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Dasht-e Kavir

Dasht-e Kavir, also known as Kavir-e Namak or Great Salt Desert, is a large desert lying in the middle of the Iranian Plateau. It is about 800 km long and 320 km wide. The area of this desert stretches from the Alborz mountain range in the north-west to the Dasht-e Lut (“Emptyness Desert”) in the south-east and is partitioned between the Iranian provinces of Khorasan, Semnan, Tehran, Isfahan and Yazd. It is named after the salt marshes (kavirs) located there.