Which country contains the Great Victoria Desert, the largest desert within its borders, sprawling across an arid interior far from coastal rain belts?​

• Hint: This desert shares its continent with Mediterranean‑climate cities along the edges, but the interior’s low rainfall and temperature extremes define a different world.​
  The name honors a British monarch, reflecting historical naming practices during exploration as cartographers labeled vast, sparsely populated expanses.​
  Knowing which side of the continent holds the densest settlement helps orient where the largest interior arid zone actually lies.​