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Algeria map of Köppen climate classification zones Satellite map of Algeria Shaded relief map of Algeria with settlements and roads. Algeria comprises 2,381,740 square kilometres (919,590 sq mi) of land, more than 80% of which is desert, in North Africa, between Morocco and Tunisia. [2] [1] It is the largest country in Africa. [1]
The Algerian Desert (Arabic: الصحراء الجزائرية, romanized: al-Saḥrā' al-Jazā'iriyah) is a desert located in central North Africa within Algeria, constituting part of the Sahara. The desert covers more than 90% of Algeria's total area. [ 1 ]
Africa. Sahara Desert; North Africa. Maghreb; West Africa; Time zone: West Africa Time ; Extreme points of Algeria. High: Mount Tahat 3,003 m (9,852 ft) Low: Chott Melrhir −40 m (−131 ft) Land boundaries: 6,343 km Libya 982 km Tunisia 965 km Morocco 1,608 km Western Sahara 41 km Mauritania 463 km Mali 1,376 km Niger 956 km. Coastline: 998 km
This is a list of the largest deserts in the world by area. It includes all deserts above 50,000 km 2 (19,300 sq mi). Some of Earth 's biggest non-polar deserts
Satellite view of Africa 1916 physical map of Africa. The average elevation of the continent approximates closely to 600 m (2,000 ft) above sea level, roughly near to the mean elevation of both North and South America, but considerably less than that of Asia, 950 m (3,120 ft). In contrast with other continents, it is marked by the comparatively ...
The Sahara (/ s ə ˈ h ɑːr ə /, / s ə ˈ h ær ə /) is a desert spanning across North Africa.With an area of 9,200,000 square kilometres (3,600,000 sq mi), it is the largest hot desert in the world and the third-largest desert overall, smaller only than the deserts of Antarctica and the northern Arctic.
Deserts of South Africa (2 C, 3 P) Deserts of Sudan (4 P) This page was last edited on 25 October 2019, at 21:51 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
In classical antiquity, Africa (also Libya) was assumed to cover the quarter of the globe south of the Mediterranean, an arrangement that was adhered to in medieval T and O maps. The only part of Africa well known in antiquity was the coast of North Africa, described in Greek periplus from the 6th century BC.