Map Of The World Deserts. The desert covers an area of 14.2 million square kilometers (5.5 million square miles) Deserts and xeric, or dry, shrublands rarely receive more than 10 inches (25 centimeters) of rainfall annually
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There are both hot and cold deserts, classified into semiarid, arid, and extremely arid or rainless deserts based on the total annual precipitation Although some definitions of the desert also include areas that are too cold to support vegetation, such as frigid deserts, the world desert map shows the distribution of only those areas that are.
As the air continues to move away from the equator most of its moisture has already been dropped, and there is virtually nothing left by the time it reaches the location of the world's deserts The Atacama Desert is the driest non-polar desert in the world and the only hot desert to receive less precipitation than polar deserts Below you can find a list and a map with the main world's deserts.
'Sand deserts around the world' r/MapsWithoutNZ. Although some definitions of the desert also include areas that are too cold to support vegetation, such as frigid deserts, the world desert map shows the distribution of only those areas that are. Polar deserts are characterized by annual precipitation of less than 250 millimeters (or approximately 9.84 inches) and a mean temperature during the warmest month of the year of less than 10°C (50°F)
. It includes the Sahara, Kalahari, Gobi, Namib, Atacama, Patagonian, and others There are both hot and cold deserts, classified into semiarid, arid, and extremely arid or rainless deserts based on the total annual precipitation