GK Exam Questions on Top 10 hot deserts in the world

The blog provides TOP 10 LARGEST DESERTS IN THE WORLD | LARGEST DESSERTS IN THE WORLD IN AREA | BIGGEST DESSERTS IN THE WORLD | TOP 10 DESERTS IN THE WORLD.  Candidates preparing for UPSC, SSC, RRB, Bank PO/Clerk or any other government and competitive examinations should be aware about the hot deserts in the world.

Sahara Desert : Sahara Desert with 9,200,000 square kilometers (3,600,000 sq mi) is the largest hot desert in the world and the 3rd largest desert in the world . The word Sahara in Arabic means “desert” .

Arabian Desert : The Arabian Desert with 2,330,000 square kilometers (900,000 sq mi) is the 5th largest desert in the world, and the largest in Asia. The Arabian Desert stretches from Yemen to the Persian Gulf and Oman to Jordan and Iraq. The desert-adapted species Gazelles, oryx, sand cats, and spiny-tailed lizards can be seen in the Arabian Desert

Great Victoria Desert : Great Victoria Desert with 348,750 km2 (134,650 sq mi) is the largest desert in Australia. The Great Victoria Desert contains many small sandhills, grassland plains, areas with a closely packed surface of pebbles (called desert pavement or gibber plains), and salt lakes. Average annual rainfall in Great Victoria Desert ranges from 200 to 250 mm (7.9 to 9.8 in) per year and receives 15–20 thunderstorms yearly which is quite high

Kalahari Desert : The Kalahari Desert with 900,000 square kilometers (570,000 sq mi) is a large semi-arid sandy savannah in Southern Africa covering much of Botswana, and parts of Namibia and South Africa. Kalahari has vast areas covered by red sand without any permanent surface water

Great Basin Desert : The Great Basin Desert with 490,000 (sq mi)is between the Sierra Nevada and the Wasatch Range. The Great Basin Desert is a temperate desert with hot, dry summers and snowy winters.The desert spans through the state of Nevada, western Utah, eastern California, and Idaho. The Great Basin Desert is one of the four biologically defined deserts in North America, in addition to the Mojave, Sonoran, and Chihuahuan Deserts

Thar Desert : The Thar Desert, also known as the Great Indian Desert with 200,000 km2 (376,000 sq mi) is a large, arid region in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent which forms a natural boundary between India and Pakistan (85% of the Thar Desert is in India, and about 15% is in Pakistan). It is the world’s 20th-largest desert, and the world’s 9th-largest hot subtropical desert

Chihuahuan Desert : The Chihuahuan Desert with 501,896 km2 (362,600 sq mi) covers the part of northern Mexico and the southwestern United States

Mojave Desert : The Mojave Desert , named for the Mojave people, with 47,877 sq mi (124,000 km2) is an arid rain-shadow desert and the driest and smallest desert in North America. It spans through southeastern California and southern Nevada and some part in Utah and Arizona. The Mojave Desert has Joshua trees and support 1,750 to 2,000 species of plants

Namib Desert : The Namib Desert is a coastal desert in southern Africa. The name Namib is of Khoekhoegowab origin and means “vast place”. The Namib Desert stretches more than 2,000 kilometres (1,200 mi) along the Atlantic coasts of Angola, Namibia, and South Africa. The Namib Desert contains sand seas near the coast, gravel plains and scattered mountains . Some of the sand dunes are 300 metres (980 ft) high and span 32 kilometres (20 mi) long, are the second-largest in the world after the Badain Jaran Desert dunes in China