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Top 10 Largest Hot Deserts

1-Sahara Desert 


The Sahara Desert is the greatest and largest hot desert of the world while after the Antarctica and Arctic it is considered the biggest desert in the world. The Sahara Desert is basically located in the region of Africa and it is stretched through thirteen countries. This largest hot desert covered more than 9,400,000 square kilometers area and it can be divided into different regions and the climate of this desert is very hot and warm in the daytime.

2-Arabian Desert 


The Arabian Desert is regarded as the second most famous and largest hot desert in the world. This vast desert is basically located in the Western Asia and stretched from Yemen to Persian Gulf and even from Oman to Iraq and Jordan. The Arabian Desert encompasses most of the "Arabian Peninsula", it covers more than 2,330,000 square kilometers area and its center is the "Rub'al-Khali". The Arabian Desert has a severe hot desert climate.

3-Kalahari Desert 


The Kalahari Desert comes on the number three in the list of the largest hot deserts of the world. It is basically a semi-arid sandy savannah, and it encompasses several areas of South Africa and Botswana, and some parts of the Namibia. The Kalahari Desert, in fact, covers more than 900,000 square kilometers area. It is considered a semi-desert because it produces a great number of huge tracts of grazing after the good rains.

4-The Great Victoria Desert 


The Great Victoria Desert is the fourth largest desert and famous desert of the world while it is also regarded as the largest desert in Australia. The Great Victoria Desert is basically located in Australia and it covers more than 348,750 square kilometers area. This great desert consists of a great number of small sandhills, gibber plains and it is also packed with the grassland plains. The temperature of the Great Victoria Desert is not very severe.

5-Syrian Desert 


The Syrian Desert is considered the fifth most famous and largest hot desert in the world. This desert is basically a splendid combination of true desert and the steppe. The Syrian Desert is located in the Northern part of the "Arabian Peninsula" and it encompasses portions of Iraq, Syria, Saudi Arabia and Jordan. The Syrian Desert is very flat and rocky, it covers more than 500,000 square kilometers area.

6-Chihuahuan Desert 


The Chihuahuan Desert is also included in the list of the most famous and largest hot deserts of the world. It is not only a desert but also an ecoregion designation. The Chihuahuan Desert is considered the second largest desert in the North America while the third largest desert in the Western Hemisphere. This great desert basically covers more than 362,000 square kilometers area and I encompasses the northern parts of Mexican Plateau and U.S.-Mexico border.

7-Great Sandy Desert 


The Great Sandy Desert is regarded as the seventh most famous and largest hot desert in the world. It is basically an interim bioregion of Australia and it is located in the North-West of the "Western Australia", encompasses the Southern Kimberley and Pilbara regions. The Great Sandy Desert is regarded as the second largest desert of Australia and it covers more than 284,993 square kilometers area.

8-Sonoran Desert


The Sonoran Desert comes on the number eight in the list of the most popular and largest hot desert in the world. It is basically located in the North America and it encompasses the several parts of the Southwestern United States in California and Arizona and also some parts of the Northwestern Mexico such as Baja California and Sonora. The Sonoran Desert is considered the hottest desert of the North America, it covers more than 260,000 square kilometers area.

9-Thar Desert 


The Thar Desert is the fourth most notable and largest hot desert in the world. This great the desert is commonly known as "The Great Indian Desert", it is basically located in the northwestern part of the subcontinent India and it forms a complete natural boundary between Pakistan and India. Almost eighty-five percent area of Thar Desert is in India while the remaining part is in Pakistan, it is also regarded as the seventeenth largest desert of the world.

10-Gibson Desert 


The Gibson Desert is also included in the last of our list of the ten most famous and largest hot deserts of the world. This great desert is basically an interim bioregion of Australia, and it is situated in Australia. The Gibson Desert is regarded as the fifth largest desert in Australia and it encompasses the large dry area of the state of Western Australia. The Gibson Desert covers more than 155,000 square kilometers area.

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