Deserts of Central Asia

desert in Turkmenistan

desert in Central Asia

desert on the seabed once occupied by the Aral Sea

thumb|Betpak-Dala in Kazakhstan Betpak-Dala or Betpaqdala (, Betpaqdala; from Turkic batpak, “swampy,” or Persian bedbaht, “unlucky” and Turkic dala, “plain”; Russian: Бетпак-Дала or Сeверная Голодная степь, lit. Hungry Steppe) is a desert zone in the Ulytau, Karaganda, Turkestan, and Zhambyl regions, Kazakhstan.

desert northeast of the Aral Sea

desert

Karagiye (; "Black Jaw") is a -long karst trench close to the Caspian Sea. At its lowest point at Vpadina Kaundy, it is approximately below sea level. It is the lowest point in Central Asia, Kazakhstan, and the former Soviet Union. It is also known as the Karagiye Depression and Karagiye Mountain Trench.

thumb|Nomadic Kyrgyz people|Kyrgyz family on the Mirzachoʻl Steppe in Uzbekistan, 1911. (photograph by S. M. Prokudin-Gorskii) Mirzachoʻl (; ) is a loess plain of some 10,000 km2 on the left bank of Syr Darya in Uzbekistan, extending from the mouth of Ferghana Valley on the border with Tajikistan to the east across Sirdaryo Region and the northern part of Jizzakh Region to the west. To the south it is bounded by Turkestan Range.

desert in eastern Kazakhstan

desert in Kazakhstan

desert region of Kazakhstan

Taukum () is a desert in the Almaty Region, Kazakhstan.

Ecoregion in Kazakhstan

Ecoregion in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan