eastern Israel and the West Bank. Negev – a desert located in southern Israel.
Eastern Desert. 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.
Rub' al Khali. The Rub' al Khali[note 1] (/ ˈrʊb æl ˈkɑːli /; [1] Arabic: ٱلرُّبْع ٱلْخَالِي, [ar.rʊbʕ‿al.χaːliː]) or Empty Quarter is a desert [2] encompassing most of the southern third of the Arabian Peninsula. The desert covers some 650,000 km 2 (250,000 sq mi) (the area of long. 44°30′−56°30′E, and lat ...
The Syrian Desert (Arabic: بادية الشام Bādiyat Ash-Shām), also known as the North Arabian Desert, [1] the Jordanian steppe, or the Badiya, [2] is a region of desert, semi-desert, and steppe, covering approx. 500,000 square kilometers (200,000 square miles) of West Asia, including parts of northern Saudi Arabia, eastern Jordan, southern Syria, and western Iraq.
Ethiopian xeric grasslands and shrublands. Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan. Gulf of Oman desert and semi-desert. Oman, United Arab Emirates. Hobyo grasslands and shrublands. Somalia. Ile Europa and Bassas da India xeric scrub. Bassas da India, Europa. Kalahari xeric savanna.
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: