| S.No |
Desert Name |
Address |
Area in km² |
Coordinates |
| 1 |
Jaisalmer |
Jaisalmer,Rajasthan |
5.1 |
26.913°N 70.915°E |
| 2 |
Kutch – Gujarat (White Salt Desert) |
Gujarat (White Salt Desert) |
27,454 |
24.0454° N, 70.1456° E
|
| 3 |
Pushkar |
Ajmer, Rajasthan |
10 |
26.4891° N, 74.5472° E
|
| 4 |
Bikaner |
Bikaner, Rajasthan |
270 |
28.0607° N, 73.4730° E |
| 5 |
Jodhpur |
Jodhpur, Rajasthan |
233.5 |
26.2864° N, 73.0365° E |
| 6 |
Chittorgarh |
Chittorgarh, Rajasthan |
41 |
24.88°N 74.63°E |
| 7 |
Kumbhalgarh |
Rajsamand district, Rajasthan, India |
2.67902 |
25°8′56″N 73°34′49″E |
| 8 |
Ajmer |
Ajmer district, Rajasthan, India |
55 |
26.449896″N 74.639915″E |
| 9 |
Bundi |
Bundi district, Rajasthan, India |
- |
25.430513″N 75.649902″E |
| 10 |
Khimsar |
Khimsar Village, Rajasthan |
- |
26.9769″N 73.4008″E |
| 11 |
Ladakh |
Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir |
59,146 |
34.152588″N 77.577049″E |
| 12 |
Spiti – Himachal Pradesh (Desert Mountain Valley) |
Lahaul and Spiti district,Himachal Pradesh, India |
- |
31° 6' 40″ to 32° 2' 20″ N 77° 4' 21″ to 78° 6' 19″ E |
| 13 |
Nubra Valley – Kashmir |
Ladakh,Kashmir |
- |
34.6″N 77.7″E |
| 14 |
Great Thar Desert |
Boundary between India and Pakistan |
238,254 |
27.4695″N 70.6217″E |
The Largest Deserts in the World
A desert is a barren area of landscape where little precipitation occurs
and, consequently, living conditions are hostile for plant and animal life. The
lack of vegetation exposes the unprotected surface of the ground to the
processes of denudation. It includes all deserts above 50,000 square kilometers (19,300 sq mi) in
the world.
|
S.No
|
Name
|
Type
|
Area (KM2)
|
Location
|
|
1
|
Antarctica
|
Polar ice and tundra
|
14,000,000
|
Antarctica
|
|
2
|
Arctic
|
Polar ice and tundra
|
13,985,000
|
Arctic (Alaska, Canada, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Russia and Sweden)
|
|
3
|
Sahara
|
Subtropical
|
9,000,000
|
North
Africa (Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Eritrea, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Sudan and Tunisia)
|
|
4
|
Australian Desert
|
Subtropical
|
2,700,000
|
Australia
|
|
5
|
Arabian Desert
|
Subtropical
|
2,330,000
|
Western Asia (Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab
Emirates and Yemen)
|
|
6
|
Gobi Desert
|
Cold Winter
|
1,295,000
|
Central Asia (China and Mongolia)
|
|
7
|
Kalahari Desert
|
Subtropical
|
900,000
|
Southern Africa (Angola, Botswana, Namibia and South Africa)
|
|
8
|
Patagonian Desert
|
Cold Winter
|
620,000
|
South America (Argentina and Chile)
|
|
9
|
Syrian Desert
|
Subtropical
|
520,000
|
Western Asia (Iraq, Jordan, and Syria)
|
|
10
|
Great Basin
|
Cold Winter
|
492,000
|
United States
|
|
11
|
Chihuahuan Desert
|
Subtropical
|
450,000
|
North America (Mexico and the United States)
|
|
12
|
Karakum Desert
|
Cold Winter
|
350,000
|
Turkmenistan
|
|
13
|
Colorado Plateau
|
Cold Winter
|
337,000
|
United States
|
|
14
|
Sonoran Desert
|
Subtropical
|
310,000
|
North America (Mexico and the United States)
|
|
15
|
Kyzylkum Desert
|
Cold Winter
|
300,000
|
Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan)
|
|
16
|
Taklamakan Desert
|
Cold Winter
|
270,000
|
China
|
|
17
|
Thar Desert
|
Subtropical
|
200,000
|
South Asia (India and Pakistan)
|
|
18
|
Dasht-e Margo
|
Subtropical
|
150,000
|
Afghanistan
|
|
19
|
Registan Desert
|
Subtropical
|
146,000
|
Afghanistan
|
|
20
|
Atacama Desert
|
Mild Coastal
|
140,000
|
South America (Chile and Peru)
|
|
21
|
Mojave Desert
|
Subtropical
|
124,000
|
United States
|
|
22
|
Columbia Basin
|
Cold Winter
|
83,100
|
United States
|
|
23
|
Namib Desert
|
Cool Coastal
|
81,000
|
Southern Africa (Angola and Namibia)
|
|
24
|
Dasht e Kavir
|
Subtropical
|
77,000
|
Iran
|
|
25
|
Dasht e Loot
|
Subtropical
|
52,000
|
Iran
|
|