The Syrian Desert, also known as the North Arabian Desert, the Jordanian steppe, or the Badiya, is a region of desert, semi-desert and steppe covering 500,000 square kilometers of the Middle East, including parts of southern Syria, eastern Jordan, northern Saudi Arabia, and western Iraq. It accounts for 85% of the land area of Jordan and 55% of Syria. To the south it borders and merges into the Arabian Desert. The land is open, rocky or gravelly desert pavement, cut with occasional wadis.
Palmyra was an important trading center located in the Syrian desert
View of the Syrian Desert
Desert around Palmyra
Resafa ruins southwest of Raqqa and the Euphrates.
In physical geography, a steppe is an ecoregion characterized by grassland plains without closed forests except near rivers and lakes.
Steppe biomes may include:the montane grasslands and shrublands biome
the tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biome
the temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biome
Steppe in Mongolia
Steppe in Kazakhstan
Steppe in Turkey
Steppe in Russia