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Empty Quarter

The Empty Quarter is the large, expansive desert encompassing a large part of the Arabian Peninsula. It's the largest continuous body of sand in the world.
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  • Type: Desert
  • Description: desert
  • Also known as: “Ar Rab‘ al Khālī”, “Ar Rab` al Khali”, “Ar Rimal”, “Ar Rub‘ al Khālī”, “Ar Rub` al Khali”, “Dahna”, “Great Sandy Desert”, “Rhub al Khali”, “Rub‘ al Khali”, “Rub’ al Khali”, “Ruba‘-al-Khali”, and “Ruba’-al-Khāli”

Empty Quarter

Latitude of center
21° north
Longitude of center
51° east
Elevation
170 metres (558 feet)
Open­Street­Map ID
node 6937224475
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­desert
Geo­Names ID
102788
Wiki­data ID
Q229269
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Empty Quarter” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Rub’al-Khali”
  • Arabic: “الربع الخالي”
  • Arabic: “ربع خالي”
  • Arabic: “صحراء الربع الخالي”
  • Armenian: “Ռուբ ալ-Խալի անապատ”
  • Armenian: “Ռուբ-Էլ-Խալի”
  • Asturian: “Rub al-Khali”
  • Azerbaijani: “Rub əl-Xali”
  • Azerbaijani: “Rub-əl-Xali”
  • Basque: “Rub al-Jali”
  • Basque: “Rub al-Khali”
  • Belarusian: “Руб-эль-Халі”
  • Bengali: “الربع الخالي”
  • Bengali: “আর-রুব‘ আল-খালি”
  • Bengali: “আর-রুব’ আল-খালি”
  • Breton: “Roub‘ al-C’hali”
  • Breton: “Roub’ al-C’hali”
  • Bulgarian: “Руб ал Хали”
  • Bulgarian: “Руб ал-Хали”
  • Bulgarian: “Руб ел-Хали”
  • Catalan: “Al-Rub al-Khali”
  • Catalan: “Districte buit”
  • Catalan: “Rub al Kali”
  • Catalan: “Rub al-Kali”
  • Catalan: “Rub al-Khali”
  • Catalan: “Rub‘ al Khali”
  • Central Kurdish: “ڕوبع ئەلخالی”
  • Chinese: “魯卜哈利沙漠”
  • Chinese: “鲁卜哈利沙漠”
  • Croatian: “Rub‘ al Khali”
  • Croatian: “Rub’ al Khali”
  • Czech: “Rub al-Chálí”
  • Czech: “Velká arabská poušť”
  • Danish: “Rub al-Khali”
  • Dutch: “Ar-Rub al-Hali”
  • Dutch: “Ar-Rub al-Khali”
  • Dutch: “Ar-Rub‘ al-Hali”
  • Dutch: “Ar-Rub’ al-Hali”
  • Dutch: “El- Roeb el-Chali”
  • Dutch: “El-Roeb el-Chali”
  • Dutch: “Het Lege Kwartier”
  • Dutch: “Lege Kwartier”
  • Dutch: “Roeb al chali”
  • Dutch: “Roeb al-Chali”
  • Dutch: “Roeb el-Chali”
  • Dutch: “Rub al Khali”
  • Dutch: “Rub al-Khali”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “الربع الخالى”
  • Esperanto: “Rub al-Ĥali”
  • Esperanto: “Rub-al-Ĥali”
  • Esperanto: “Rub-al-Ĥalo”
  • Esperanto: “Vaka kvartalo”
  • Estonian: “Ar-Rub al-Khali”
  • Estonian: “Ar-Rub‘ al-Khālī”
  • Estonian: “Rub al-Hali”
  • Estonian: “Rub‘ al Khali”
  • Finnish: “Iso Arabian aavikko”
  • Finnish: “Rub al Khali”
  • Finnish: “Rub al-Khali”
  • Finnish: “Rub-al-Khali”
  • Finnish: “Rub‘ al Khali”
  • Finnish: “Rub‘ al-Khali”
  • Finnish: “Rub’ al-Khali”
  • French: “Empty Quarter”
  • French: “Quart Vide”
  • French: “Rub al Khali”
  • French: “Rub al-Khali”
  • French: “Rub al-Khâli”
  • French: “Rub‘ al Khali”
  • French: “Ruba-al-Khalil”
  • Galician: “Deserto de Rub al-Khalí”
  • Galician: “Rub al-Khali”
  • Galician: “Rub al-Khalí”
  • Georgian: “რუბ ელ ხალი”
  • Georgian: “რუბ-ალ-ხალი”
  • Georgian: “რუბ-ელ-ხალი”
  • German: “Große Arabische Wüste”
  • German: “Rub al-Chali”
  • German: “Rub al-Khali”
  • Greek: “Ρουμπ αλ Κάλι”
  • Hebrew: “א-רובע אל-ח’אלי”
  • Hebrew: “הרובע הריק”
