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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.
The Sahara Desert is the world's largest hot, non-polar desert and is located in North Africa. It extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Red Sea in the east, and from the Mediterranean Sea in the north to the Sahel savanna in the south. [2] The vast desert encompasses several ecologically distinct regions.
Location [note 1] Nation(s) 1: Antarctic Desert: Polar ice and tundra ... Morocco, the Niger, the Sudan, Tunisia, and Western Sahara: 4: Arabian Desert: Subtropical
The North African town of Ouargla, Algeria, which is located in the Sahara Desert, just experienced temperatures of 124 F, or 51 C, which may be the highest ever recorded on the continent.. The ...
The Eastern Desert (known archaically as Arabia or the Arabian Desert [1] [2]) is the part of the Sahara Desert that is located east of the Nile River.It spans 223,000 square kilometres (86,000 sq mi) of northeastern Africa and is bordered by the Gulf of Suez and the Red Sea to the east, and the Nile River to the west.
Climate scientists used models to show historic intervals of a green, vegetated Sahara Desert that occur every 21,000 years. The Sahara Desert—Yes, That One—Remarkably Grows Green Every 21,000 ...
The Sahara Desert in North Africa is the largest hot desert in the world and is one of the hottest, driest and sunniest places on Earth. Located just south of the Sahara is a narrow semi-desert steppe (a semi-arid region) called the Sahel , while Africa's most southern areas contain both savanna plains , and its central portion, including the ...
(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 ...