Kyzylkum Desert

The Kyzylkum Desert is the 15th largest desert in the world. Its name means 'Red Sand' in Turkic languages. It is located in , in the land between the confluent rivers Amu Darya and , a region historically known as Transoxania.
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Latitude
42.34241° or 42° 20′ 33″ north
Longitude
63.8527° or 63° 51′ 10″ east
Open location code
8JJ58VR3+X3
Open­Street­Map ID
way 232927609
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­sand
Wiki­data ID
Q184364

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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Kyzylkum Desert” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Këzël Kumi”
  • Albanian: “Kizil Kumi”
  • Arabic: “قيزيل قوم”
  • Armenian: “Կըզլկում”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qızılqum”
  • Bashkir: “Ҡыҙылҡом”
  • Basque: “Kizilkum”
  • Basque: “Kyzyl Kum”
  • Belarusian: “Кызылкум”
  • Bengali: “কিজিলকুম মরুভূমি”
  • Bulgarian: “Къзълкум”
  • Catalan: “Desert de Kyzyl Kum”
  • Catalan: “Desert Kyzyl Kum”
  • Catalan: “Khizilkhum”
  • Catalan: “Kizil-Kum”
  • Catalan: “Kyzyl Kum”
  • Chinese: “克孜勒库姆沙漠”
  • Chinese: “克孜勒庫姆沙漠”
  • Croatian: “Kizilkum”
  • Czech: “Ķizilķum”
  • Czech: “Kyzylkum”
  • Dutch: “Kyzylkoem”
  • Dutch: “Kyzylkum”
  • Dutch: “Kyzylkumwoestijn”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “قيزيل قوم”
  • Esperanto: “Kizilkumo”
  • Estonian: “Kõzõlkum”
  • Finnish: “Keski-Aasian pohjoinen aavikko”
  • Finnish: “Kisil-Kum”
  • Finnish: “Kyzyl Kum”
  • Finnish: “Qyzyl Qum”
  • French: “Désert du Kyzylkoum”
  • French: “Kizil-Koum”
  • French: “Kizyl Koum”
  • French: “Kyzyl-Koum”
  • Georgian: “ყიზილყუმი”
  • German: “Kisilkum”
  • German: “Kizilkum”
  • German: “Kysilkum”
  • German: “Kysylkum”
  • Greek: “Κιζίλ Κουμ”
  • Hebrew: “מדבר קיזילקום”
  • Hebrew: “קיזיל קום”
  • Hindi: “किज़िल कुम रेगिस्तान”
  • Hindi: “किज़िल कुम”
  • Hungarian: “Kizil Kum sivatag”
  • Hungarian: “Kizil-kum”
  • Indonesian: “Gurun Kyzylkum”
  • Italian: “Deserto del Kizilkum”
  • Italian: “Deserto di Kyzylkum”
  • Italian: “Kizilkum”
  • Italian: “Kyzyl Kum”
  • Japanese: “キジル・クム砂漠”
  • Kannada: “ಕೈಜಿಲ್ ಕಮ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Qızılqum sho’listanı”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Qızılqum”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Къызылкъум”
  • Kazakh: “Qızılqum”
  • Kazakh: “Қызылқұм”
  • Kazakh: “قىزىلقۇم”
  • Kirghiz: “Кызыл-Кум чөлү”
  • Korean: “키질쿰 사막”
  • Lak: “Къизил-къум”
  • Latin: “Kyzylkum”
  • Latvian: “Kizilkums”
  • Lithuanian: “Kyzilkumų dykuma”
  • Lithuanian: “Kyzylkumai”
  • Lithuanian: “Kyzylkumas”
  • Lithuanian: “Kyzylkumų dykuma”
  • Macedonian: “Кизилкум”
  • Malay: “Gurun Kyzylkum”
  • Malayalam: “കിസിൽ കും”
  • Malayalam: “ക്വിസിൽക്വും”
  • Mazanderani: “قزل قوم”
  • Mongolian: “Кызылкум”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kysylkum”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kysyl Kum”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kysylkum-ørkenen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kyzyl Kum”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Qizilqum”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Qyzylqum”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kyzyl Kum”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Qizilqum”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Qyzylqum”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Қызылқұм”
  • Norwegian: “Kysylkum”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Kyzyl Kum”
  • Panjabi: “ਕਿਜ਼ਿਲ ਕੁਮ ਮਾਰੂਥਲ”
  • Persian: “قزل‌قوم”
  • Persian: “قیزیل قوم”
  • Polish: “Kyzył-kum”
  • Portuguese: “Kyzyl Kum”
  • Portuguese: “Quizilcum”
  • Romanian: “Deșertul Kîzîlkum”
  • Russian: “Кызыл-Кум”
  • Russian: “Кызылкумы”
  • Russian: “Пустыня Кызыл-Кум”
  • Scots: “Kyzyl Kum”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Kyzyl Kum”
  • Serbian: “Kizil Kum”
  • Serbian: “Кизил Кум”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kizilkum”
  • Sindhi: “قزلقم ريگستان”
  • Slovak: “Kyzylkum”
  • Slovenian: “Kizilkum”
  • Spanish: “Kizilkum”
  • Spanish: “Kyzyl Kum”
  • Swedish: “Kyzul kum”
  • Swedish: “Kyzyl Kum”
  • Swedish: “Kyzylkumöknen”
  • Swedish: “Qizilqum”
  • Swedish: “Qyzylqum”
  • Tamil: “கிசில்கும் பாலைவனம்”
  • Telugu: “కిజిల్‌కుమ్ ఎడారి”
  • Turkish: “Kızıl Kum Çölü”
  • Ukrainian: “Кизилкум”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Kizilkum”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Kyzylkum”
  • Urdu: “کزل کم کا صحرا”
  • Uzbek: “Qizilqum”
  • Vietnamese: “Sa mạc Kyzylkum”
  • Western Frisian: “Kyzylkum”
  • Western Panjabi: “قزل قم”
  • Wu Chinese: “克孜勒库姆沙漠”

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