Top 20 Deserts in World

Top 20 Largest Deserts in World: Land Desert covers one-fifth to one-third of the land surface of the Earth, deserts are landscapes or regions that receive little precipitation, with a relatively high level of evaporation, creating a deficit. Areas designated deserts have an average annual precipitation of less than 16 inches.

There are several types of deserts on Earth, defined based on the temperature of the region. There are both hot and cold deserts, classified into semiarid, arid, and extremely arid or rainless deserts based on the total annual precipitation.

Rank	Name	Type	Location
1	Antarctic Desert	Polar	Antarctica
2	Arctic	Polar	Alaska (United States), Canada, Finland, Greenland (Denmark), Iceland, Norway, Russia and Sweden
3	Sahara	Subtropical	Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Eritrea, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Sudan, Tunisia and Western Sahara
4	Arabian Desert	Subtropical	Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Oman and Yemen
5	Gobi Desert	Cold Winter	Mongolia and China
6	Kalahari Desert	Subtropical	Angola, Botswana, Namibia and South Africa
7	Patagonian Desert	Cold Winter	Argentina and Chile
8	Great Victoria Desert	Subtropical	Australia
9	Syrian Desert	Subtropical	Syria, Jordan and Iraq
10	Great Basin Desert	Cold Winter	United States
11	Chihuahuan Desert	Subtropical	Mexico and United States
12	Great Sandy Desert	Subtropical	Australia
13	Karakum Desert	Cold Winter	Turkmenistan
14	Colorado Plateau	Cold Winter	United States
15	Sonoran Desert	Subtropical	Mexico and United States
16	Kyzyl Kum	Cold Winter	Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan
17	Taklamakan Desert	Cold Winter	China
18	Thar Desert	Subtropical	India and Pakistan
19	Gibson Desert	Subtropical	Australia
20	Simpson Desert	Subtropical	Australia