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World's Major Deserts - TSV

The world's major deserts are representative deserts selected from the desert regions that cover approximately 30% of Earth's land surface, based on their area and distinctive geographical conditions. They include various types such as polar deserts including the Antarctic Desert, tropical deserts represented by the Sahara Desert, cold deserts like the Gobi Desert, and coastal deserts such as the Atacama Desert. These deserts play an important role in understanding Earth's environment from the perspectives of climate, topography, and ecosystems.

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code	slug	name	description	areaKm2	countries	location	type
01	antarctic-desert	Antarctic Desert	The world's largest desert, a polar ice desert.	14200000	["Antarctica"]	Antarctica	Polar Desert
02	arctic-desert	Arctic Desert	The second largest desert in the world, a polar desert.	13900000	["USA (Alaska)","Canada","Greenland (Denmark)","Iceland","Norway","Sweden","Finland","Russia"]	Arctic Circle	Polar Desert
03	sahara-desert	Sahara Desert	The world's largest hot desert.	9200000	["Algeria","Chad","Egypt","Libya","Mali","Mauritania","Morocco","Niger","Sudan","Tunisia","Western Sahara"]	North Africa	Subtropical Desert
04	great-australian-desert	Great Australian Desert	A vast desert region covering the Australian continent.	2700000	["Australia"]	Central and Western Australia	Subtropical Desert
05	arabian-desert	Arabian Desert	The largest desert in Asia, spanning the Arabian Peninsula.	2330000	["Iraq","Jordan","Kuwait","Oman","Qatar","Saudi Arabia","UAE","Yemen"]	Arabian Peninsula	Subtropical Desert
06	gobi-desert	Gobi Desert	Asia's largest cold desert.	1295000	["China","Mongolia"]	China and Mongolia	Cold Winter Desert
07	kalahari-desert	Kalahari Desert	A semi-desert region in Southern Africa.	900000	["Botswana","Namibia","South Africa","Angola"]	Southern Africa	Semi-Desert
08	patagonian-desert	Patagonian Desert	The world's southernmost desert.	673000	["Argentina","Chile"]	Southern South America	Cold Winter Desert
09	syrian-desert	Syrian Desert	A subtropical desert spread across the Middle East.	500000	["Iraq","Jordan","Saudi Arabia","Syria"]	Middle East	Subtropical Desert
10	great-basin-desert	Great Basin Desert	The largest desert in North America.	492000	["United States"]	Western United States	Cold Winter Desert
11	atacama-desert	Atacama Desert	The driest desert in the world.	105000	["Chile","Peru","Bolivia","Argentina"]	Northern Chile	Cool Coastal Desert
12	taklamakan-desert	Taklamakan Desert	The largest desert in China.	270000	["China"]	Xinjiang, China	Cold Winter Desert
13	thar-desert	Thar Desert	The largest desert in the Indian subcontinent.	200000	["India","Pakistan"]	India and Pakistan	Subtropical Desert
14	namib-desert	Namib Desert	A coastal desert in Namibia.	80000	["Angola","Namibia","South Africa"]	Southwest African Coast	Cool Coastal Desert