DASHTEKAVIR
Dasht-e Kavir
Dasht-e Kavir, also known as Kavir-e Namak and the Great Salt Desert is a large desert lying in the middle of the Iranian plateau. It is about and with a total surface area of about, making it the Earth's 23rd largest desert. The area of this desert stretches from the Alborz mountain range in the north-west to the Dasht-e Lut in the south-east and is partitioned between the Iranian provinces of Khorasan, Semnan, Tehran, Isfahan and Yazd.The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Dasht-e Kavir
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