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1 The Chihuahuan Desert â the largest desert in North America, located in the Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico - (140,000 square miles (360,000 km 2)). 2  The Sonoran Desert â a desert located in the Southwestern United States and Northwest Mexico. 3  It is the second largest desert in North America.
The Antarctic Polar Desert covers the continent of Antarctica and has a size of about 5.5 million square miles. The second-largest desert is the Arctic Polar Desert. It extends over parts of Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia. It has a surface area of about 5.4 million square miles. The rest of Earth's deserts are outside of the polar areas. The largest is the Sahara Desert, a subtropical desert in northern Africa. It covers a surface area of about 3.5 million square miles. A list of the twenty largest non-polar deserts can be found below. When most people think of a desert they imagine a landscape covered with sand and sand dunes.