Statistics for 15 largest deserts in the world

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Area, km2	Tip	Answer	% Correct
9,100,000	Its name means «deserts» in Arabic	Sahara	100%
1,300,000	Walking across this desert you can find some yurts of modern day nomads	Gobi	75%
2,330,000	This desert is formed by a bunch of smaller deserts like Rub' al Khali, An Nafud and others	Arabian	68%
900,000	It's the large storage of diamonds	Kalahari	57%
647,000	It is the largest desert of Australia, which covers around 5% of total Australia area	Great Victoria	32%
673,000	This region is inhabited by indigenous Mapuche people	Patagonian	29%
520,000	Two mighty rivers, that gave the life to ancient Babylonians, cross this desert	Syrian	29%
310,000	The golden nugget of this desert is giant saguaro cactus	Sonoran	25%
450,000	This Middlewestern desert has the casual look of Wild West landscape	Chihuahuan	21%
337,000	Grand Canyon is located in this deserty place	Colorado Plateau	14%
492,000	It's the alpine desert, where it usually snows in winter	Great Basin	14%
300,000	Baikonur — the first comsomdrome built by human, is located near this desert	Kyzylkum	11%
350,000	«The Gates to Hell» — the crater, from what burning gas is coming, located in this desert	Karakum	7%
270,000	This desert looks like huge sandy stain on Asia map	Taklamakan	7%
400,000	The phenomenon of this desert is high rain rate, especially in the northern regions	Great Sandy	4%