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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 about 500,000 square kilometers (200,000 square miles) of West Asia, including parts of northern Saudi Arabia, eastern Jordan, southern Syria, and western Iraq.
In the east is the Syrian Desert and in the south is the Jabal al-Druze Range. The former is bisected by the Euphrates valley. A dam built in 1973 on the Euphrates created a reservoir named Lake Assad, the largest lake in Syria. The highest point in Syria is Mount Hermon on the Lebanese border at 2,814 metres or 9,232 feet. Between the humid ...
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). ... Syrian Desert: Subtropical: 500,000 [5]
Kharan desert – a desert located in Pakistan; Syrian desert – a desert located in Syria, Jordan and Iraq; Thal Desert – a desert in Pakistan; Thar Desert – a desert in India and Pakistan Gobi in Mongolia. Cholistan Desert – a desert in Pakistan; Dasht-e-Margo – a desert in southwestern Afghanistan; Kyzyl Kum – a desert in ...
The Harrat near Jawa in eastern Jordan. The Ḥarrat al-Shām (Arabic: حَرَّة ٱلشَّام), [1] [nb 1] also known as the Harrat al-Harra, Harrat al-Shaba, [2] Syro-Jordanian Harrah, [3] and sometimes the Black Desert in English, [4] is a region of rocky, basaltic desert stretching from southern Syria starting at the Hauran region all the way down to the northern Arabian Peninsula. [3]
The wildlife of Syria is the flora and fauna of Syria, a country at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea.Besides its coastline, the country has a coastal plain, mountain ranges in the west, a semi-arid steppe area in the centre occupying most of the country, and a desert area in the east.
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Syria is the twelfth most water-stressed country in the world. Syria's climate varies from the humid Mediterranean coast, through a semi-arid steppe zone, to arid desert in the east. The country consists mostly of arid plateau, although the northwest part bordering the Mediterranean is fairly green.