The Kyzyl
Kum, also called Qyzylqum,
is the 11th largest desert
in the world. Its name means Red Sand in Uzbek
and Turkish. It is located in Central Asia
in the doab between the rivers Amu Darya
and Syr Darya, and is divided between Kazakhstan,
Uzbekistan
and (partly) Turkmenistan. It covers about approximately
115,000 square miles.
Desert fauna includes the occasional winter migrants in the northern part
of the desert - the Saiga antelope, and the Desert or Transcaspian
(Varanus griseus)
monitor, which is a large lizard that can 
grow to up to 5 feet in length. There is
the Kyzyl Kum nature
reserve in Bukhara Province, founded in 1971. The area of
the reserve amounts to approximately 39,000 square miles and it is located on floodlands (Tugai) that drain
into the
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