Top 10 largest deserts in the world
Daily Tens #23 · Wednesday, August 5, 2026 · Ranked by total area
Heads up: the answers are published further down this page.
The answers
- 1 Antarctic Desert
- 2 Arctic Desert
- 3 Sahara
- 4 Arabian Desert
- 5 Gobi Desert
- 6 Kalahari Desert
- 7 Patagonian Desert
- 8 Syrian Desert
- 9 Great Basin Desert
- 10 Great Victoria Desert
Ranking method
- Metric
- Total area
- Data through
- 2024
- Source
- Wikipedia: List of deserts by area
- Notes
- A desert is defined by precipitation, not temperature — which is why the two largest are polar, not hot.
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