Austria is not located in either a desert or a mountainous desert. 3/4ths of the country is dominated by the Alps and has an Alpine climate.
Greece has mountains, is not in the tropics and has no deserts.
Generally, deserts located furthest from the tropics are cold deserts. The closer to the tropics, the warmer the desert. Some are considered cold because they are at a higher altitude and others considered as cool desert because they are on a coastline that has cold ocean currents just off shore
Some subtropical deserts:1.) Sahara 2.) Arabian Desert 3.) Syrian Desert 4.) Kalahari Desert 5.) Thar Desert 6.) Mojave Desert 7.) Chihuahuan Desert 8.) Sonoran Desert
some of the land is mountainous, but most is desert
There is much more rainfall in the tropics than in the desert which supports a greater number and variety of plants.
Iraq is far from the tropics, its in the Middle East; much of the country is desert.
It's mountainous, mountainous ereas takes up nearly 70% of China's land area.
It is in a subtropical area close to the Sonoran desert but for practical purposes, yes it is in the tropics.
Japan is neither tropical nor a desert. It does, however, have mountains.
An impossibility - the equator is in the tropics and that region receives to much rain to have a desert.
Australia has both mountains and deserts.
Deserts can contain almost any landform - mountains, plains, canyons, valleys, hills, plateaus, etc.