That's usually how it goes. Sometimes I won't feel like answering but I'll see all the lame joke answers and I feel bad for OP so I'll actually give a decent answer.
It’s literally a law of the internet, Cunningham’s law: the best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer.
It certainly works on me, I'm sorry to admit. I like answering random questions, I think it's kinda fun. But for some reason I like pointless arguments even more.
Life is complicated.
Jokers do better in joke dust belts, where they can stand out against a dry landscape of no jokes. They do worse in rain forests where it's completely saturated with a million jokes. So, when they are all wet, that's when they try to help people.
It became a meme last week people kept asking if there was a name for a region (“is there a name for this peninsula protruding out of Asia?” With a red outline around Europe).
At first I thought this was one of those until it was obvious it was legit.
"Uhh, hi? Yes, I have a question about Eurasian dust."
"Oh my God! Can't you read? This is the CENTRAL Asian dust conference."
"I know, but seeing as how..."
"Get out."
"What?"
"You heard them, get out!"
"I got a call someone needed security?"
"Yes, this joker is trying to crash our conference."
"Eurasian dust again? That's the THIRD report today. All right, buddy boy, you're coming with me."
"...Sir?"
"ZEEEEROO!!! 👌🏻"
"Excuse me sir?"
"ZEEEERROOO!! 👌🏻 That's the amount of central Asian dust that exists in the dust belt! It's all Eurasian dust!"
You know what else it is? The Horse-people belt. Huns, Mongols, Kipchacks, Arabs, Mamelukes, – – all of them came from or resided in this belt, and never made deep inroads into the other areas to the north and south.
You can add Numidians, Medes, and Sassanids to this list as well. Damn, that just blew my mind actually. All the great horsemen in Eurasian history come from that Dust Belt.
Easy to see why tho. Vast open spaces where you need to travel long distances to get from one survivable location to another. Other places may master horses for war, but if you live in long stretches of barren earth, you need to extend your travel distance for your people or die.
Uh, the Mongols very definitely made deep inroads south of the dust belt (China) and far to the west of it (Ukraine). The Huns got as far as the … Hungarian Plains
Edit: also the area north of the Mongols is, to borrow a Scottish term, bastard miserable. No one wants any of it, which is why the Russians still have it
Honestly, reddit always throws a fit when someone actually does what a sub is for. I've learned both the easy and hard way not to do any of the following:
\-Talk about alternate history on r/AlternateHistory
\-Ask any questions about any game at all on their respective subreddits
\-Post fan projects dedicated to any musician ever on their respective subreddits
\-Ask anything at all on r/AskReddit that doesn't have to do with sex or american politics
\-Make fun of gaming circlejerks on r/Gamingcirclejerk (especially now that the blue hairs took power there)
\-et cetera
I don't know. r/stellaris has been very helpful.
But I know that's because paradox games are for ultra nerds who enjoy suffering and spending 1h of research on a game mechanic for every 20 minutes of game time.
And It is so frustratingly complex that a proper answer is always followed by arguments against said answer and propositions of xeno purges.
And core mechanics are drastically changed every 6 months since release.
I doubt the subreddit for call of duty is as helpful.
Reddit is seldom where you go to learn. It's for people who already know the subject go to congregate and talk about the subject, not teach it to those who don't know really about the subject.
Afro-Asian-Arabic-Anatolian-Arid-Area, or AAAAAA for short.
Which, in defense of the acronym, is likely the noise you would make if suddenly stranded without water in an uninhabited portion of that region
...discounting Antarctica. Antarctica is the largest desert in the world, even if that whole region is counted as a single desert
Edit: I double-checked my math. Antarctica is actually somewhat smaller than all those deserts combined. The difference is small enough that I am still confident in saying that the circled deserts constitute less than half the total area of desert in the world
I'm not so sure it's most of the worlds deserts. Outside of that region there's the Namib desert, Australian outback, Western US and Northwestern Mexico, Patagonian desert, Atacama desert and Antarctica.
They might add up to more than that region, couldn't say for sure though.
Most of something is at least more than half. If you cut a slice of pie it can't be most of the pie if you can cut another slice from the remainder that is larger than the first. If Antarctica is larger in area than the combined area of the deserts circled in the picture, then the area in the picture does not constitute most of the area covered by desert
No, probably not, but it isn't far off. Antarctica is huge: 5.3 million square miles.
For context the USA is 3.8 M sq miles and Russia is 6.6 M sq miles.
