Desertus campus est ubi parum praecipitatio occurrit et consequenter condiciones vivae biomes et oecosystematis unicas efficiunt. Defectus vegetationis nudam superficiem terrae denudationis exponit. Circa tertiam superficiem Terre terre est aridum vel semi-aridum. Haec includit multa polaris regiones, ubi paululum praecipitatio occurrit, et quae interdum solitudines polares vel "frigidas solitudines" dicuntur. Merita indicari possunt per quantitatem praecipitationis, quae cadit, temperie quae praevalet, causis desertificationis vel locorum locorum.
Hic sunt supremae XX maximae solitudines in mundo.
Rank | desert | Type | Area |
1. | Solitudo Antarctica | Suspendisse glacies et tesca arctica | 14,200,000 km2 (5,482,651 sq mi). |
2. | Arctic Desert | Suspendisse glacies et tesca arctica | 13,900,000 km2 (5,366,820 sq mi). |
3. | Sahara desertum | Planta | 9,200,000 km2 (3,552,140 sq mi). |
4. | Magna Australian | Planta | 2,700,000 km2 (1,042,476 sq mi). |
5. | deserta Arabiae | Planta | 2,330,000 km2 (899,618 sq mi). |
6. | Thin | frigus hiems | 1,295,000 km2 (500,002 sq mi). |
7. | kalahari Solitudo | Planta | 900,000 km2 (347,492 sq mi). |
8. | Patagonian Desert | frigus hiems | 673,000 km2 (259,847 sq mi). |
9. | Syriaca Deserta | Planta | 500,000 km2 (193,051 sq mi). |
10. | Magna Rasin | frigus hiems | 492,098 km2 (190,000 sq mi). |
11. | Chihuahuan Desert | Planta | 453,248 km2 (175,000 sq mi). |
12. | Karakum Desert | frigus hiems | 350,000 km2 (135,136 sq mi). |
13. | Colorado Plateau | frigus hiems | 337,000 km2 (130,116 sq mi). |
14. | Sonoran Desert | Planta | 310,000 km2 (119,692 sq mi). |
15. | Kyzylkum Desert | frigus hiems | 300,000 km2 (115,831 sq mi). |
16. | Taklamakan deserto Iudaeae | frigus hiems | 270,000 km2 (104,248 sq mi). |
17. | Ogaden Desert | Planta | 256,000 km2 (98,842 sq mi). |
18. | thar deserto Iudaeae | Planta | km 238,2542 (91,990 sq mi). |
19. | Puntland Desert | Planta | 200,000 km2 (77,220 sq mi). |
20. | Ustyurt Plateau | sobrii sint | 200,000 km2 (77,220 sq mi). |