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The Sahara is the largest hot desert and the second largest desert on Earth by area after the Antarctic Desert. It is located in the north of the African continent. It stretches about 3,000 miles (4,800 km) from west to east and 500 miles (800 km) to 750 miles (1,200 km) from north to south; it has an area of about 3,600,000 square miles (9,200,000 square kilometers).
Sahara, largest desert in the world. Filling nearly all of northern Africa, it measures approximately 3,000 miles (4,800 km) from east to west and between 800 to 1,200 miles from north to south and has a total area of some 3,320,000 square miles (8,600,000 square km).
Map showing the extent of the Sahara Desert in Africa. The Sahara Desert covers vast parts of 11 North African nations including Algeria, Egypt, Mali, Morocco, Western Sahara, Tunisia, Chad, Libya, Mauritania, Niger, and Sudan within its boundaries.
Explore Sahara Desert in Google Earth.
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. [1] [2] [3]
The world's largest hot desert, the Sahara Desert. The Sahara is the largest subtropical desert in the world, clocking in at 3.5 million square miles (9 million sq. km). Spanning eleven countries, it covers nearly an entire third of Africa.
The Sahara is the largest non-polar desert in the world. Covering approximately 3.5 million square miles (9,064,958 sq. km), it occupies land belonging to Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Western Sahara, Sudan, and Tunisia.
(CNN) — Striking images from the Sahara Desert show large lakes etched into rolling sand dunes after one of the most arid, barren places in the world was hit with its first floods in decades. The...
This satellite image allows us to see how vast an area the SAHARA DESERT covers in northern AFRICA. See the contrast between the tan coloration of the sandy desert with the green more verdant areas to its south!
The largest desert outside the polar regions is the Sahara Desert. It is a subtropical (hot) desert and thus it is the largest hot desert in the world. The table below provides a list of the 10 largest deserts in the world, along with their locations and approximate areas in square kilometers.