Dasht-e Loot (Persian: دشت لوت, "Emptiness Desert"), also spelled Dasht-i-Loot and known as the Loot Desert, is a large salt desert inKerman and Sistan and Baluchistan Province,Iran and is the world's 25th largest desert. The surface of the sand there has been measured at temperatures as high as 70 °C (159 °F), and it is one of the world's driest and hottest places.
Iran is climatically part of the Afro-Asian belt of deserts, which stretches from the Cape Verdeislands off West Africa all the way to Mongolianear Beijing, China. Iran's geography consists of a plateau surrounded by mountains and divided into drainage basins. Dasht-e Loot is one of the largest of these desert basins, 480 kilometers (300 mi) long and 320 kilometers (200 mi) wide, and is considered to be one of the driest places on Earth. Source: Wikipedia
Iran is climatically part of the Afro-Asian belt of deserts, which stretches from the Cape Verdeislands off West Africa all the way to Mongolianear Beijing, China. Iran's geography consists of a plateau surrounded by mountains and divided into drainage basins. Dasht-e Loot is one of the largest of these desert basins, 480 kilometers (300 mi) long and 320 kilometers (200 mi) wide, and is considered to be one of the driest places on Earth. Source: Wikipedia
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