Desert Name Generator
Sand seas, salt flats, and wastes for your world map
Generate names for deserts, dune seas, salt flats, and badlands in the styles real deserts are named: Arabic and Berber ergs and hamadas, Central Asian kums and gobis, English descriptive names like the Great Sandy Desert, and mythic titles for fantasy wastelands.
About desert names
Real deserts are named with a small, precise vocabulary. In the Sahara and Arabia, erg is a sea of dunes, hamada a rocky plateau, reg or serir a gravel plain, and nafud or rimal simply sand; the Rub' al-Khali is the "Empty Quarter". Central Asian deserts use kum (sand) and gobi (waterless place), so Karakum means "black sand" and Kyzylkum "red sand". Persian dasht means plain, as in Dasht-e Kavir (the salt plain) and Dasht-e Lut (the plain of emptiness). English speakers named their deserts descriptively (Great Sandy Desert, Painted Desert, Skeleton Coast) or after explorers (Gibson, Simpson, Sturt).
The generator draws on all of these. You will find invented ergs and hamadas (Erg Tarshun, Hamada Kesh), colour deserts in the Arabic tradition (Sahra al-Bayda, the White Desert), salt flats and playas (the Mirror Flats, the Bonneville Flats), and single-word desert names such as Sarkesh and Zerzur. Mythic and ominous titles (the Grave of Caravans, the Land the Sun Forgot) are here for fantasy and post-apocalyptic wastelands. Also here: Spanish llanos and salares, southern African pans, cold high deserts, and frontier names.
A good desert name usually names the ground itself: sand, salt, glass, ash, stone. It can also name what the desert does to people. The Long Thirst and the Widowmaker are as authentic in spirit as any Erg.
How to choose desert names
- Choose the terrain first: erg or dune sea for sand, hamada or barrens for rock, flats or playa for salt, and use the matching word in the name.
- Pair a formal geographic name with a folk name, e.g. the Great Erg of Sabaresh, called the Grave of Caravans by the people who live on its edge.
- Colour names (Red, White, Black) usually describe the sand or rock and are among the most common real desert names; use them for realism.
- Single-word desert names like Ossir or Kesh let you refer to the whole region and its culture in one word, useful for maps and dialogue.
- Save the ominous mythic titles for the deepest, most dangerous stretch; a whole map of Cursed Sands loses its effect.
Frequently asked questions
What do words like erg, hamada, and dasht mean?
Erg is Arabic for a sand sea of dunes; hamada is a bare rocky plateau; reg or serir is a gravel plain; nafud is sandy desert in Arabia. Kum is Turkic for sand, gobi is Mongolian for a waterless place, and dasht is Persian for plain or desert.
Are the deserts in this list real?
Some are: the Ténéré, Tanezrouft, Aralkum, Dasht-e Lut, Nullarbor, Tanami, and Danakil are real. Others like Erg Tarshun, the Glass Barrens, and Zerzur are invented but built on real naming patterns. Both kinds are free to use in fiction.
How do I name a desert in my fantasy world?
Combine a terrain word with a proper name or colour: Erg + Tarshun, Red + Waste, Salt Pan + of Ossir. Then give it a nickname that reflects how the locals feel about it, such as the Long Thirst. Avoid stacking generic words like Scorching Sand Wastes, which no real culture would say.
What is the difference between a desert, a wasteland, and badlands?
A desert is defined by low rainfall and can be sandy, rocky, or even icy. A wasteland is any barren, uninhabitable land, natural or ruined. Badlands are dry terrain heavily eroded into gullies and ridges. In fiction the terms overlap, but naming a place the Barrens or the Badlands suggests rock and erosion rather than dunes.