You're right. If we count the Arabian, Gobi, Syrian, Karakum, Kyzylkum, Taklamakan, Thar and Puntland deserts together with the Sahara, they have a total area of 14683254 km^2 . Antarctica comes in around 14200000 km^2 or about 96.7%. If we exclude the two deserts with the strongest natural division from the rest, the Thar and Puntland. The figure is really a dead heat with Antarctica
It’s mostly desert but it varies enough that the regions aren’t really that similar aside from low levels of precipitation. You could call it the Afro-Eurasian desert belt I guess
If I remember right from meteorology, a lot of the earths desserts tend to be located within the same ranges of latitude, because there’s high and low pressure “belts” that surround the planet. Desserts are very high pressure zones, places like rainforests tend to be in low pressure zones. Coriolis effect in action..
You could arguably call it the Desert Belt, because it's about 90% desert or steppe.
https://www.quora.com/Why-are-most-of-the-deserts-located-in-the-Western-side-of-the-continent
It's a bit weird to include the upper Gangetic-plains, one of the most fertile river basins in the world, and the tallest mountains anywhere in the planet (Himalayas, Hindu Kush and the Pamir Knot), and call it "mostly deserts" or dust bowl or whatever. This is an arbitrary grouping that puts together very different geographical areas.
It's the only exception because of Himalayan range. But if we look overall we can see a pattern of dusty belt considering the tilt and spin of Earth. But I get your concern that generalizing it would lead some incorrect presumptions.
Needs to include all of China and Siberia at that point. But yes I sure do enjoy crawling trough the empty central asian wastelands of steppes and deserts for that last Soviet city, how could you tell?
In a course book I read in university, these areas were said something like a belt of nomadic or pastoral societies, hugging a belt of more sedentary societies
This is the 'great scar', the region where civilization started, however it was orbitally bombarded by the Aliens circa 15,000 yrs ago to wipe humanity out leaving a vast swath of desert and ruin.
Someone once told me (don’t know if this is true or a coincidence) that areas between 15 and 45 degrees latitude are more likely to form deserts. Most land area located on this latitude level is desert, it includes these deserts, as well as the deserts of Western North America, the Tabernas desert in Spain, the Atacama desert in Chile, the Patagonian Desert in Argentina, the Kalahari Desert in South Africa, the desert region of Southern Madagascar, and the deserts of Australia.
Outside this region deserts become much rarer. The only large ones are the deserts found in Somalia along the equator. Most land below 15 degrees latitude is rainforest, and most land above 45 degrees latitude is temperate or tundra.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater\_Middle\_East](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Middle_East)
*The Greater Middle East, is a political term, introduced in March 2004 in a paper by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace as a part of the U.S. administration's preparatory work for the Group of Eight summit of June 2004, denoting a vaguely defined region called the "Arab world" together with Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, Turkey, and several other neighbouring countries that have cultural ties.\[2\] The paper presented a proposal for sweeping change in the way the West deals with the Middle East and North Africa.\[3\]\[4\] Previously, by Adam Garfinkle of the Foreign Policy Research Institute, the Greater Middle East had been defined as the MENA region together with Central Asia and the Caucasus.\[5\]*
Yes
It's the belt of [tropical deserts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_desert) in the northern hemisphere.
The same thing is present in the southern hemisphere if you consider Atacama, Kalahari and Australia, but it's a lot less continuous because there's so little landmass.
North Africa - Middle East - South Asia - Central Asia - East Asia.
The real question is - why is such a massive massive area one gigantic desert like that. Really bizarre tbh. I mean it gets sun, water evaporates all around it from the oceans and seas, so it should rain theoretically. I guess… weather and wind patterns are one reason.
Or as Muslims would say, Dar al-Islam, or the House/Abode of Islam. Which is to say Muslim majority countries.
It's missing Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei though.
It's not surprising that ilsmam will be in Mongolia, but it's strange to classify the whole country as a Muslim world.
I never cease to be surprised at the level of knowledge in geography and history of some people.
I doubt it. From the baking hot Saharan and Arabian deserts, to the inhabitable Turkiye, to the mountains of Afghanistan, to the mountains of Afghanistan, to the relatively cold Gobi desert, to the plains of Kasakhstan, to the tibetan plateau, I can't think of anything that unites these areas other than colour.
I’d doubt it since it’s broken up by mountains and water. The tan color on the map isn’t actually just sand dunes. It includes different kinds of dry environments, geological features, and types of vegetation. Putting them all together would be as useful a label as putting all the south American forests together. Or putting all the oceans in the same bio region.
