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Kubuqi Desert

The Kubuqi Desert (pinyin: Kùbùqí Shāmò), also known via its Mongolian name as the Hobq Desert (Mongolian: ᠾᠣᠪᠬ ᠭᠣᠪᠢ), is a desert within the Ordos Basin in northwestern China, under the administration of the Inner Mongolian Ordos City. Located between the Hetao plains and the Loess Plateau, it is part of the Ordos Desert along with the neighboring Mu Us Desert to its south, and is the seventh-largest desert in China with an area of 18,600 km2 (7; 200 sq mi).

Location: People's Republic of China.

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