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All 1,000 desert names
A: 19 names
- Adrar Waste
- Ak-Dala
- Ak-Kum
- Ak-Tuz
- Al-Dibdibah
- Al-Hisma
- Al-Jafurah
- Ala-Kum
- Alashan Sands
- Alkali Sink
- Amraq
- Aralkum
- Ard al-Atash
- Ard al-Nisyan
- Ard al-Sukut
- Arenal de las Tres Cruces
- Ashkar
- Ashkharun
- Azhmur
B: 25 names
- Badain Jaran
- Badwater Basin
- Bahr al-Rimal
- Bahr al-Sarab
- Bahr bila Ma'
- Bai Shamo
- Baltakyr
- Barkhans of Zumair
- Barqesh
- Barsakelmes
- Bayanzag
- Belhaz
- Belquar
- Betpak of Zerzur
- Betpak-Dala
- Biaban-e Khoshk
- Bilad al-Rimal
- Bilma Sands
- Bolshie Barsuki
- Bolsón de los Muertos
- Bolsón de Mapimí
- Bolsón del Silencio
- Borzongiin Gobi
- Boz-Kum
- Broken Axle Flat
C: 11 names
- Calloway's Folly
- Campo de Piedra Pómez
- Chazrun
- Cholistan Reach
- Cholistan Sands
- Chott el Djerid
- Chott Melrhir
- Chott of the Mirages
- Chott Ruhun
- Chul of the White Camel
- Chul of Vashum
D: 32 names
- Dahna Sands
- Dalbekum
- Dasht-e Bakwa
- Dasht-e Kavir
- Dasht-e Khamush
- Dasht-e Kharun
- Dasht-e Khash
- Dasht-e Lut
- Dasht-e Margo
- Dasht-e Namak
- Dasht-e Naomid
- Dasht-e Rig
- Dasht-e Sefid
- Dasht-e Siah
- Dasht-e Sukut
- Dasht-e Yaddir
- Dasht-e Zard
- Dead Horse Flat
- Deadvlei
- Death Valley
- Desierto de Ceniza
- Desierto de las Ánimas
- Desierto de los Espejos
- Desierto del Diablo
- Despoblado de Atacama
- Djado Reach
- Djebel Sands
- Dorsvlakte
- Dry Bones Hollow
- Dunmore's Crossing
- Durrak
- Dzungarian Waste
E: 39 names
- El Camino del Diablo
- El Desengaño
- El Despoblado
- El Djouf
- El Malpaís
- El Yermo
- Els of Ilkash
- Elsen Tasarkhai
- Empty Barrel Basin
- Erg Admer
- Erg Akchar
- Erg Amatlich
- Erg Bourarhet
- Erg Chebbi Minor
- Erg Chech
- Erg Chigaga
- Erg er Raoui
- Erg Iguidi Minor
- Erg Issaouane
- Erg Killian
- Erg Lihoudi
- Erg Makteir
- Erg Murzuq
- Erg Nahrim
- Erg of Bones
- Erg of the Buried Moon
- Erg of the Nine Winds
- Erg of the Seven Sisters
- Erg of the Silent Wind
- Erg of Yellow Evenings
- Erg Ouarane
- Erg Qadesh
- Erg Rebiana
- Erg Tarshun
- Erg Tifernine
- Erg Tihodaine
- Erg Tin Merzouga
- Erg Ubari
- Erg Zumair
F: 1 name
- Fezzan Waste
G: 8 names
- Galbyn Gobi
- Ghazir
- Ghazira
- Gran Desierto de Altar
- Grand Erg Amraq
- Grand Erg Occidental
- Grand Erg Oriental
- Gurbantünggüt Sands
H: 31 names
- Hakskeenpan
- Halqoren
- Hamada al-Bayda
- Hamada al-Hajar
- Hamada al-Sarir
- Hamada de Tindouf
- Hamada de Tinrhert
- Hamada du Draa
- Hamada du Guir
- Hamada Kesh
- Hamada Kharun
- Hamada Marzuq
- Hamada of the Old Kings
- Hamada of the Split Rock
- Hamada Sarr
- Hamada Tounassine
- Hamun of the Reeds That Were
- Hamzir
- Hanhai
- Hardscrabble Desert
- Harrat al-Sham
- Harrat Khaybar
- Harrat Kishb
- Harrat of the Black Stones
- Harrat Rahat
- Harrat Uwayrid
- Hei Shamo
- Hexi Sands
- Hidden Vlei
- Hobq Sands
- Hunshandake Sands
I: 3 names
- Idehan of the Lost Wells
- Idrun
- Ilkash
J: 5 names
- Jhalqir
- Jiddat al-Harasis
- Jornada de la Sed
- Jornada del Muerto
- Jorum
K: 27 names
- Kara-Kesh
- Kara-Tau Sands
- Karakum Kesh
- Karakum Rimal
- Kavir Ashk
- Kavir Nur-Kadesh
- Kavir Zerzur
- Kavir-e Namak
- Kavir-e Sukhteh
