Mojave Desert

The Mojave Desert is a desert in the rain shadow of the southern mountains and Transverse Ranges in the Southwestern United States. Named after the indigenous Mohave people, it is located primarily in southeastern California and southwestern , with small portions extending into and .
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  • Type: Desert
  • Description: desert in southwestern United States
  • Also known as: “Amacabos”, “Amacava”, “Amachaves*”, “Amaguaguas”, “Amahuayas”, “Amajabas”, “Amajavas”, “Amochave*”, “Amohah*”, “Amojaves”, “Amoxami”, “Amoxawi”, “Amuchaba”, “Dilzhay”, “Hamochkhaves”, “Hamoekhave*”, “Hamokaba*”, “Hamokavi”, “Hamokeavi”, “Hamukahava”, “Hardilzhay”, “Hatilshe*”, “Hukwats*”, “Jamajabas”, “Jamajabs”, “Jamajas”, “Jamalas”, “Machaves*”, “Machavis*”, “Macjave”, “Mahaos*”, “Majabos”, “Majave”, “Mohahve”, “Mohavi”, “Mohawa”, “Mohawe”, “Mojaoes”, “Mojaris”, “Mojaur”, “Mojave”, “Mokhabas”, “Molxaves”, “Moyave”, “Naksat*”, “Soyopas”, “Tamajabs”, “Tamasabes”, “Tamasabs”, “Tzinamaa”, “Wa makava”, “Wah muk a hah’ve”, “Wibukapa”, “Wili idahape*”, “Yamagas*”, “Yamajab”, and “Yamaya”
  • Address: CA

