By GreaterGo Editor / 28 Apr 2025
In Arabic, Rub' al Khali means “the Empty Quarter”. The Rub' al Khali desert is the world’s largest continuous sand desert, covering an area of 650,000km2. The desert takes up a quarter of the Arabian Peninsula. The highest sand dune in the desert stands 300m tall. People seldom visit the Rub' al Khali desert - even the Bedouins, who used to inhabit the desert regions. They call the Rub' al Khali desert “the Sands”.