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     The Mojave Desert is approximately 124,000 square kilometres in size

     It is the tiniest desert in North America.


     The Mojave Desert is mostly above 610 metres (2,000 feet).
     he Joshua tree is native to the Mojave Desert, and it supports an additional
    1,750 to 2,000 plant species.
     On July 10, 1913, the Furnace Creek Ranch in Death Valley, California, recorded
    the world’s hottest temperature of 56.7 °C (134 °F).

     The Arabian Desert spans about 900,000 square miles, more than four times the
    size of France, Western Europe’s largest country.
     It is the world’s second-largest desert, only the Sahara being greater.
     Mount Al-Nabi Shu’ayb in Yemen, which stands at 3,760 metres hieght
     The world’s longest continuous expanse of sand is found in the Rub’al-Khali
    desert.
     In 1936 oil was discovered in this area

     1) Thar desert is the 18 th largest subtropical desert in the world .


     2) It is rather large 800km long and 400 km wide.
     3) It spreads over 4 Indian states - Gujarat , Haryana , Punjab and Rajasthan.
     5) It is a large arid region with a landscape dominated by sand dunes varying in size
    from 52 feet in the north to 498 feet in the south .
     7) The climate here is extreme . In winter the temperature goes down below 0
    degree while in summers it is above 50 degree .
     8) It has uneven large sand dunes and the soil is mostly sandy in texture
     sahara desert is the biggest dessert, about 3.6 million square miles, the Sahara
    Desert is as big as China or the U.S.A.
     The desert cover most of North Africa, and across the countries of Morocco, Algeria,
    Chad, Egypt, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Western Sahara, Sudan and Tunisia.
     The record high temperature of the Sahara was 136°F
     The desert is made up primarily of rocky hamada landscapes. In fact, it is just 30%
    sand, the remaining 70% being mostly gravel.
     Lake Chad is the only freshwater lake in sahara desert.

     Dasth-e kavir Desert is a great salt desert located in north-central Iran


     it is approximately 240 miles (390 km) wide.
     The desert is distinguished by its salt crust, caused by the almost rainless climate
    and intense surface evaporation.
     Dasth-e kavir Desert have properties similar to quicksand, traveling in the Dasht-e
    Kavir is extremely dangerous.

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