Key facts
- Total
- 40,000 km (15,000 sq mi)
- Highest elevation
- 100 meters (330 ft)
- Surface elevation
- −20 m (−66 ft)
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
The Ryn Desert or Ryn-Peski Desert (Kazakh: Нарын құмы, Naryn-Qūmy; Russian: Рын-пески) is a desert in western Kazakhstan and Astrakhan Oblast, Russia.
Geography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ryn Desert” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.