- Kesh
- Kessler's Dry
- Khar Els
- Kharun
- Khermen Tsav
- Khongoryn Els
- Kizil-Sarr
- Klipvlakte
- Kok-Kum
- Kum-Sarkesh
- Kum-Tagh
- Kumsara
- Kumtag Sands
- Kyrsalan
- Kyzyl-Jar Badlands
- Kyzyl-Tash
- Kyzylkum Sarr
- Kyzylkum Vale
L: 12 names
- La Fragua
- Lake Disappointment
- Last Canteen Reach
- Liusha
- Llano de la Paciencia
- Llano de los Huesos
- Llano del Olvido
- Llano Estacado
- Llano Quemado
- Lop Nur Salt
- Lost Mule Basin
- Luzhar
M: 17 names
- Majabat al-Koubra
- Malpaís de los Cuervos
- Malpaís Negro
- Mangyshlak Reach
- Mar de Arena
- Marrak
- Maru of the Salt Wells
- Marusthali
- Médanos de Coro
- Médanos de Samalayuca
- Médanos del Viento
- Mirzachul
- Moltsog Els
- Mongol Els
- Moyunkum Ashkar
- Mu Us Sands
- Muyunkum
N: 14 names
- Nafud al-Dahi
- Nafud al-Mazhur
- Nafud al-Sirr
- Nafud al-Thuwayrat
- Nafud al-Urayq
- Nafud Amraq
- Nafud Kesh
- Nahrim
- Namakzar of Belquar
- Nashkul
- No Water Draw
- Ntwetwe Pan
- Nur-Kadesh
- Nxai Pan
O: 5 names
- Ombekh
- Ordos Waste
- Orrukesh
- Ossir
- Ouzgharet
P: 8 names
- Pampa de la Sed
- Pampa del Tamarugal
- Pirazhan
- Plain of the Hundred and Twenty Day Wind
- Poison Well Flats
- Pruitt's Sink
- Puna de Atacama
- Puna of the Four Winds
Q: 4 names
- Qa' al-Jafr
- Qattara Reach
- Qenhir
- Qorra
R: 33 names
- Racetrack Playa
- Ramlat al-Ghurub
- Ramlat al-Sab'atayn
- Ramlat al-Wahiba
- Ramlat Dahm
- Reg al-Sawda
- Reg Ashkar
- Reg of Broken Pots
- Reg of the Black Pebbles
- Reg of the Cairns
- Reg Ouarzam
- Reg Tanezrouft
- Reg Yaddir
- Registan Sands
- Registan Vashum
- Rhuzan
- Rig-e Amraq
- Rig-e Jenn
- Rig-e Ravan
- Rig-e Yalan
- Rig-e Zarin
- Rimal al-Dhahab
- Rimal Ghazir
- Rimal Nasir
- Rimal Zahra
- Rohi of Ilkash
- Rohi Waste
- Rooiduine
- Rub' al-Khali
- Rub' al-Nujum
- Rub' al-Rimal
- Rub' al-Sukut
- Ruhun
S: 46 names
- Sabaresh
- Sabkhat al-Milh
- Sabkhat al-Sarab
- Sabkhat Matti
- Sabkhat Qorra
- Sahra al-Bayda
- Sahra al-Hamra
- Sahra al-Jinn
- Sahra al-Khadra
- Sahra al-Milh
- Sahra al-Nujum
- Sahra al-Rih
- Sahra al-Safra
- Sahra al-Samt
- Sahra al-Sawda
- Sahra al-Zarqa
- Sahra Nashkul
- Salar de Arizaro
- Salar de la Viuda
- Salar del Cielo
- Salar del Hombre Muerto
- Salinas del Espejo
- Salinas Grandes
S, continued
- Sarkesh
- Sary-Ishik
- Sary-Kum
- Sebkha of the White Crust
- Sebkha Tazir
- Serir al-Qamar
- Serir Belhaz
- Serir Kalanshiyu
- Serir Nur
- Serir of the Dead Camel
- Serir of the Wind
- Serir Tibesti
- Shar Tal
- Shargyn Gobi
- Shor of Nahrim
- Sixty Mile Dry
- Soda Lake Desert
- Sossusvlei
- Soutvlakte
- Starvation Flats
- Stofvlakte
- Sua Pan
- Sukut
T: 633 names
- Tagh-e Nur
- Taklamakan of the West
- Taklamakan Reach
- Takyr of Ghazir
- Tanezrouft Sar
- Tarshun
- Tashkuru
- Tassili of Idrun
- Taukum
- Tazir
- Ténéré Wastes
- Tengger Flats
- Tephuset
- Thar Kesh
- Thar Rimal
- The Acacia Barrens
- The Accona Desert
- The Afar Reach
- The Alashan Reach
- The Algodones Dunes
- The Alkali Reach
- The Alvord
- The Alxa Rim
- The Amargosa Desert
- The Amber Dunes
- The Ancient Shore
- The Anvil
- The Arabah
- The Aral Karakum
- The Ash Sea of Kharun
- The Ash Sea of Yaddir
- The Ashdown Stony Desert
- The Ashen Waste
- The Asphalt Barrens
- The Atacama Fringe
- The Atacama Salt
- The Atmur
- The Azawagh
- The Badiya
T, continued
- The Badiyat al-Sham
- The Badlands of Kesh
- The Bardenas Reales
- The Barrens of Anhur
- The Barrens of Sabaresh
- The Barrows of Sarkesh
- The Basalt Tableland
- The Basin of Ash
- The Basin of Kesh
- The Basin of Thirst
- The Bayuda Waste
- The Big Desert
- The Bisti Badlands
- The Bitter Flats
- The Bitter Shor
- The Bitter Tableland
- The Black Barkhans
- The Black Desert
- The Black Gobi
- The Black Ice Barrens
- The Black Rock Playa
- The Black Rock Waste
- The Blank
- The Bleached Barrens
- The Bleeding Badlands
- The Blinding Waste
- The Blistered Flats
- The Blue Desert
- The Blue Ice Flats
- The Bodélé Depression
- The Bone Badlands
- The Bone Flats
- The Bone Vlei
- The Bone Waste
- The Bonekeeper
- The Bones of the Old Sea
- The Bonneville Flats
- The Booming Dunes
- The Breathing Sands
- The Breathless Heights
T, continued
- The Brickfielder Plain
- The Bride of the Sun
- The Bright Waste
- The Bronze Desert
- The Burning Quarter
- The Burnished Lands
- The Butana
- The Caliche Plain
- The Camel's Grave
- The Caravan Graves
- The Carcross Desert
- The Carson Sink
- The Cauldron
- The Cemetery of Wells
- The Chagai Sands
- The Chalbi
- The Chalbi Salt
- The Chalk Desert
- The Changtang
- The Channeled Scablands
- The Chara Sands
- The Charred Heath
- The Chergui Hamada
- The Chihuahuan Reach
- The Chihuahuan Waste
- The Chrome Flats
- The Cinder Barrens
- The Cinderlands
- The Cinderwold
- The Clinker Fields
- The Cloudless Plateau
- The Coast of Dry Fog
- The Coast of Wrecks
- The Coffin Sands
- The Cold Erg
- The Colorado Waste
- The Concrete Erg
- The Copper Desert
- The Country of Lost Tracks
T, continued
- The Cracked Flats
- The Cracked Takyr
- The Cradle of Storms
- The Crater Flats
- The Creosote Flats
- The Crescent Dunes
- The Crucible
- The Cursed Sands
- The Dallol Depression
- The Danakil
- The Daughter of the Wind
- The Dead Basin
- The Dead Grid
- The Dead Signal Flats
- The Deliblato Sands
- The Desert of Broken Wheels
- The Desert of Echoes
- The Desert of Lost Names
- The Desert of the Fifty Day Wind
- The Desert of the Last Well
- The Desert of the Two Moons
- The Desert of Wandering
- The Desert of White Nights
- The Desert Without Stars
- The Devil's Griddle
- The Devil's Playground
- The Devouring Dunes
- The Djourab
- The Dorsland
- The Dragon's Spine Dunes
- The Drumming Sands
- The Dry Lake of Ossir
- The Dry Mercy
- The Dry Sea
- The Dry Valleys
- The Drylands of Barqesh
- The Drywash
- The Dun Country
- The Dune Sea of Belhaz
- The Dune Sea of Marrak
T, continued
- The Dune Sea of Ossir
- The Dunes of Forgetting
- The Dunes of Morning
- The Dunes That Walk at Night
- The Dusk Barrens
- The Dust Bowl of Ur
- The Dust Country of Rhuzan
- The Dust Devil Flats
- The Dust of Anhur
- The Dustfell
- The Dustreach
- The Eastern Sands
- The Eastern Waste
- The Emptied Sea
- The Emptiness of Luzhar
- The Emptiness of Ur
- The Empty Cup
- The Empty Quarter
- The Endless Flats
- The Engine Graveyard
- The Erg Beyond Ossir
- The Escalante Waste
- The Etosha Pan
