<Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Syrian Desert on a topographic map </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Country </Th> <Td> Syria Iraq Jordan </Td> </Tr> <P> The Syrian Desert (Arabic: بادية الشام ‎, Bâdiyat aş - Şâm), also known as the Hamad, is a combination of steppe and desert covering 500,000 square kilometers (200,000 square miles) of the Middle East, including parts of south - eastern Syria, northeastern Jordan, northern Saudi Arabia, and western Iraq . To the south it borders and merges into the Arabian Desert . The land is open, gravely desert pavement, cut with occasional wadis . </P> <P> The desert is bounded by the Orontes Valley and volcanic field of Harrat al - Shamah to the west, and by the Euphrates to the east . In the north, the desert gives way to the more fertile areas of grass, and the south it runs into the deserts of the southern Arabian Peninsula . </P>

Where is the syrian desert located on a map