write a detail report on Sahara(Hot desert )and Ladakh (cold desert)
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The Cold Desert: Ladakh
Ladakh is a cold desert in India. It lies in the Great Himalayas, on the eastern side of Jammu and Kashmir. It has the mighty Karakoram Range in the North and in the south, it is bound by the Zanskar mountains. Several rivers flow through Ladakh. The most important one is the Indus.
The Sahara Desert
The Sahara desert covers a large part of North Africa. It has the following features:
- Sahara is the world’s largest desert. It covers an area of around 8.54 million square kilometres (which is more than the total area of India!!).
- The desert touches eleven countries which are as follows: Algeria, Morocco, Chad, Egypt, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Sudan, Tunisia and Western Sahara.
- It has gravel plains and elevated plateaus with a bare rocky surface. These rocky surfaces, at some places, are more than 2500 m high.
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sahara desert is known as hot desert whereas ladakh is known as cold desert . in sahara the temprature rises upto 57 degrees and the rainfall is less than 7.6cm whereas in ladakh the temprature is less than -20 degrees and the rainfall during winters and maximum upto 27 degrees during summer time when the ice melts. Hot and cold deserts are the landscapes with very low precipitation. Both are dry, arid, and rocky. Both have the least rainfall with respect to other types of deserts. The precipitation sometimes evaporates before it hits the ground.
Ladakh (cold desert):
Ladakh is a cold desert in India. It lies in the Great Himalayas, on the eastern side of Jammu and Kashmir. It has the mighty Karakoram Range in the North and in the south, it is bound by the Zanskar mountains. Several rivers flow through Ladakh.
Extreme cold temperatures make vegetation in Ladakh extremely sparse, but one can find a little vegetation along rivers on high slopes and in irrigated places. People grow barley, potatoes, peas, beans and turnip in vegetable and apples, apricots and walnuts in fruits in the irrigated places.
Climate of ladhak : In summers, the temperature during the day is just above zero degrees and the night temperature is much below -30°C. In winters the temperature remains as low as -40°C most of the time. The rainfall in this region is as low as 10 cm annually.
Sahara Desert:
Sahara desert is the world's largest desert. The Sahara is a desert on the African continent . With an area of 9,200,000 square ... and the lack of vegetation and rainfall make the Great Desert the hottest large region in the world, ...
Countries: List: Algeria; Chad; Egypt; Libya; Mali; Mauritania; Morocco; Niger; Sudan; ...
Area: 9,200,000 km2 (3,600,000 sq mi)
Length: 4,800 km (3,000 mi)
Width: 1,800 km (1,100 mi)
The Sahara covers large parts of Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Western Sahara, Sudan and Tunisia. It covers 9 million square kilometres (3,500,000 sq mi), amounting to 31% of Africa.
The Sahara is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean on the west, the Red Sea on the east, the Mediterranean Sea on the north and the Sahel Savannah on the south. The enormous desert spans 11 countries: Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Western Sahara, Sudan and Tunisia. Sand dunes in the Sahara, near Merzouga, Morocco. The Sahara is the world's largest desert; it extends across most of the northern part of Africa. Encyclopædia Britannica.
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