Largest desert

Largest desert
Who
Antarctic Ice Sheet
What
14,000,000 square kilometre(s)
Where
Antarctica ()
When
2011

A “desert” is simply an area that has no or very little rainfall. By this definition, the largest desert is the Antarctic Ice Sheet, which covers around 98% of the continent of Antarctica, which is 14 million square kilometres (5.4 million square miles). The interior of the continent can experience as little as 50 millimetres (2 inches) of precipitation (water equivalent) per year.