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Northern Sudan –lying between the Egyptian border and Sennar– has two distinct parts, the desert and the Nile Valley. [1] To the east of the Nile is the Nubian Desert and to the west, the Libyan Desert. [1] Both are stony, with sandy dunes drifting over the landscape. [1] There is virtually no rainfall in these deserts. [1]
The Cairo–Cape Town Highway passes through the Nubian Desert. The largest city of the Nubian Desert is Port Sudan, at the eastern end of the desert on the Red Sea. Other important cities of the Nubian Desert are Atbara on the river of the same name and Massawa on the Red Sea. The town of Abidiya is on the Nile river.
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The Red Sea coastal desert extends north and south along the Red Sea and Gulf of Suez, which bound it on the east.It includes both a narrow coastal strip and the Red Sea Hills, a range of coastal mountains that runs parallel to the coast.
Sahara Desert – Africa's largest desert and the world's largest hot desert which covers much of North Africa comprising: Ténéré – a desert covering northeastern Niger and western Chad Sahara Desert; Tanezrouft – a desert covering northern Mali, northwestern Niger as well as central and southern Algeria, at the west of the Hoggar Mountains
A desert is a landscape where little precipitation occurs and, consequently, living conditions create unique biomes and ecosystems. The lack of vegetation exposes the unprotected surface of the ground to denudation .
The Sudd stretches from Mongalla to just outside the Sobat River confluence with the White Nile just upstream of Malakal as well as westwards along the Bahr el Ghazal.The shallow and flat inland delta lies between 5.5 and 9.5 degrees latitude north and covers an area of 500 kilometres (310 mi) south to north and 200 kilometres (120 mi) east to west between Mongalla in the south and Malakal in ...