The Great Sandy Desert is 360,000 km2 (140,000 square miles) surface in the northwest of Australia. About the same size as Japan, forms it for part of a larger surface than desert of the western desert well-known. The enormous region of west Australia is thinly populated, without considerable settlements. The Great Sandy Desert is an even surface between the rocky ranges of the Pilbara and the Kimberley. In the southeast the giving on desert is and in the east is the Tanami desert. The Rudall River park and Lake Dora is national into the southwest, while Lake Mackay lies in the southeast.

The Chihuahua desert is a desert that the American-Mexican border borders into the central and northern part of the Mexican high country, in the west by the Sierra Madre Occidental extensive pallet spans, and overlaying northern parts east pallet, the Sierra Madre Oriental. On the American side it takes it in the valleys and basins of the central and southern new Mexico, Texas west the Pecos River and southeast of Arizona, south the border, covers the northern half of the Mexican Federal State Chihuahua, most of Coahuila, north East part of the Durango, extreme northern part of Zacatecas and small parts of the western Nuevo León. It has a surface of approximately 140,000 square miles. It is the third largest desert of the western hemisphere and is the second largest in North America, after the Great Basin Desert.

The Great Basin is largest Wasserscheide of North America, which does not let not drip off to a sea. Water in the Great Basin evaporated since discharge quantity is blocked. The basin extends in Mexico and covers most of Nevada and over half of the Utah, as well as parts of California, Idaho, Oregon and Wyoming. The majority of the Wasserscheide is in the North American desert Ökoregion, but covers ranges the wooded mountains and Mediterranean California Ökoregionen. The Great Basin covers several population centres and Shoshone Great Basin of trunks. Large variety of animals can be found in Great Basin desert. Before rocky tendencies approximately around the desert the mountain ranges, you know locally a very rare desert of thick horn sheep. Other mammals of the desert belong to kit fox, Kojote, stinking animals, black tailed Jackrabbit, ground squirrels, Känguru rat and many kinds of mice. Kinds of bird are very various in the desert oases.

The large Victoria desert is a meager, dry and thinly populated desert in southern Australia Ökoregion. It falls in the States of South Australia and Western Australia and consists of many small sand hills, grass country and salt lakes. It is broad over 700 kilometers (430 miles) (of the west eastward) and covers a surface of 424,400 square kilometers (163,900 square miles). The Western Australia Mallee bush Ökoregion is appropriate for shrub country in the west, the Little Sandy Desert in the northwest, separates the Gibson Desert and the cent ral of rank xeric in the north, the Tirari Sturt and stone deserts in the east, and the Nullarbor Plain into the south it from the southern ocean.

The patagonischen desert, which admits also as Desert Patagonien or the patagonischen steppe, is the largest desert in America and is the 7th largest desert of the world by the area, occupies 260,000 square meters of miles (673,000 km). It is particularly in Argentina with small parts in Chile and by the Anden is limited, their west and the Atlantic ocean in the east, in the region Patagonien, in southern Argentina. The patagonischen desert is largest continental land mass of the 40 ° parallel and is large cold winters a desert, at those the temperature rarely over 12 ° C and on the average only 3 ° C. the region deeply felt approximately seven months winters and five months of the summer.

The Kalahari desert is a large arid to semiarid sandigen area in the southern Africa extends 900,000 square kilometers (350,000 m ²), the much of Botswana and parts of Namibia and South Africa, as half desert, with enormous surfaces of the excellent Beweidung after good rains. The Kalahari desert is the southern part of Africa, and geography is a part of the desert and a plateau. The Kalahari supports some animals and plants, because most is not it a true desert. There is small quantities of precipitation and temperature in the summer is very high. It receives usually 3 to 7.5 tariff (76-190 mm) moves per year. The surrounding Kalahari basins extends over 2.500.000 square kilometers (970,000 square miles), itself further in Botswana, Namibia and South Africa, and decisively in parts of Angola, Zambia and Simbabwe. The only permanent river, the Okavango, flows in a delta into the northwest, forms sumps, which are rich at game animals.

The Gobi is a large desert in Asia. It covers parts northern and northwest China, and southern Mongolia. The desert Gobi basin by the Altai mountains and the meadows and steppes that Mongolia in the north limits by the Hexi passage and Tibet plateau in the southwest, and of the north Chinese lowland in the southeast. The Gobi consists of several different ecological and geographical regions basedly on the change of the climate and the topography made. This desert is the fifth-largest of the world. The Gobi is at the most remarkable in history as part of the large Mongolian realm, and as location from several important cities along the silk road.

Arab desert or Eastern Desert, c.86, 000 square kilometers (222,740 km ²), E Egypt, by which Nile valley in the west and the Red Sea and the gulf of Suez in the east limit. It extends along the eastern border of most Egypt and goes into the nubian desert in the south. The Arabian desert is thinly populated; most its inhabitant are based around wells and sources. Today most are accessible to the desert can by roads. Since the antiquity Egypt has those Porphyr, granite, used limestone, and sandstone in the desert of mountains as building material found. The oil is produced in the north. The name Arabian desert is also frequently into the desert of the Arab peninsula assigned.

Sahara is the world-wide largest desert. Also over nine million square kilometer (3.5 million square kilometers), it covers the largest part of North Africa and is nearly as large thereby as the United States or for the European continent. The desert extends from the Red Sea, under it parts of the Mediterranean coast, to the edge of the Atlantic ocean. In the south it is defined by the Sahel zone: a belt of semiarid tropical savannah that the northern region south Sahara covers central and western Africa.