word | | Climate |
| desert | Namibia | desert; hot, dry; rainfall sparse and erratic |
| desert | Niger | desert; mostly hot, dry, dusty; tropical in extreme south |
| desert | Oman | dry desert; hot, humid along coast; hot, dry interior; strong southwest summer monsoon (May to September) in far south |
| desert | Pakistan | mostly hot, dry desert; temperate in northwest; arctic in north |
| desert | Peru | varies from tropical in east to dry desert in west; temperate to frigid in Andes |
| desert | Saudi Arabia | harsh, dry desert with great temperature extremes |
| desert | Somalia | principally desert; northeast monsoon (December to February), moderate temperatures in north and hot in south; southwest monsoon (May to October), torrid in the north and hot in the south, irregular rainfall, hot ... |
| desert | Sudan | hot and dry; arid desert; rainy season varies by region (April to November) |
| desert | Syria | mostly desert; hot, dry, sunny summers (June to August) and mild, rainy winters (December to February) along coast; cold weather with snow or sleet periodically in Damascus |
| desert | Tunisia | temperate in north with mild, rainy winters and hot, dry summers; desert in south |
| desert | Turkmenistan | subtropical desert |
| desert | United Arab Emirates | desert; cooler in eastern mountains |
| desert | Uzbekistan | mostly midlatitude desert, long, hot summers, mild winters; semiarid grassland in east |
| desert | Western Sahara | hot, dry desert; rain is rare; cold offshore air currents produce fog and heavy dew |
| desert | Yemen | mostly desert; hot and humid along west coast; temperate in western mountains affected by seasonal monsoon; extraordinarily hot, dry, harsh desert in east |
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