The Gobi Desert covers about 500,000 square miles.
The Gobi desert, shared by both China and Mongolia is about 500,000 square miles and the 4th largest desert on earth.
The Gobi Desert covers about a half million square miles.
Sahara Desert
The nearest thing to that would be the Sahara Desert which covers over 9,400,000 square kilometres (3,630,000 sq mi).
The largest desert in the world is Antarctica with 14,000,000 square kilometers. The second largest desert is the Sahara with 9,400,000 square kilometers.
The world's largest hot desert is the Sahara in Northern Africa. It covers an area of about 9.1 million square kilometres, or 3.5 million square miles. It is not the world's largest desert, however. See the related question.
Sahara is in Africa. Sonora is in the US. Gobi is in China/Mongolia.
The entire continent is considered a desert, and at more than five million square miles, it is the largest on earth. It covers about 10% of the earth's surface.
The Sahara Desert is found north of Africa.
1,470,000
The Sahara Desert is only the world's largest hotdesert.The world's largest desert is Antarctica since a desert is defined as an area receiving less than 250 mm or 10 inches of precipitation per year. The Antarctic desert covers 13.9 million square kilometres, or almost 5.5 million square miles.
The Namib Desert covers 31,000 square miles.
The Atacama desert covers about 40600 square miles.