Australia's Western Desert is not the name of an actual desert; it is the common short form for Australia's Western Desert cultural bloc. It covers about 600,000 square kilometers, and includes parts of these 4 deserts:
Great Victoria Desert;
Great Sandy Desert;
Gibson Desert;
Little Sandy Desert
The Western Desert is a cultural grouping by anthropologists of about 40 or so Aboriginal tribes who live in central Australia.
Australia has numerous deserts, and several of them are very large. The three largest deserts in Australia are: Great Victoria Desert (Western Australia): 424,400 km2 (163,900 square miles) Great Sandy Desert (Western Australia): 284,993 km2 (110,036 square miles) Tanami Desert (Western Australia and Northern Territory): 184,500 km2 (71,235 square miles) Each of these deserts is either in or primarily in Western Australia, in the western third of the continent.
Sahara Desert Chihuahuan Desert Gobi Desert
Panama has no deserts.
The two major deserts in Mexico are the Chihuahuan Desert and the Sonoran Desert.
The Atacama is on the northwestern coast of Chile.
The Antarctic Desert is the desert of Antarctica.
There are no deserts in Poland.
There are no deserts in Switzerland.
Italy has no true deserts.
All deserts are dry. That's why they are called deserts.
The Sahara Desert. The Namib Desert. The Kalahari Desert. The Karoo Desert.
Antarctica and the Atacama Desert are the driest deserts in the world.