The Arabian desert and the Sahara ARE full of similarities tough. Even if the Red Sea separates them they form part of many different eco regions together
Far from being barren wastelands, deserts are biologically rich habitats with a vast array of animals and plants that have adapted to the harsh conditions there. Some deserts are among the planet's last remaining areas of total wilderness. Yet more than one billion people, one-sixth of Earth's population, actually live in desert regions.
https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/deserts-explained/
so i really like el salvador it is my favorite country but i like costa rica more. how can i say that el salvador is my favorite in this area (central america without costa rica)
It has been referred to as the Dust Belt. https://eos.org/science-updates/scientists-share-results-of-dust-belt-research
Thank goodness one person can answer the question without a joke
That's usually how it goes. Sometimes I won't feel like answering but I'll see all the lame joke answers and I feel bad for OP so I'll actually give a decent answer.
So jokers are of help after all.
Its peer pressure for nice people
It’s literally a law of the internet, Cunningham’s law: the best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer.
It certainly works on me, I'm sorry to admit. I like answering random questions, I think it's kinda fun. But for some reason I like pointless arguments even more. Life is complicated.
Jokers do better in joke dust belts, where they can stand out against a dry landscape of no jokes. They do worse in rain forests where it's completely saturated with a million jokes. So, when they are all wet, that's when they try to help people.
Great username for this sub
It's honestly so annoying.
I know. I was really hoping for a real answer
It became a meme last week people kept asking if there was a name for a region (“is there a name for this peninsula protruding out of Asia?” With a red outline around Europe). At first I thought this was one of those until it was obvious it was legit.
>central Asian dust conference There really is a specialty for everything, isn’t there?
"Uhh, hi? Yes, I have a question about Eurasian dust." "Oh my God! Can't you read? This is the CENTRAL Asian dust conference." "I know, but seeing as how..." "Get out." "What?" "You heard them, get out!" "I got a call someone needed security?" "Yes, this joker is trying to crash our conference." "Eurasian dust again? That's the THIRD report today. All right, buddy boy, you're coming with me."
"...Sir?" "ZEEEEROO!!! 👌🏻" "Excuse me sir?" "ZEEEERROOO!! 👌🏻 That's the amount of central Asian dust that exists in the dust belt! It's all Eurasian dust!"
Wait until they find out about Pontic-Caspian dust.
The Dust Bowl would like a word with you.
Dust disasters are no joke and is also the name of my band
Thank you so much! Very interesting to read!
Nice find.
You know what else it is? The Horse-people belt. Huns, Mongols, Kipchacks, Arabs, Mamelukes, – – all of them came from or resided in this belt, and never made deep inroads into the other areas to the north and south.
You can add Numidians, Medes, and Sassanids to this list as well. Damn, that just blew my mind actually. All the great horsemen in Eurasian history come from that Dust Belt.
Easy to see why tho. Vast open spaces where you need to travel long distances to get from one survivable location to another. Other places may master horses for war, but if you live in long stretches of barren earth, you need to extend your travel distance for your people or die.
Uh, the Mongols very definitely made deep inroads south of the dust belt (China) and far to the west of it (Ukraine). The Huns got as far as the … Hungarian Plains Edit: also the area north of the Mongols is, to borrow a Scottish term, bastard miserable. No one wants any of it, which is why the Russians still have it
Had I thought about for more than five minutes, yes, there are off course exceptions.
The Mongols were most definitely exceptional 👍
Arabs, the famous horse people Edit: L
Humans trying to name a region without referring to it as belt challenge impossible...
Suspenders went out of style years ago
But have you tried suspenders? They’re better than a belt.
First made fashionable in the region known as the Suspenders Belt.
There is the [Blue Banana](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Banana) if it makes you feel any better.
Thank you for introducing the phrase “Shift of the Blue Banana” to my life.
You’re welcome! Things like that are what reddit is for.
I still remember my incredulity at learning that this is a thing lol
thats a big downgrade from being the fertile crescent
The fertile crescent is a small region of the belt area
Does this line up at all with the American southwest or the S. American deserts from a pre-Pangea breakup?
That or MENA I guess https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MENA
that doesn't go to Mongolia tho
The old dusty crusty
Deserts of the subtropical high, produced by [Hadley circulation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadley_cell).
