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• The Namib is a coastal desert in Southern Africa.
• Countries: Namibia, South Africa, Angola
• Oldest desert in the world, over 55 million years old.
• Official name Namib Sand Sea
• Length: 1,600 km (990 mi)
• Area: 160,000 km2 (62,000 mi2)

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• Taklamakan Desert is the largest desert in northwest China.
• It is the second-largest desert in the world.
• Located in the Tarim Basin, Southern Xinjiang, surrounded by major mountain ranges.
• It lies inside the Tarim Basin, bordered by Kunlun Mountains (S), Pamir Mountains (W), Tian Shan (N), and Gobi Desert (E).
• Known as a “Sea of Death” due to its harsh climate and shifting sand dunes.
• Area: ~337,000 sq km

Last verified on 04-04-2026

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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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• 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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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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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

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The Gobi Desert is a vast, arid region in northern China and southern Mongolia.

Area of the Gobi Desert: 1.295 million km²

Elevation of the Gobi Desert: 1,580 m

Length of the Gobi Desert: 1,500 km (930 mi)

Region of the Gobi Desert: Inner Mongolia

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