Which desert is also known as the Badiyat al-Sham?

The desert also known as Badiyat al-Sham is the Syrian Desert.

The Syrian Desert, or Bādiyat Ash-Shām, is a broad region of desert, semi-desert, and steppe in West Asia. Despite its name, it extends well beyond Syria, covering parts of Jordan, Iraq, and northern Saudi Arabia. It occupies roughly 500,000 square kilometres and is also called the North Arabian Desert, Syrian Steppe, Jordanian Steppe, or Badiya.

Much of the landscape consists of open rocky or gravelly desert pavement rather than towering sand dunes. Dry riverbeds, known as wadis, cut through the terrain, while volcanic fields mark parts of its western edge. The Euphrates forms a major boundary to the east, and the region merges southward into the wider deserts of the Arabian Peninsula.

A common mistake is to treat “Syrian Desert” as a political description limited to Syria. The name refers to a geographic region crossing modern borders. It can also be confused with the Negev, Sinai, or Nubian deserts, but Badiyat al-Sham specifically identifies this North Arabian steppe-and-desert zone.