Our world is a mysterious and beautiful planet.
Different types of natural elements including sea, river, and mountains have made our planet
mysterious.
In today's episode, we will learn about the top 10 largest deserts in the world as a part
of knowing the mysterious world.
The Karakum Desert is a desert in Central Asia, and it is the 10th largest desert in
the world.
This desert covers a huge portion of Turkmenistan.
It is a sand desert stretching 350,000 square kilometers from the Caspian Sea to Pamir foothills
and from the Amu Darya to Kopet Dag ridge.
The Karakum Desert is home to the Darvaza Gas Crater or the Door to Hell which has been
burning since 1971.
The Chihuahuan Desert is a desert and ecoregion designation covering parts of northern Mexico
and the southwestern United States.
The total area of this desert is about 501,896 square kilometers, and it is the 9th largest
desert in the world.
The desert is mainly a rain shadow desert because the two main mountains range covering
the desert.
The daily temperature of the coldest month is warmer than 0 degrees Celsius.
The majority of rain falls between late June and early October, during the North American
Monsoon.
The Great Basin Desert is part of the Great Basin between the Sierra Nevada and the Wasatch
Range.
The desert spans a large part of the state of Nevada and extends into western Utah, eastern
California, and Idaho.
There are more than 33 peaks within the desert with summits higher than 9,800 feet, but valleys
in the region are also high, most with elevations above 3,900 feet.
The total area of this desert is about 492,098 square kilometers.
This desert is the coldest of the deserts in North America, and the average temperature
is 32 degrees Celsius.
The Syrian Desert is a region of desert, semi-desert, and steppe covering 500,000 square kilometers
of the Middle East, including parts of southeastern Syria, northeastern Jordan, northern Saudi
Arabia, and western Iraq.
The desert was historically inhabited by Bedouin tribes, and many tribes still remain in the
region.
This desert ecosystem is under threat from drought, over-grazing, hunting, and other
human activities.
Some native animals no longer inhabit this area, and many plant species have already
died.
The Patagonian Desert is the sixth-largest desert in the world.
This large area is located across Argentina, Chile, and parts of the Falkland Islands.
Covering an area of 673000 square kilometers.
This desert is a major winter area.
The average temperature here is only 3 degrees centigrade, and the maximum temperature is
12 degrees centigrade.
Naturally, the region has seven months of winter and five months of summer.
The Kalahari Desert is the fifth largest desert
in our mysterious world.
Covering an area of 900,000 square kilometers, this vast desert is located in Botswana, Namibia,
and South Africa.
To the north and east of this desert is a large arid forest.
The average annual temperature in this region ranges from about 16 centigrade to 40 centigrade.
The desert is home to a wide variety of flora and fauna, and they are able to adapt to rough
climates.
The Gobi Desert is the fourth-largest desert in the world.
Covering an area of 1.29 million square kilometer, this vast desert region covers 2 countries
China and Mongolia.
Not all parts of the Gobi Desert are sandy, but much of it is covered by rocks.
This region is a major winter area, and snowfalls here for a lot of the time of the year.
The average temperature here is about minus 43 degrees Celsius in winter, and about 45
degrees Celsius in summer.
The Arabian Desert is the third largest desert
on our mysterious planet.
Covering an area of 2.3 million square kilometers, this vast desert covers almost 9 Arab countries,
including Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Palestine, Jordan, and Kuwait.
This region is mainly an area of intense warmth.
The average year-round temperature here is about 40 degrees Celsius, but at the summer,
this temperature exceeds 50 degrees Celsius.
The average annual rainfall in this arid region is only about 100 millimeters.
The
named deserts of Australia, cover 2,700,000 square kilometers, or 18% of the Australian
mainland.
The deserts in Australia are primarily distributed throughout the Western Plateau, and interior
lowlands of the country.
The deserts in Western Australia are well explained by the little evaporation of the
cold sea current of the West Australian Current, which prevents significant rainfall in the
interior of the continent.
In Central Australia, average daily summer temperatures are typically 37 to 39 degrees
Celsius.
The Sahara desert is the largest desert in our
beautiful world.
Covering an area of 9.2 million square kilometers, this vast desert region covers almost 10 countries,
including Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, and Libya.
The region has a very hot and dry climate with an average temperature of 6 degrees Celsius,
and an average annual rainfall of only 20 centimeters.
There are many nomadic people living in this desert region.
Grass, shrubs, and small trees grow in some parts of the desert.
The desert is home to 80 species of mammals, 90 species of birds, and 100 species of reptiles.
This desert is a great mystery of this world.