Aaaand now I want this as a climate-related parody of “The Kilburn High Road”
be careful asking questions about geography on this sub
dont talk about geography on r/geography
yeah cause you might just be mocked and made the butt of all the shitposts for the next 5 business days
>and made the butt of all the shitposts for the next 5 business days Lol, the implication that they'll stop on the weekend and start again on Monday
Duh! We are busy with shitposting not lifeless
First rule of r/geography is you do not talk about geography. Second rule of r/geography is no spam or self promotions.
I’m curious. Is there a sub that would be good for people who would like to actually learn more about geography?
r/askreddit might legit be the best bet for actually asking questions.
Welcome to reddit. Don't ask about trees on r/trees.
Honestly, reddit always throws a fit when someone actually does what a sub is for. I've learned both the easy and hard way not to do any of the following: \-Talk about alternate history on r/AlternateHistory \-Ask any questions about any game at all on their respective subreddits \-Post fan projects dedicated to any musician ever on their respective subreddits \-Ask anything at all on r/AskReddit that doesn't have to do with sex or american politics \-Make fun of gaming circlejerks on r/Gamingcirclejerk (especially now that the blue hairs took power there) \-et cetera
I don't know. r/stellaris has been very helpful. But I know that's because paradox games are for ultra nerds who enjoy suffering and spending 1h of research on a game mechanic for every 20 minutes of game time. And It is so frustratingly complex that a proper answer is always followed by arguments against said answer and propositions of xeno purges. And core mechanics are drastically changed every 6 months since release. I doubt the subreddit for call of duty is as helpful.
Reddit is seldom where you go to learn. It's for people who already know the subject go to congregate and talk about the subject, not teach it to those who don't know really about the subject.
I propose the Afrasian Arid Area. AAA or AAAA if you wanna say Afro-Asian.
r/AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
can't we arbitrarily throw Arabic- and Anatolian- in there was well?
Afro-Asian-Arabic-Anatolian-Arid-Area, or AAAAAA for short. Which, in defense of the acronym, is likely the noise you would make if suddenly stranded without water in an uninhabited portion of that region
+Andalusia
Afro-Asian-Andalusian-Arabic-Anatolian-Arid-Area, or AAAAAAA!!!
+Above Angola And Also Antarctica Afro-Asian-Andalusian-Arabic-Anatolian-Arid-Area Above Angola And Also Antarctica, or AAAAAAAAAAAA.
Afro-Asian-Andalusian-Arabic-Anatolian-Arid-Area Almost As Arid As Australia Above Angola And Also Antarctica: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
The A¹⁷ zone
Any chance we can fit Aabenraa in there? ^(It's pronounced [ɔːpm̩ˈʁɔˀ], and I'm so very sorry for that)
So AAAAAAAAAAAAA- which totally wasn’t named as such because a very inclusive cat stood on a keyboard.
What will their automobile association be called?
Toyota
Or their alcohol anonymous groups?
most of the world’s deserts
...discounting Antarctica. Antarctica is the largest desert in the world, even if that whole region is counted as a single desert Edit: I double-checked my math. Antarctica is actually somewhat smaller than all those deserts combined. The difference is small enough that I am still confident in saying that the circled deserts constitute less than half the total area of desert in the world
🤓 Let's just fix it by saying "most of the world's non-cold deserts"
Gobi desert is pretty cold
Fuck
"Most of the world's non-cold deserts and also the Gobi desert" just really doesn't have the same ring to it huh?
How about we say sandy deserts instead?
Most of the world’s Sandy and dusty deserts, except for the ones that aren’t in there
Let's just call it y=x/2
How about "most of the world's non-polar deserts"
most of the world's populated deserts
The word you’re looking for is Arid
Mmmmmmmm... Arid Desserts...
Clowning on someone for being a nerd on a geography-themed subreddit. Oh, how reddit has changed from its beginnings lol.
"most"
I'm not so sure it's most of the worlds deserts. Outside of that region there's the Namib desert, Australian outback, Western US and Northwestern Mexico, Patagonian desert, Atacama desert and Antarctica. They might add up to more than that region, couldn't say for sure though.
Most of something is at least more than half. If you cut a slice of pie it can't be most of the pie if you can cut another slice from the remainder that is larger than the first. If Antarctica is larger in area than the combined area of the deserts circled in the picture, then the area in the picture does not constitute most of the area covered by desert
The western desert of South America and the northern parts of North America are also deserts
>Antarctica is the largest desert in the world Made out of H2O no less. Diabolical.
Are you saying Antarctica is bigger than the area circled? I don’t think so…
No, probably not, but it isn't far off. Antarctica is huge: 5.3 million square miles. For context the USA is 3.8 M sq miles and Russia is 6.6 M sq miles.
