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The Patagonian Desert (260,000 square miles) is much larger than the Atacama Desert (54,000 square miles).

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The Gobi Desert of Asia is a cold winter desert in the interior of a continent. The Atacama is a cool coastal desert on the west coast of South America.

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How is the Gobi Desert different from the Atacama Desert?

The Gobi Desert is a cold winter desert that has hot summers and bitterly cold winters. The Atacama is a cool coastal desert with no temperature extremes. It is mild all year.


What desert is futhest north the Gobi desert the Nubian desert or the Atacama?

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What is the difference between the Amazon rainforest and the Atacama Desert?

Both of them owe their existence to the Andes Mountains and both are high plateaus between two mountain ranges.The Altiplano is much colder than the Atacama Desert.The Altiplano receives more precipitation than the Atacama Desert.The Altiplano has considerably more vegetation than the Atacama Desert.The Altiplano has a much higher average elevation than the Atacama Desert.


Which is the coldest - the Sahara or the Gobi?

The Sahara Desert is hotter than the Atacama Desert, it's larger than the Atacama Desert and it has more life, but the Atacama Desert is much drier. The Atacama Desert is the driest place on Earth, with an average of less than a millimetre of the rain.


What is the name of a cold desert?

Antarctica, Gobi, Atacama are all cold deserts.


Which is bigger - the gobi desert or the Arabian desert?

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Where are deserts cold?

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What deserts is in the US Atacama Mojave Sahara Gobi?

The Mojave Desert is in the United States.


Why are there hot deserts but not cold ones?

There are a number of cold deserts: Antarctica, Patagonian Desert, Atacama Desert, Great Basin Desert, Gobi Desert for example.


What are some deserts outside the US?

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What is desert that starts with a g?

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What is the desert that goes through china and Mongolia?

The Gobi Desert. P.S. I think its sorta stupid that in the related questions there is a question that asks, 'What desert is located between China and Mongolia.' Same question, same answer.