  • Hindi: “रब अल खाली”
  • Hindi: “रब अल-खाली”
  • Hindi: “रुब अल खाली”
  • Hindi: “रुब अल ख़ाली”
  • Hindi: “रुब अल-खाली”
  • Hindi: “रुब अल-ख़ाली”
  • Hindi: “रूब अल-खाली”
  • Hindi: “रूब अल-ख़ाली”
  • Hungarian: “Rab-el-Háli”
  • Icelandic: “Rub‘ al Khali eyðimörkin”
  • Icelandic: “Rub’ al Khali eyðimörkin”
  • Indonesian: “Rub‘ al Khali”
  • Indonesian: “Rub’ al Khali”
  • Indonesian: “Rub‘ Al-Khali”
  • Italian: “Rub‘ al Khali”
  • Italian: “Rub‘ al-Khali”
  • Italian: “Rub’ al-Khali”
  • Japanese: “ルブアルハリ砂漠”
  • Kirghiz: “Руб-эль-Хали”
  • Korean: “룹 알 할리”
  • Korean: “룹알할리 사막”
  • Latvian: “Rubelhālī”
  • Lithuanian: “Rub al Chalis”
  • Lithuanian: “Rub el Chalis”
  • Lithuanian: “Rub el Halis”
  • Macedonian: “Руб ел Хали”
  • Malayalam: “Empty Quarter”
  • Malayalam: “Rub‘ al Khali”
  • Malayalam: “റബി അൽ ഖാലി”
  • Malayalam: “റബിഅ് അൽ ഖാലി”
  • Malayalam: “റാബിഅ് അൽ ഖാലി”
  • Malayalam: “റുബഉൽ ഖാലി”
  • Mazanderani: “ربع الخالي”
  • Mazanderani: “ربع الخالی”
  • Northern Frisian: “Rub al-Khali”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ar Rub al Khali”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ar Rub al-Khali”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Rub al Khali”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Rub al-Khali”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Rub‘ al Khali”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Rub‘ al-Khali”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Rub‘ al Khali”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Rub’ al Khali”
  • Norwegian: “Rub al Khali”
  • Persian: “ربع الخالی”
  • Persian: “ربع‌الخالی”
  • Polish: “Ar-Rab al-Chali”
  • Polish: “Ar-Rub al-Chali”
  • Polish: “Ar-Rub al-Khali”
  • Polish: “Pusty kwartał”
  • Polish: “Pustynia Ar-Rub al-Khali”
  • Polish: “Rub al-Chali”
  • Portuguese: “Rub‘ al-Khali”
  • Portuguese: “Rub‘ al-Khālī”
  • Portuguese: “Rub’ al-Khali”
  • Pushto: “څلورمه تشه سارا”
  • Pushto: “ربع الخالي”
  • Pushto: “ربع الخالی”
  • Pushto: “ربع‌الخالي”
  • Romanian: “Rub al-Chali”
  • Romanian: “Rub al-Khali”
  • Russian: “Руб аль-Хали”
  • Russian: “Руб-Аль-Хали”
  • Russian: “Руб-эль-Хали”
  • Scots: “Rub‘ al Khali”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Rub‘ al Khali”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Rub’ al Khali”
  • Serbian: “Руб ел Хали”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Rub‘ al Khali”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Rub’ al Khali”
  • Slovak: “Ar-Rub’ al-Chálí”
  • Slovenian: “Rub al-Hali”
  • Spanish: “Desierto de Rub al-Jali”
  • Spanish: “Desierto de Rub al-Khali”
  • Spanish: “Desierto de Rub‘ al Khali”
  • Spanish: “Rub al Jali”
  • Spanish: “Rub al-Jali”
  • Spanish: “Rub‘ al Khali”
  • Swedish: “al-Rub al-Khali”
  • Swedish: “ar-Rub al-Khali”
  • Swedish: “Ar-Ruba‘ al-Khali”
  • Swedish: “Rub al-Khali”
  • Swedish: “Rub Khali”
  • Swedish: “Rub‘ al-Khali”
  • Tamil: “ரப் அல் காலி”
  • Tamil: “றுப்உல் காலீ”
  • Thai: “รุบอุลคอลี”
  • Turkish: “Rubülhali Çölü”
  • Ukrainian: “Руб-ель-Халі”
  • Urdu: “الربع الخالی”
  • Urdu: “ربع الخالی”
  • Uzbek: “Rubʼ ul-xoli”
  • Vietnamese: “Rub‘ al Khali”
  • Vietnamese: “Rub’ al Khali”
  • Western Panjabi: “الربع الخالی”
  • Wu Chinese: “鲁卜哈利沙漠”

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