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Countries with Deserts - Sudden Death

Choose countries that have one or more deserts. If you make one incorrect guess, you lose!
Deserts are arid places that receive less than 25 centimeters of rain a year.
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Albania
Argentina
Austria
Bangladesh
Bolivia
Djibouti
Ecuador
Egypt
Chad
Greece
Iraq
Ireland
Jordan
Kenya
Libya
Mozambique
New Zealand
Niger
Saudi Arabia
Slovakia
Taiwan
Turkmenistan
United States
Venezuela
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6 Comments
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Level 73
Nov 25, 2024
Does Germany really have deserts? There is no Category:Deserts of Germany in Wikipedia, and I could not find anything German in Category:Deserts of Europe.
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Level 58
Nov 25, 2024
Germany has the Lieberose Desert. This desert is located near the town of Lieberose in Brandenburg.

Here is the link for it:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Deserts_of_Germany

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Level 62
Feb 9, 2025
Interesting to find out about these places. However, I tried that link but there is no information on it, and the evidence I could find indicates that it is not a desert because it gets too much rain:

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-history-of-the-Lieberose-Desert-in-Germany

This appears to be backed up by:

https://www.weather-atlas.com/en/germany/lieberose-climate

Which says that Lieberose gets 267mm of rain a year.

Still a cool thing to find out about, though.

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Level 73
Nov 25, 2024
Oh, is the Lieberose desert in Germany actually a desert?
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Level 58
Nov 25, 2024
Yes, it is indeed a desert.
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Level 62
Feb 8, 2025
I cast doubt on Taiwan and New Zealand as well. I would definitely take New Zealand off your list - see this page:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Deserts_of_New_Zealand

It confirms that the area, although titled "desert", is not; it gets too much rain.

Taiwan is not on that Wikipedia list of countries which have deserts; there are a bunch of sand dunes there - I think it should be off the list as well unless you can find some proof for it. Again, somebody locally has used the word desert in the name but that's not evidence of rainfall or anything.

I looked up Venezuela, though, and it is okay!