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The Registan Desert (Persian: ریگستان), also known as Sistan Desert, is an extremely arid plateau region located between Helmand and Kandahar provinces in southeastern Afghanistan. It is a sandy desert consisting of small, red sand hills about 50–100 feet (15–30 m) high, sand-covered plains, and open rocky and clay-covered areas.
Rīgestān, (Persian: “country of sand”), arid plateau region in southwestern Afghanistan. Rīgestān is, for the greater part, a sandy desert with ridges and small, isolated hills of red sand. The sand ridges and dunes, reaching heights of between 50 and 100 feet (15 and 30 m), alternate with.
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Dasht-e Margo (Persian: دشت مارگو), also Dasht-e Mārgow or Dasht-e Margoh, is a desert region in the southern provinces of Nimruz and Helmand in Afghanistan. The desert is adjacent to the Dasht-e Khash and Registan Desert. It is the world's 20th largest desert at about 150,000 km 2 in
A rare tour of the Registan Desert (Red Desert) in an MI17 Helicopter flown by an Afghan National Army Pilot. The Red Desert borders Pakistan, and is hallowed ground for many empires...
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The Registan Desert, also known as Sistan Desert, is an extremely arid plateau region located between Helmand and Kandahar provinces in southeastern Afghanistan. It is a sandy desert consisting of small, red sand hills about 50–100 feet (15–30 m) high, sand-covered plains, and open rocky and clay-covered areas.
The Registan Desert is an extremely arid region and plateau located between the provinces of Helmand and Kandahar in southwestern Afghanistan. It is a 15-30 m sandy desert with areas of open rock and clay. It is sparsely populated by Pashtun and Baloch nomads.
The Registan-North Pakistan Sandy Desert covers a large semi-desert area in southern Afghanistan, extreme eastern Iran and northwest of Pakistan. Trees are mostly absent, and shrubs are dominant. There are several endemic reptiles in this desert.
