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The Nafud desert or simply The Nafud (Arabic: صحراء النفود, romanized: ṣahrā' an-nafūd) is a desert in the northern part of the Arabian Peninsula at , occupying a great oval depression. It is 290 kilometres (180 mi) long and 225 kilometres (140 mi) wide, with an area of 103,600 square kilometres (40,000 sq mi).
A long, narrow strip of desert known as Ad Dahna separates Najd from eastern Arabia, which slopes eastward to the sandy coast along the Persian Gulf. North of Najd a larger desert, An Nafud, isolates the heart of the peninsula from the steppes of northern Arabia. South of Najd lies one of the largest sand deserts in the world, the Rub al Khali.
It is the largest city on the Arabian Peninsula, and is situated in the center of the an-Nafud desert, on the eastern part of the Najd plateau. The city sits at an average of 600 meters (2,000 ft) above sea level, [ 7 ] and receives around 5 million tourists each year, making it the forty-ninth most visited city in the world and the 6th in the ...
A corridor of sandy terrain known as the Ad-Dahna desert connects the An-Nafud desert (65,000 km 2 or 40,389 square miles) in the north of Saudi Arabia to the Rub' al-Khali in the south-east. [citation needed] The Tuwaiq escarpment is an 800 km (500 mi) arc that includes limestone cliffs, plateaus, and canyons.
Satellite view of Al-Dahna desert A caravan in Ad-Dahnā'. Ad-Dahna Desert is the central division of the Arabian Desert. [1] It is a corridor of sandy terrain forming a bow-like shape that connects an-Nafud desert in the north to Rub' al-Khali desert in the south.
Satellite images released by NASA show pockets of plant life popping up all over the Sahara Desert after an extratropical cyclone drenched a large swath of northwestern Africa on Sept. 7 and Sept. 8.
A man planning a camping trip using Google Maps ran across a uniquely curved spherical pit in Quebec. It may be an ancient asteroid impact crater. A Camper Was Playing With Google Maps—and ...
Tayma / ˈ t eɪ m ə / (Taymanitic: 𐪉𐪃𐪒, TMʾ, vocalized as: Taymāʾ; [1] Arabic: تيماء, romanized: Taymāʾ) or Tema (Hebrew: תֵּימָן Tēmān (Habakkuk 3:3)) is a large oasis with a long history of settlement, located in northwestern Saudi Arabia at the point where the trade route between Medina and Dumah begins to cross the Nafud desert.