The Syrian Desert (Arabic: بادية الشام Bādiyat Ash-Shām), also known as the North Arabian Desert, [1] the Jordanian steppe, or the Badiya, [2] is a region of desert, semi-desert, and steppe, covering about 500,000 square kilometers (200,000 square miles) of West Asia, including parts of northern Saudi Arabia, eastern Jordan ...

Syrian Desert, arid wasteland of southwestern Asia, extending northward from the Arabian Peninsula over much of northern Saudi Arabia, eastern Jordan, southern Syria, and western Iraq.

The Mesopotamian shrub desert is an ecoregion of deserts and xeric shrublands located in Western Asia. It extends across portions of Israel, Jordan, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.

Al-Jazira is characterised as an outwash or alluvial plain, quite distinct from the Syrian Desert and lower-lying central Mesopotamia; however, the area includes eroded hills and incised streams. The region has several parts to it.

This ecoregion encompasses most of the Syrian Desert, also known as Badiyat ash Sham, stretching across East Jordan, southern Syria and western Iraq towards the foothills of the Zagros Mountains.

Mesopotamian deserts include the Syrian Desert and the Arabian Desert. How did irrigation help Mesopotamia's early settlers? Much of the land around the Tigris and Euphrates looks the same today as it did when the first settlers arrived 10,000 years ago.

Natural routes across northern Mesopotamia, along the Euphrates, across the central and southern Syrian Desert, into the interior of the Arabian Peninsula, through the Red Sea and up the GUlf of Aqaba, brought importance and commercial prosperity to a host of cities.

Both came into Syria from Mesopotamia via the Euphrates valley, where the ancient trading city of Aleppo grew up. One then ran through northern Syria to the coast, where Egyptian trading ships called at the ports of Ugarit and Byblos.

Ancient Mesopotamia is located within the Fertile Crescent, but the Crescent covers more geography than ancient Mesopotamia. Today, the Crescent includes such countries as Syria, Lebanon, Cyprus, Jordan, Palestine, Iraq, Kuwait, as …

Syria is contiguous with Mesopotamia. The area to the south of Syria but east of Palestina and the five kingdoms (Israel, Judah, Ammon, Moab, Edom) is Arabia. In ancient times the eastern desert was sometimes generally called Ammon.