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1. Aamib_Deser It is believed to be the 's oldest having been arid for at least 55 million years. A diverse set of animals live here, many of which exist nowhere else on the planet. It lies along coastal Namibia, extending into Angola and South .

2 0noran Jesest This desert sprawls across swaths of Arizona, California and Mexico (including Sonora, Baja California, and Baja California The Sur). saguaro cactus and the organ both of pipe cactus, which have federal preserves named after them, are native to this rocky desert.

3. Atacoma Desert It is deeme the driest non- in the world. It's a spanning Peru, Bolivia, Argentina and Chile. It measures 600 miles in length and circumscribes an area over 40,000 square miles.

4. Dese It covers a huge area of Northern Africa and is the third largest desert in the world. and sporadic rainfall have shaped it into a landscape of , valleys, flats and sand seas.

5 Gobi Besert This desert spans two countries, covering parts of northern and northwestern and up into southern . It is also 'home' to the Mongolian death worm, a cryptid described as a red worm, two to five feet in length, that locals claim can spew acid to kill its prey.

Antarctic Desert Desert Desert Gobi Desert Sahara Desert Pineworld 6) in southeri _A desert as 6. Negey Desest cities as well several Bedouin Israel, it hosts of Israer over 55% desert constitutes The has been KIbbutzim. ages, this land area. Throughout the Romans, Empire, the Byzantine by nomads, date back nabited is said to Life in this place and many others. to almost 7,000 years.

7. Mojave Degest This place contains Death Valley, which sits at an elevation of 282 feet below sea level, making it the lowest in America. Joshua point North trees delineate the boundaries of the region. Las Vegas, Nevada, is the largest city.

annual Dtset_ With an Antarctic it is 8. eight inches, of approximately the least hospitable. classified as a desert, perhaps residents. Those has no permanent The stations in the research who do live here are housed that ring the continent.

9 lacK Rock_Deset_ Besides being an arid region of lava beds and alkali flats, this desert serves as the site of an annual event called Burning Man, a music and performance art festival.

10 harDeeat .This desert, covering 77,000 square miles, forms a geomorphic border between India and Pakistan. The desert's formation and age are a matter of debate. Its varied habitats support a wealth of animal taxa, including 23 species of lizards and 25 species of snakes.

Arabian LEUSRub'al Khali, the centerpiece of the Desert Quarter, is characterized also known as the Empty dunes due to the feldspar red-orange sand by sand desert on the NSmallest Desert within the sand. It's the largest as The Atacama Desert, Chile, covers of the desert reach as high planet. Temperatures 133 degrees Fahrenheit. REonly 105,200 km (40,600 miles2 7) Pineworld