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Sigma KEE - Desert
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desert
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Desert is a subclass of LandAreas that are arid regions having sparse or no vegetation.
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An area which is predominantly solid ground, e.g. a Nation, a mountain, a desert, etc. Note that a LandArea may contain some relatively small WaterAreas. For example, Australia is a LandArea even though it contains various rivers and lakes.
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| Instances | Mojave Desert | The MojaveDesert is a desert in the rain shadow of the southern Sierra Nevada mountains and TransverseRanges in the Southwestern United States. Named after the indigenous Mohave people, it is located primarily in southeastern California and southwestern Nevada, with small portions extending into Arizona and Utah.[Wikipedia] |
| | Sahara Desert | SaharaDesert spans across North Africa. With an area of 9,200,000 square kilometres (3,600,000 sq mi). It stretches from the Red Sea in the east and the Mediterranean in the north to the Atlantic Ocean in the west, where the landscape gradually changes from desert to coastal plains. To the south it is bounded by the Sahel, a belt of semi-arid tropical savanna around the Niger River valley and the Sudan region of sub-Saharan Africa. [Wikipedia] |
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