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Atacama Desert – a desert in Chile and Peru La Guajira Desert – a desert in Colombia and Venezuela Monte Desert – in Argentina, a smaller desert above the Patagonian Desert Patagonian Desert – the largest desert in the Americas, located in Argentina Sechura Desert – a desert located south of the Piura Region of Peru Jalapão – a desert park in Tocantins, Brazil
== Polar regions ==
=== Antarctic === Antarctic Desert – the largest desert in the world McMurdo Dry Valleys – a series of extremely dry, snow-free valleys in Victoria Land Meyer Desert – a small desert close to the South Pole
=== Arctic === Arctic Desert – the second largest "desert" in the world, though it consists of frozen ocean, land ice, and tundra, so (like the rest of this section) not a desert climate in any conventional sense North American Arctic – a large tundra in Northern America Greenland – mostly covered by land ice, like Antarctica Russian Arctic – a large tundra in Russia
== Pseudo-deserts == Some geographical features are referred to as "deserts", and this word may even feature in their names, despite not meeting any meteorological definitions for a desert.
Accona Desert – area of Siena, Italy. Barreiro da Faneca – clayey expanse in the Azores. Błędowska Desert – area of sands in Poland. The Burren – limestone karst in County Clare, Ireland. Carcross Desert – sand-dune system in Yukon, Canada. Chara Sands – region of Siberia, Russia. Deliblatska Peščara – sand expanse in Vojvodina, Serbia. Desert of Maine – 40-acre expanse of glacial sand-dunes in Maine, United States. Desert of Wales – a large, upland area of Wales. Dunas dos Ingleses – sand-dune system in Brazil. Dungeness – shingle expanse in South East England, United Kingdom, misleadingly nicknamed "Britain's only desert". Highlands of Iceland – the interior plateau of Iceland; Joaquina Beach – beach in Brazil. Kaʻū Desert – an area of desertification in Hawaii, due to the acid rainfall caused by the nearby Kīlauea volcano. Larzac – limestone karst plateau in the south of the Massif Central, France. Lençóis Maranhenses National Park Lieberose Desert – a desert on a former military training ground in southern Brandenburg, Germany Melnik Desert Canyon – a canyon in Bulgaria. Oltenian Sahara – area of desertification in Oltenia, Romania. The Stone Desert – rock formation in Bulgaria. Red Desert – desert-like region in South Africa. Sand dunes of Lemnos – sand-dune expanse on Lemnos, Greece. Sands of Đurđevac – sand-dune system in Croatia. Sleeping Bear Dunes – lakeshore in Michigan, United States. Słowiński National Park – sand-dune expanse in Poland. Tottori Sand Dunes – sand-dune system in Tottori Prefecture, Japan. Chad Basin National Park – desert park in northern Nigeria.
== See also == Desert Desertification List of deserts by area Polar desert Tundra
== References ==