Mojave Desert

Latitude
35.4167° or 35° 24′ 60″ north
Longitude
-115.5842° or 115° 35′ 3″ west
Elevation
4,308 feet (1,313 metres)
Open location code
8576CC88+M8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 369165244
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­desert
Geo­Names ID
5373972
Wiki­data ID
Q184355
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Mojave Desert” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “الصحراء العالية”
  • Arabic: “صحراء موجيف”
  • Arabic: “صحراء موهافا”
  • Arabic: “صحراء موهافي”
  • Arabic: “صحراء موييف”
  • Armenian: “Մոհավի (անապատ)”
  • Armenian: “Մոհավի”
  • Azerbaijani: “Moxave”
  • Basque: “Mojave”
  • Belarusian: “Махавэ”
  • Bengali: “মোহাভি মরুভূমি”
  • Breton: “Dezerzh Mojave”
  • Bulgarian: “Мохаве”
  • Catalan: “desert de Mojave”
  • Catalan: “Desert de Mojave”
  • Catalan: “Desert del Mojave”
  • Catalan: “Hayikwiir Mat’aar”
  • Cebuano: “Mojave Desert”
  • Central Kurdish: “بیابانی مۆجاڤی”
  • Chinese: “莫哈維沙漠”
  • Chinese: “莫哈韋沙漠”
  • Chinese: “莫哈韦沙漠”
  • Czech: “Mohavská poušť”
  • Danish: “Mojave Desert”
  • Danish: “Mojave-ørkenen”
  • Danish: “Mojaveørkenen”
  • Dutch: “Mohave Desert”
  • Dutch: “Mohavewoestijn”
  • Dutch: “Mojave desert”
  • Dutch: “Mojavewoestijn”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “صحرا موهافى”
  • Esperanto: “Mohave-dezerto”
  • Esperanto: “Mohave”
  • Esperanto: “Mojave-Dezerto”
  • Estonian: “Mojave kõrb”
  • Finnish: “Mohaven aavikko”
  • Finnish: “Mojave”
  • Finnish: “Mojaven aavikko”
  • Finnish: “Mojaven autiomaa”
  • French: “Désert de Mohave”
  • French: “Désert de Mojave”
  • French: “Desert des Mojaves”
  • French: “désert des Mojaves”
  • French: “Désert des Mojaves”
  • French: “Désert du Mojave”
  • French: “Désert Mojave”
  • Georgian: “მოხავეს უდაბნო”
  • Georgian: “მოჰავეს უდაბნო”
  • German: “Mohave-Wüste”
  • German: “Mohavská poušť”
  • German: “Mojave-Wüste”
  • German: “Mojavewüste”
  • Greek: “έρημος Μοχάβε”
  • Greek: “Έρημος Μοχάβι”
  • Greek: “Μοχάβι”
  • Hebrew: “מדבר מוהאבי”
  • Hindi: “मोज़ाबे मरुस्थल”
  • Hindi: “मोहावी मरुस्थल”
  • Hungarian: “Mojave-sivatag”
  • Indonesian: “Gurun Mojave”
  • Indonesian: “Gurun Nevada”
  • Irish: “Gaineamhlach Mojave”
  • Italian: “deserto del Mojave”
  • Italian: “Deserto del Mojave”
  • Italian: “Deserto di Mojave”
  • Japanese: “モハーヴェ砂漠”
  • Japanese: “モハービ砂漠”
  • Japanese: “モハーベ砂漠”
  • Japanese: “モハベ砂漠”
  • Kannada: “ಮೊಜಾವೆ ಮರುಭೂಮಿ”
  • Kazakh: “Moxave şöli”
  • Kazakh: “Мохаве шөлі”
  • Kazakh: “موحاۆە ٴشولى”
  • Kirghiz: “Мохаве”
  • Korean: “모하비 사막”
  • Korean: “모하비사막”
  • Latvian: “Mohaves tuksnesis”
  • Lithuanian: “Mohavės dykuma”
  • Lithuanian: “Mohavio dykuma”
  • Lithuanian: “Mohavių dykuma”
  • Lithuanian: “Mojave dykuma”
  • Macedonian: “Мохаве”
  • Malay: “Gurun Mojave”
  • Malayalam: “മൊജാവെ മരുഭൂമി”
  • Malayalam: “മൊഹാവി മരുഭൂമി”
  • Northern Frisian: “Mohave Wüüst”
  • Northern Frisian: “Mojave Wüüst”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mohaveørkenen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mojave”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mojaveørkenen”
  • Norwegian: “Mojaveørkenen”
  • Panjabi: “ਮੋਹਾਵੇ ਮਾਰੂਥਲ”
  • Persian: “بیابان موهاوه”
  • Persian: “بیابان موهاوی”
  • Persian: “صحرای موجاوه”
  • Persian: “صحرای موهاوی”
  • Polish: “Mojave”
  • Portuguese: “Deserto de Mojave”
  • Portuguese: “Deserto do Mojave”
  • Romanian: “Deșertul Mojave”
  • Russian: “Мохава”
  • Russian: “Мохаве”
  • Russian: “Пустыня Мохаве”
  • Scots: “Anialwch Mojave”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Fàsach Mhojave”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Fàsach Mojave”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Mojave Desert”
  • Slovak: “Hayikwiir Mat’aar”
  • Slovak: “Mohavská púšť”
  • Slovenian: “Mojave Desert”
  • Slovenian: “puščava Mojave”
  • Spanish: “Desierto de Mojave”
  • Swahili: “Jangwa la Mojave”
  • Swedish: “Mojaveöknen”
  • Swedish: “Nevadaöknen”
  • Tamil: “மொகாவி பாலைவனம்”
  • Thai: “ทะเลทรายโมฮาวี”
  • Turkish: “Mojave Çölü”
  • Ukrainian: “Мохаве”
  • Urdu: “صحرائے موجاو”
  • Vietnamese: “hoang mạc Mojave”
  • Vietnamese: “Hoang mạc Mojave”
  • Vietnamese: “Mojave”
  • Vietnamese: “sa mạc Mojave”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Disyerto Mojave”
  • Welsh: “Anialwch Mojave”
  • Western Panjabi: “موجاو”
  • Wu Chinese: “莫哈韦沙漠”
  • Yoruba: “Mojave Desert”
  • Yue Chinese: “莫哈韋沙漠”

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