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Gobi Desert

The 2nd largest desert in the world

2,354,460km²

The Gobi Desert is a large, cold desert and grassland region in southern Mongolia and North China. It is the sixth-largest desert in the world. The name of the desert comes from the Mongolian word Gov', (Говь) -dryland-, used to refer to all of the waterless regions in the Mongolian Plateau; the cognate Chinese term gēbì is used to refer to rocky, semi-deserts such as the Gobi itself rather than sandy deserts.

Location: Mongolia, People's Republic of China.

Desert data from Wikidata (CC0).

Other major deserts

  1. Sahara9,200,000 km²
  2. Arabian Desert2,330,000 km²
  3. Libyan Desert1,100,000 km²
  4. Kalahari Desert930,000 km²
  5. Rub' al Khali680,000 km²
  6. Kazakh semi-desert678,871 km²
  7. Central Asian northern desert663,900 km²
  8. Syrian Desert518,000 km²