ကမ္ဘာ့အကြီးဆုံး ကန္တာရများ

ယခုပို့စ်တွင် ကမ္ဘာ့အကြီးဆုံး ကန္တာရများကို ကြီးစဉ်ငယ်လိုက် စီစဉ်ဖော်ပြထားပါသည်။ စတုရန်း ကီလိုမီတာ ၅၀၀၀၀ နှင့် အထက် (၁၉၃၀၀ စတုရန်းမိုင် အထက်) ကန္တာရများကိုသာ ဖော်ပြထားပါသည်။

Some of Earth's biggest non-polar deserts

Rank	Name	Map	Area (sq km)	Area (sq mi)	Location	Countries
1	Antarctic Desert		14,200,000	5,500,000	Antarctica	N/A
2	Arctic Desert		13,900,000	5,400,000	Northern America Northern Europe Eastern Europe	Canada (Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut), Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway (Svalbard and Jan Mayen), Russia (Siberia), Sweden, and the United States (Alaska)
3	Sahara Desert		9,200,000	3,600,000	Northern Africa Western Africa Middle Africa	Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Eritrea, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Sudan, Tunisia, and Western Sahara
4	Arabian Desert		2,330,000	900,000	Western Asia Northern Africa	Egypt (Sinai Peninsula), Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen
5	Great Australian Desert		1,371,000	529,000	Australasia	Australia
6	Gobi Desert		1,295,000	500,000	Eastern Asia	China and Mongolia
7	Kalahari Desert		900,000	350,000	Southern Africa	Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa
8	Patagonian Desert		673,000	260,000	South America	Argentina and Chile
9	Syrian Desert		500,000	193,100	Western Asia	Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Syria
10	Great Basin Desert		492,000	190,000	Northern America	United States (Nevada, Utah, California, and Idaho)
11	Chihuahuan Desert		450,000	175,000	Central America Northern America	Mexico and the United States
12	Karakum Desert		350,000	140,000	Central Asia	Turkmenistan
–	Great Victoria Desert		348,750	134,650	Australasia	Australia
13	Colorado Plateau		340,000	130,000	Northern America	United States
14	Sonoran Desert		310,000	120,000	Central America Northern America	Mexico and the United States
15	Taklamakan Desert		337,000	130,000	Eastern Asia	China
16	Kyzylkum Desert		300,000	115,000	Central Asia	Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan
–	Great Sandy Desert		267,250	103,190	Australasia	Australia
17	Thar Desert		264,091	101,966	Southern Asia	India and Pakistan
18	Ogaden Desert		200,000	77,000	Eastern Africa	Ethiopia, Somalia, and Somaliland
19	Ustyurt Plateau		200,000	77,000	Central Asia	Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan
–	Tanami Desert		184,500	71,200	Australasia	Australia
–	Simpson Desert		176,500	68,100	Australasia	Australia
–	Gibson Desert		156,000	60,000	Australasia	Australia
20	Margo Desert		150,000	58,000	Southern Asia	Afghanistan
21	Registan Desert		146,000	56,000	Southern Asia	Afghanistan
22	Atacama Desert		140,000	54,000	South America	Chile and Peru
23	Danakil Desert		136,956	52,879	Eastern Africa	Djibouti, Eritrea, and Ethiopia
24	Mojave Desert		124,000	48,000	Northern America	United States
–	Little Sandy Desert		115,000	43,100	Australasia	Australia
25	Chalbi Desert		98,000	38,000	Eastern Africa	Kenya
26	Columbia Basin		83,100	32,100	Northern America	Canada and the United States
27	Namib Desert		81,000	31,000	Middle Africa Southern Africa	Angola, Namibia, and South Africa
–	Strzelecki Desert		80,250	30,980	Australasia	Australia
28	Great Salt Desert		77,000	30,000	Southern Asia	Iran
29	Ferlo Desert		70,000	27,000	Western Africa	Senegal
30	Ladakh		59,146	22,836	Southern Asia	India
31	Lut Desert		52,000	20,000	Southern Asia	Iran

** Modified and rearranged from source : List of deserts by area **