- The Fallen Sea
- The Fallow Belt
- The Far Dry
- The Farafra Waste
- The Father of Thirst
- The Ferlo
- The Field of Skulls
- The Flats of Tazir
- The Flint Plain
- The Fog Desert
- The Forge Plain
- The Forgotten Quarter
- The Forty Mile Desert
- The Frost Barrens
- The Frostbite Flats
- The Frozen Gobi
T, continued
- The Fulgurite Field
- The Furnace
- The Fused Plain
- The Gaxun Waste
- The Ghost Lake
- The Gibber Plain of Azhmur
- The Gibson Plain
- The Gilf of Anhur
- The Glacier's Shadow
- The Glare of Kyrsalan
- The Glarefield
- The Glass Barrens
- The Glasslands
- The Gobi Fringe
- The Gobi Reaches
- The Golden Desert
- The Grand Bara
- The Grave of Caravans
- The Gravel Sea of Ouzgharet
- The Graveyard of Rivers
- The Great Bake
- The Great Basin Salt
- The Great Basin Waste
- The Great Chul
- The Great Erg of Sabaresh
- The Great Erg of Tazir
- The Great Gobi Waste
- The Great Karoo
- The Great Nafud
- The Great Namakzar
- The Great Nothing
- The Great Pan
- The Great Playa
- The Great Rann
- The Great Rann of Kesh
- The Great Salar
- The Great Salt Lake Desert
- The Great Salt Playa
- The Great Salt Sea
- The Great Sand Sea
T, continued
- The Great Sandy Desert
- The Great Sandy Waste
- The Great Stony Desert
- The Great Victoria Sands
- The Grey Wastes
- The Griddle
- The Guajira Desert
- The Guban
- The Gypsum Dunes
- The Haboob Country
- The Hamad
- The Hami Sands
- The Hardeveld
- The Hardpan
- The Harmattan Plain
- The Harrow Desert
- The Hermit's Reward
- The High Puna
- The Hoarfrost Reach
- The Hollow of Jhalqir
- The Horqin Sandy Land
- The Howling Barrens
- The Hulunbuir Dunes
- The Humming Dunes
- The Hundred Mile Flat
- The Hundred Salt Pans
- The Hungry Sands
- The Hungry Steppe
- The Ice Hamada
- The Iron Barrens
- The Ivory Dunes
- The Jackal's Kitchen
- The Jaz Murian
- The Jordan Waste
- The Judaean Waste
- The Junggar Reach
- The Ka'u Desert
- The Kaisut
- The Kalahari Fringe
T, continued
- The Kalahari Sands
- The Kali Andhi Flats
- The Kalut Field
- The Kaluts of Vashum
- The Kaokoveld
- The Karaburan Basin
- The Karoo
- The Karshi Steppe
- The Katabatic Plain
- The Katpana
- The Kerulen Waste
- The Kgalagadi
- The Khamsin Flats
- The Kharan Waste
- The Kiln
- The Kizilkum of Idrun
- The Knersvlakte
- The Koroli Desert
- The Kutch Salt
- The Ladakh Barrens
- The Lake That Was
- The Land of Bones
- The Land of Fear
- The Land of Glass
- The Land of No Return
- The Land of Salt Ghosts
- The Land of Thirst
- The Land the Sun Forgot
- The Land Without Wells
- The Last Shade
- The Lechuguilla Desert
- The Lee of the World
- The Lesser Erg of Kesh
- The Libyan Sands
- The Little Karoo
- The Little Nafud
- The Little Rann
- The Little Salt Waste
- The Little Sand Sea
- The Little Sandy Desert
T, continued
- The Lizard Country
- The Lizard's Throne
- The Locust Plain
- The Lompoul Dunes
- The Long Dry
- The Long Glare
- The Long Thirst
- The Long Walk
- The Lop Waste
- The Lut Fringe
- The Makgadikgadi
- The Mapmaker's Grief
- The Maranjab
- The Marrowsand
- The Marwar Sands
- The Meltline
- The Mercer Desert
- The Mesquite Desert
- The Mica Drifts
- The Mirage Country
- The Mirage Flats
