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The Kalahari Desert is a large semiarid sandy savanna in Southern Africa

Covering 900,000 km2 (350,000 sq mi),

Including much of Botswana, as well as parts of Namibia and South Africa.

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Europe is the only continent without a desert.

It has a temperate climate with sufficient rainfall.

Key information about Europe:

• Divided by the Ural Mountains
• Second-smallest continent
• Covers 2% of Earth’s surface
• Area: 10.18 million km²

Last verified on 16-01-2026

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• Area: ~2,330,000 km²
• Location: Covers Saudi Arabia, Oman, UAE, Yemen, Jordan, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar

• 1. Sahara – 9,200,000 km²
• 3. Gobi – 1,295,000 km²
• 4. Kalahari – 900,000 km²

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Taklamakan Desert is the largest desert in northwest China..

It is the second largest in the world.

Located inside the Tarim Basin in Southern Xinjiang, it is bounded by

• the Kunlun Mountains to the south
• the Pamir Mountains to the west
• the Tian Shan range to the north
• the Gobi Desert to the east

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The Great Sandy Desert is located in Australia.

It specifically in the northwest part of the country.

It covering around 284,000 square kilometers.

It is the second largest desert in the entire continent.

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On 26 December 2004, at 07:58:53 local time (UTC+7), a Mw 9.2–9.3 earthquake struck with its epicenter off the west coast of Aceh, in northern Sumatra, Indonesia.

The undersea megathrust earthquake, known in the scientific community as the Sumatra–Andaman earthquake

It was caused by a rupture along the fault boundary between the Burma Plate and the Indian Plate

The 14 countries significantly affected were:

1. Indonesia
2. Sri Lanka
3. India
4. Thailand
5. Maldives
6. Somalia
7. Myanmar (Burma)
8. Malaysia
9. Tanzania
10. Bangladesh
11. Seychelles
12. South Africa
13. Kenya
14. Yemen 

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The Kharan Desert is a sandy and mountainous desert situated in Balochistan Province in south-western Pakistan.

The Kharan desert in Balochistan near the border of Iran.

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The Sahara is a desert on the African continent.

The Sahara desert is the largest hot desert in the world.

Area: 9.2 million km²

Length: 4,800 km (3,000 mi)

Width: 1,800 km

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The Sahara Desert is the largest hot desert in the world.

The Sahara is a desert on the African continent.

Length: 4,800 km (3,000 mi)

while 

Carcross is the smallest desert in the world, located in Canada

List of top Deserts

Explanation

It is the world's 18th-largest desert and the world's 9th-largest hot subtropical desert.

About Thar Desert

15% located in Pakistan

85% located in India

Also called Friendly Desert

Located near Badin, Sindh 

Famous for: Sand 

Coal also found in Thar 

also known as Great Indian Desert