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What deserts of the world are in the top ten largest?

The ten largest deserts in the world are considered to be the following (in square brackets the area in thousands of square kilometers is indicated): Sahara (North Africa) (9065), Australian deserts (3750), Gobi (Central Asia) (1295), Rub al-Khali (Arabian peninsula) (750), Sonora (USA and Mexico) (311), Kalahari (South Africa) (311), Karakum (Central Asia) (300), Takla Makan (Central Asia) (260), Namib (southwestern coast of Africa) (135) and Thar (Indo-Gangetic lowland) (130).

Author: Kondrashov A.P.

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In the Lezgi language, one word is used to designate an eagle and a liver - "lek". This is due to the long-standing custom of the highlanders to expose the bodies of the dead to be eaten by predatory eagles, who first of all tried to get to the liver of the deceased. Therefore, the Lezgins believed that it was in the liver that the soul of a person was located, which now passed into the body of a bird. There is a version that the ancient Greek myth of Prometheus, whom the gods chained to a rock, and the eagle daily pecked at his liver, is an allegorical description of such a rite of burial of the highlanders.

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