where is the syrian desert located on a map
Syrian Desert The Syrian Desert (Arabic: بادية الشام‎, Bâdiyat aş-Şâm), also known as the Hamad,[1] is a combination of steppe and desert covering 500,000 square kilometers (200,000 square miles) of the Middle East, including parts of south-eastern Syria, northeastern Jordan, northern Saudi Arabia, and western Iraq. To the south it borders and merges into the Arabian Desert.[2] The land is open, gravely desert pavement, cut with occasional wadis.[3][4]