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Arabian
Location:
The Middle East, stretching from Yemen to the Arabian Gulf
and Oman to Jordan and Iraq
Size: 1 million square miles
Type: hot subtropial
Features: world's largest expanse of unbroken sand, red dunes,
rocky highlands
Gobi
Location: Mongolia and China
Size: 500,000 square miles
Type: cold winter
Features: steppes (dry grasslands); the western portion of
the desert is entirely sandy
Takla
Makan
Location: Western China
Size: 200,000 square miles
Type: cold winter
Features: sand dunes, rocky soil
Thar
(also called Great India Desert)
Location: Afghanistan, Pakistan, India
Size: 175,000 square miles
Type: hot subtropical
Features: sand dunes, gravel plains, craggy rock forms
Kara
Kum
Location: Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan
Size: 135,000 square miles
Type: cold winter
Features: gray layered sand
Kyzyl
Kum
Location: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan
Size: 115,000 square miles
Type: cold winter
Features: rocky areas covered by sparse vegetation and shifting
sand dunes
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