The earth we live on is composed of land and sea, of which 70% is sea and 30% is land. But in the only land, the area of desert is very large. Let's take an inventory of the top ten deserts in the world!
1. Sahara Desert: the Sahara Desert crosses the northern part of the African continent. It is 5600 kilometers long from east to west and 1600 kilometers wide from north to south. It covers a total area of about 9065000 square kilometers, accounting for about 32% of the total area of Africa. It is the most sunny desert in the world.
2. Arabian desert: the Arabian desert is located in the eastern edge of the Sahara desert in North Africa. Located in the east of Egypt, between the Nile Valley, Suez Canal and red sea, it is also known as the eastern desert.
3. Libyan Desert: located in the northeast of the Sahara desert. Including central and Western Egypt and eastern Libya. The Libyan desert is a plateau inclined from south to north, with an altitude of 350 ~ 500m in the south, 100 ~ 250m in the middle and North, and the highest terrain in the southwest, with an altitude of 1800m.
4. Australian desert: it is the largest desert in Australia and the fourth largest desert in the world. It is composed of big sand desert, Victoria desert, Gibson desert and Simpson Desert. It covers an area of about 1.55 million square kilometers.
5. Gobi Desert: the Gobi desert, with an area of 1.3 million square kilometers, is located between China and Mongolia. It is the northernmost desert in the world.
6. Patagonia desert: the largest desert in America, with a total area of about 670000 square kilometers. Its formation is affected by the Falkland cold current. It has a cold and dry climate and very little precipitation, so it forms the geographical form of desert, Moreover, in this desert, scientists have also found the largest carnivorous dinosaur fossil on earth and the fossil of the sixth unknown species, so its past is very mysterious.
7. Rubkhari desert: About 630000 square kilometers, accounting for 1 / 4 of the Arabian Peninsula and one of the largest deserts in the world
8. Kalahari Desert: it belongs to a desert in South Central Africa. It is the third largest desert in Africa, with a total area of 930000 square kilometers. It belongs to a depression basin on the African platform. Due to the unique geographical location of the desert, it is very desolate. Basically, at a glance, it is all vast sand.
9. Dasha desert: located in Western Australia, it covers an area of 410000 square kilometers. Because of the prevailing wind, sand ridges and sand dunes are all over the desert. The sand accumulated by the wind can be as long as tens of miles, as high as 20 to 30 meters. It is very spectacular and attracts many tourists.
10. Taklimakan Desert: although it is at the end of the top ten deserts in the world, it is very famous. It is not only the largest desert in China, but also the second largest mobile desert in the world, with a total area of 330000 square kilometers. The temperature difference between day and night is particularly large, with a gap of about 40 degrees.