- The Mirror Flats
- The Mirror of Kesh
- The Mirrormarch
- The Mojave Basin
- The Mojave Waste
- The Monegros
- The Monte
- The Moon's Mirror
- The Mother of Dust
- The Mourdi Depression
- The Nafud Nasira
- The Nama Waste
- The Namib Coast
- The Namib Sands
- The Nazca Waste
- The Negev Reach
- The Nemegt Basin
- The Nine Day Sands
- The Nine Playas
T, continued
- The Ninety Mile Desert
- The Nogai Steppe
- The Noon Country
- The Northern Sands
- The Nubian Sands
- The Nullarbor
- The Nyiri
- The Obsidian Reach
- The Ochre Desert
- The Ogaden Waste
- The Oleshky Sands
- The Oven
- The Owyhee Waste
- The Painted Badlands
- The Painted Desert
- The Pale Plateau
- The Pan of Deceit
- The Parchlands
- The Patagonian Waste
- The Patient Desert
- The Pearl Flats
- The Pedirka
- The Permafrost Pan
- The Petit Bara
- The Pilbara Waste
- The Pilgrim's Trial
- The Pinnacles Desert
- The Playa of Kesh
- The Polar Desert
- The Prospector's Rest
- The Pumice Desert
- The Pylon Desert
- The Qaidam Basin
- The Quartz Fields
- The Quiet Thirst
- The Radiant Pan
- The Rangipo Desert
- The Rann of Ossir
- The Reach of No Shadows
T, continued
- The Reach of Nur-Kadesh
- The Reach of Vashum
- The Rebar Dunes
- The Red Desert
- The Red Erg of Qenhir
- The Red Rock Waste
- The Red Waste
- The Registan Reach
- The Restless Erg
- The Richtersveld
- The Rime Flats
- The River That Never Arrives
- The Roaring Desert
- The Roof of Thirst
- The Rust Desert
- The Rusted Badlands
- The Ryn Desert
- The Saffron Dunes
- The Salar of Ossir
- The Salt Altiplano
- The Salt Barrens
- The Salt Flats of Nashkul
- The Salt of Kings
- The Salt Pan of Ossir
- The Salt Pan of Vashum
- The Salt Roads
- The Salt Sea Bed
- The Salt Sink of Dalbekum
- The Salt Waste
- The Saltbush Plain
- The Saltmarch
- The Saltscar
- The Saltwold
- The San Rafael Waste
- The Sand Ocean
- The Sand Reckoner's Despair
- The Sandbound Coast
- The Sandfall
- The Sandgrave
- The Sandmarch
T, continued
- The Sands of Ash
- The Sands of Kesh
- The Sands of Sorrow
- The Sands of the Old Sea
- The Sands of Time
- The Sandstorm Coast
- The Sandveld
- The Sary Waste
- The Sary-Arka
- The Sastrugi Field
- The Scablands of Pirazhan
- The Scald
- The Scorch
- The Scorpion Flats
- The Scorpion's Garden
- The Scourlands
- The Screaming Barrens
- The Sea of Ash
- The Sea of Bones
- The Sea of Broken Ships
- The Sea of Death
- The Sea of Dust
- The Sea of Glass
- The Sea of Mirrors
- The Sea of Salt
- The Sea of Sighs
- The Sea of Thorns
- The Sea That Was
- The Sea Without Water
- The Sear
- The Sechura
- The Selima Sands
- The Sevier Desert
- The Shadeless
- The Shahdad Kaluts
- The Shamal Reach
- The Shattered Barrens
- The Shell Desert
- The Shifting Sea
T, continued
- The Shimmer Flats
- The Silence of Marrak
- The Silent Quarter
- The Silent Sands
- The Simoom Barrens
- The Simpson Erg
- The Sinai Waste
- The Singing Sands
- The Sirocco Coast
- The Sistan Basin
- The Skeleton Coast
- The Skillet
- The Slag Barrens
- The Slagfields
- The Sleeping Sands
- The Slurry Flats
- The Smoke Creek Desert
- The Snowless Valleys
- The Sonoran Fringe
- The Sonoran Waste
- The Soot Plain
