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Syrian Desert

The 9th largest desert in the world

518,000km²

The Syrian Desert covers roughly 518,000 km², located in Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, one of the world's major deserts.

Location: Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia.

Desert data from Wikidata (CC0).

Other major deserts

  1. Sahara9,200,000 km²
  2. Gobi Desert2,354,460 km²
  3. Arabian Desert2,330,000 km²
  4. Libyan Desert1,100,000 km²
  5. Kalahari Desert930,000 km²
  6. Rub' al Khali680,000 km²
  7. Kazakh semi-desert678,871 km²
  8. Central Asian northern desert663,900 km²