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Tengger Desert

The 39th largest desert in the world

36,700km²

The Tengger Desert or Tengri Desert (Mongolian: Тэнгэр элс; pinyin: Ténggélǐ Shāmò; lit. 'Sky Desert') is an arid natural region that covers about 36,700 km2 and is mostly in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in China, with a small portion extending into northwestern Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. The desert is expanding in size.

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