Today, we're taking you to a part of this region called the Rub al-Khali Desert, literally a desert within a desert.
今天,我们带您前往该地区的鲁卜哈利沙漠——沙漠中的一片沙漠。
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The British explorer Wilfred Thesiger crossed it in the mid-20th century and he said it was named Rub al-Khali or " Empty Quarter" because it's so enormous and so desolate.
The Rub' al Khali (Arabic:الربع الخاليar-Rubʿ al-Ḫālī, "Empty Quarter") is the largest contiguous sand desert (erg) in the world, encompassing most of the southern third of the Arabian Peninsula. The desert covers some 650,000 square kilometres (250,000sqmi) (the area between long. 44°30′−56°30′E, and lat. 16°30′−23°00′N) including parts of Saudi Arabia, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. It is part of the larger Arabian Desert.