- The Sossus Sands
- The Southern Dry
- The Sperrgebiet
- The Spiti Cold Desert
- The Sprawl That Was
- The Star Dunes
- The Starving North
- The Steppe of Idrun
- The Stone Gobi
- The Stone Sea of Halqoren
- The Stone Tundra
- The Strip Mine Desert
- The Strzelecki
- The Sturt Stony Desert
- The Sulphur Flats
- The Summan Plateau
- The Sun Barrens
- The Sun's Anvil
- The Sun's Own Country
T, continued
- The Sunder Waste
- The Sundered Sands
- The Sundrift
- The Sundukli
- The Sunken Basin
- The Sunlands
- The Sunmarch
- The Sunscar
- The Surveyor's Regret
- The Sword Dunes
- The Syrian Waste
- The Tabernas Desert
- The Tablelands of Chazrun
- The Tademaït
- The Tailings
- The Tamarisk Desert
- The Tamesna
- The Tanami
- The Tanezrouft
- The Tarfields
- The Taru
- The Tatacoa Desert
- The Tawny Desert
- The Teamster's Curse
- The Ténéré
- The Ténéré of Ilkash
- The Thal Waste
- The Thar Fringe
- The Thin Air Desert
- The Thirsting Road
- The Thirstland
- The Thirsty Quarter
- The Thirteen Dunes
- The Thorn Barrens
- The Thornbush Desert
- The Thousand Craters
- The Thousand Dunes
- The Three Day Crossing
- The Tih Plateau
T, continued
- The Tirari
- The Tolliver Desert
- The Tomb of Rain
- The Topsoil Graves
- The Tottori Dunes
- The Trackless Desert
- The Trans-Altai Gobi
- The Tularosa Basin
- The Tule Desert
- The Tumbleweed Flats
- The Turan Waste
- The Turpan Deep
- The Umber Reach
- The Unforgiven Plain
- The Unmapped Desert
- The Unrained Country
- The Unshaded Mile
- The Ustyurt Rim
- The Uyuni Flats
- The Vanished Sea
- The Varzaneh Dunes
- The Vermilion Waste
- The Viper Dunes
- The Vitrified Reach
- The Vizcaíno Desert
- The Vlei of Dead Trees
- The Vulture Plain
- The Vulture's Table
- The Wadi Howar
- The Wailing Erg
- The Walking Dunes
- The Waste Beyond the Wall
- The Waste of Kings
- The Waste of Nine Kings
- The Waste of Ten Thousand Steps
- The Waste of Ur
- The Wastes of Anhur
- The Wastes of Zerzur
- The Water Thief
- The Waterless Stage
T, continued
- The Wavering Mile
- The Weeping Sands
- The Western Erg
- The Western Sands
- The Whaleback Dunes
- The Whispering Dunes
- The White Desert
- The White Flats
- The White Pan
- The White Salar
- The White Sands
- The Whitened Reach
- The Whitlock Desert
- The Widowmaker
- The Wilderness of Etham
- The Wilderness of Paran
- The Wilderness of Shur
- The Wilderness of Sin
- The Wilderness of Zin
- The Wilderness of Ziph
- The Wind's Larder
- The Wind's Workshop
- The Windharrow
- The Windscour
- The Winter Dunes
- The Yadan Field
- The Yardangs of Lop
- The Yellow Desert
- The Yellow Gobi
- The Yuha Desert
- The Yuma Sands
- The Zonda Desert
- Thirsty Ox Plain
- Tierra de Nadie
- Tierra Quemada
- Tin-Aghour
- Tor-Amraq
- Tsagaan Els
- Tuz-Dala
- Tuz-Kum
U: 8 names
- Ul-Kharon
- Ulaan Els
- Ulan Buh Sands
- Umm al-Samim
- Uruq al-Mutaridah
- Uruq Bani Ma'arid
- Uruq Subay
- Ustyurt Waste
V: 5 names
- Valle de la Luna
- Valle de la Muerte
- Vashum
- Vaskar
- Verneukpan
W: 7 names
- Wadi al-Ghazir
- Wadi Durrak
- Wadi of the Dry Reeds
- Wadi of the Nine Wells
- Wadi Sirhan
- Where the Simoom Sleeps
- Witsand
Y: 3 names
- Yaddir
- Yarrow's Despair
- Yezhkar