word | | Terrain |
| desert | Niger | predominately desert plains and sand dunes; flat to rolling plains in south; hills in north |
| desert | Oman | central desert plain, rugged mountains in north and south |
| desert | Qatar | mostly flat and barren desert covered with loose sand and gravel |
| desert | Saudi Arabia | mostly uninhabited, sandy desert |
| desert | Sudan | generally flat, featureless plain; desert dominates the north |
| desert | Syria | primarily semiarid and desert plateau; narrow coastal plain; mountains in west |
| desert | Turkmenistan | flat-to-rolling sandy desert with dunes rising to mountains in the south; low mountains along border with Iran; borders Caspian Sea in west |
| desert | United Arab Emirates | flat, barren coastal plain merging into rolling sand dunes of vast desert wasteland; mountains in east |
| desert | Uzbekistan | mostly flat-to-rolling sandy desert with dunes; broad, flat intensely irrigated river valleys along course of Amu Darya, Syr Darya (Sirdaryo), and Zarafshon; Fergana Valley in east surrounded by mountainous Tajikistan ... |
| desert | Western Sahara | mostly low, flat desert with large areas of rocky or sandy surfaces rising to small mountains in south and northeast |
| desert | Yemen | narrow coastal plain backed by flat-topped hills and rugged mountains; dissected upland desert plains in center slope into the desert interior of the Arabian Peninsula |
| deserts | Australia | mostly low plateau with deserts; fertile plain in southeast |
| deserts | China | mostly mountains, high plateaus, deserts in west; plains, deltas, and hills in east |
| deserts | India | upland plain (Deccan Plateau) in south, flat to rolling plain along the Ganges, deserts in west, Himalayas in north |
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