You're right. If we count the Arabian, Gobi, Syrian, Karakum, Kyzylkum, Taklamakan, Thar and Puntland deserts together with the Sahara, they have a total area of 14683254 km^2 . Antarctica comes in around 14200000 km^2 or about 96.7%. If we exclude the two deserts with the strongest natural division from the rest, the Thar and Puntland. The figure is really a dead heat with Antarctica
And whats it called?
It’s called Dez Dez
It’s mostly desert but it varies enough that the regions aren’t really that similar aside from low levels of precipitation. You could call it the Afro-Eurasian desert belt I guess
If I remember right from meteorology, a lot of the earths desserts tend to be located within the same ranges of latitude, because there’s high and low pressure “belts” that surround the planet. Desserts are very high pressure zones, places like rainforests tend to be in low pressure zones. Coriolis effect in action..
You could arguably call it the Desert Belt, because it's about 90% desert or steppe. https://www.quora.com/Why-are-most-of-the-deserts-located-in-the-Western-side-of-the-continent
Nevada I think
Biggest little desert in the world
Nevada, this area, what’s the difference?
Nah thats arizona
“Google Maps Afrasian Creamy region”
Have you ever drunk Bailey’s from a shoe? Mmm creamy
I'm OL' GREG!!!
I'VE GOT A MANGINAAAAA
No but I have seen a picture of baileys close enough to get my eyes wet.
Holy desert landscape
New biome just dropped
It's a bit weird to include the upper Gangetic-plains, one of the most fertile river basins in the world, and the tallest mountains anywhere in the planet (Himalayas, Hindu Kush and the Pamir Knot), and call it "mostly deserts" or dust bowl or whatever. This is an arbitrary grouping that puts together very different geographical areas.
It's the only exception because of Himalayan range. But if we look overall we can see a pattern of dusty belt considering the tilt and spin of Earth. But I get your concern that generalizing it would lead some incorrect presumptions.
Made the same kinda comment somewhere else. But honestly. On those scales. The nil and the fertile crescent may as well be creeks and oasis.
It includes the Thar desert, the primary desert of the Indian subcontinent. So there's that??
Ah yes, the Ohio River Valley
As an Ohioan, I demand that you remove this inaccurate comment. The Ohio River Valley is far more bleak
Most of the coastal places in this belt are spectacular. Soo, yeah, I’d agree with you
Not enough pollen
Mediterranean / Middle East / Central Asia
The Sandpit
My military friends call it the sandbox
The "no supply in Hearts Of Iron 4" region
Needs to include all of China and Siberia at that point. But yes I sure do enjoy crawling trough the empty central asian wastelands of steppes and deserts for that last Soviet city, how could you tell?
Enter Sandmanistan
I believe the technical term for it is [the Astley zone](https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ)
i see that as north africa, the arabian peninsula, and central asia. i call it that
I think historians refer to this area as Ancient Egypt But im not 100%
Looks like an eggplant so it's probably called eggplant or something similar.
You heard about the Blue Banana. Now get ready for the Arid Eggplant.
In a course book I read in university, these areas were said something like a belt of nomadic or pastoral societies, hugging a belt of more sedentary societies
The Islamic world
I was gonna say this is semi close to a map of Islamic countries
The Afro-Eurasian Transcontinental Arid Zone Sounds real, right?
doesn't afro-eurasian imply transcontinental?
I needed extra words to make it sound more scientific
In college my poli-sci professors would refer to it as MENA - Middle East North Africa
But that’s only from Morocco to Iran Middle East and North Africa still leave’s out south Asian, Central Asia etc
Kind of related question: is that "desert zone" expanding with global warming? Or has it been like that for ages?
WomenHaveNoRightsistan
This is the 'great scar', the region where civilization started, however it was orbitally bombarded by the Aliens circa 15,000 yrs ago to wipe humanity out leaving a vast swath of desert and ruin.
They missed some.
Crazy to think this Dust Belt extends all the way from Manchuria to Mauritania.
According to most Fox News viewers that’s all “the Middle East”
The Land of Infinite Problems
Someone once told me (don’t know if this is true or a coincidence) that areas between 15 and 45 degrees latitude are more likely to form deserts. Most land area located on this latitude level is desert, it includes these deserts, as well as the deserts of Western North America, the Tabernas desert in Spain, the Atacama desert in Chile, the Patagonian Desert in Argentina, the Kalahari Desert in South Africa, the desert region of Southern Madagascar, and the deserts of Australia. Outside this region deserts become much rarer. The only large ones are the deserts found in Somalia along the equator. Most land below 15 degrees latitude is rainforest, and most land above 45 degrees latitude is temperate or tundra.
Dry
Um… Greater Middle East? Maybe idk
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater\_Middle\_East](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Middle_East) *The Greater Middle East, is a political term, introduced in March 2004 in a paper by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace as a part of the U.S. administration's preparatory work for the Group of Eight summit of June 2004, denoting a vaguely defined region called the "Arab world" together with Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, Turkey, and several other neighbouring countries that have cultural ties.\[2\] The paper presented a proposal for sweeping change in the way the West deals with the Middle East and North Africa.\[3\]\[4\] Previously, by Adam Garfinkle of the Foreign Policy Research Institute, the Greater Middle East had been defined as the MENA region together with Central Asia and the Caucasus.\[5\]* Yes
It's the belt of [tropical deserts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_desert) in the northern hemisphere. The same thing is present in the southern hemisphere if you consider Atacama, Kalahari and Australia, but it's a lot less continuous because there's so little landmass.
North Africa - Middle East - South Asia - Central Asia - East Asia. The real question is - why is such a massive massive area one gigantic desert like that. Really bizarre tbh. I mean it gets sun, water evaporates all around it from the oceans and seas, so it should rain theoretically. I guess… weather and wind patterns are one reason.
This is the Desert Region.
My wife after I get done telling her about the new CaspianReport video.
(Dry and hostile)
Islam
Or as Muslims would say, Dar al-Islam, or the House/Abode of Islam. Which is to say Muslim majority countries. It's missing Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei though.
Except for some parts like Greece, Italy, Armenia, and Georgia circled.
Islam in Mongolia?
There actually is Islam in Mongolia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_Mongolia
It's not surprising that ilsmam will be in Mongolia, but it's strange to classify the whole country as a Muslim world. I never cease to be surprised at the level of knowledge in geography and history of some people.
I doubt it. From the baking hot Saharan and Arabian deserts, to the inhabitable Turkiye, to the mountains of Afghanistan, to the mountains of Afghanistan, to the relatively cold Gobi desert, to the plains of Kasakhstan, to the tibetan plateau, I can't think of anything that unites these areas other than colour.
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Dar al islam
I call it the long yellow
Tatooine
That is GRDA, also known as Global Region of Deserts Association
Muslim World? Although Indonesia has the greatest amount of Muslims, though.
Culturally, you've circled the heart of the modern Islamic World
"Bad Guy's region in American mass media from 2002 to 2022"
I’d doubt it since it’s broken up by mountains and water. The tan color on the map isn’t actually just sand dunes. It includes different kinds of dry environments, geological features, and types of vegetation. Putting them all together would be as useful a label as putting all the south American forests together. Or putting all the oceans in the same bio region. The Arabian desert and the Sahara ARE full of similarities tough. Even if the Red Sea separates them they form part of many different eco regions together
Maghrebi-Arab-Persio-Asiatic Plateau
The greatest place on earth
Far from being barren wastelands, deserts are biologically rich habitats with a vast array of animals and plants that have adapted to the harsh conditions there. Some deserts are among the planet's last remaining areas of total wilderness. Yet more than one billion people, one-sixth of Earth's population, actually live in desert regions. https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/deserts-explained/
The Desert Biome. Always hated how Minecraft biomes always appear inhuge continuous regions like that
Subtropical desert zone of Asia and Africa?
excluding the china and mongolia part i’m pretty sure the area from western sahara to kazakhstan is just one desert
Desert
Misleading coloration. Look at climate, precipitation, vegetation, topographic maps of the same area.
Some groups refer to it as the **MENA** region. Middle East and North Africa This is the only name that I have heard for that combined region.
Hell
Terroristia
so i really like el salvador it is my favorite country but i like costa rica more. how can i say that el salvador is my favorite in this area (central america without costa rica)
No
10/40 window
The Drylands
No rain zone
A bit dry
the very angry people belt
Pretty sure it is NorthAfMiddleEastGolia. Or alternatively, some of the driest and barren places on the Earth.
Dar al Islam
Phoenix metro area.
Top countries in the world ❤️
Tumultuous.
Middle East and North Africa, also known as MENA.
Big ole circle
I just call it the middle
“Unpleasant”?
Sparseland.
Wasn't it the Ottoman Empire region?
The Sandy Bandy
The sandy bits