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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.
Libyan Desert (also called Western Desert) – a desert covering eastern Libya, western Egypt and northwestern Sudan at the west of the Nile River. White Desert – a desert covering a part of western Egypt and located in Farafra, Egypt; Eastern Desert – a desert covering eastern Egypt and northeastern Sudan between the Nile River and the Red Sea
Antarctic Desert: Polar ice and tundra: 14,200,000 [1] 5,482,651: Antarctica: N/A 2: Arctic Desert: Polar ice and tundra ... Eastern Europe Northern America Northern Asia
Quarrying expeditions to the Eastern Desert are recorded from the second millennia BCE, where the wadi has exposed Precambrian rocks of the Arabian-Nubian Shield. These include Basalts, schists, bekhen-stone (an especially prized green metagraywacke sandstone used for bowls, palettes, statues, and sarcophagi) [3] and gold-containing quartz. [4]
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 haul was discovered hidden in a shipment of construction vehicles at the Omari crossing in Jordan's eastern desert before it was due to enter Saudi Arabia, officials told Reuters on Wednesday.
1.5.6 Red Sea and Eastern Desert. 2 List by areas and time. Toggle List by areas and time subsection. 2.1 Western Desert. 2.2 Alexandria. 2.3 Rosetta. 2.4 Damietta.
Gabal Sha'ib El Banat is the highest peak of the Eastern Desert mountain range, and is the highest peak of mainland Egypt (excluding the Sinai Peninsula and therefore Mount Catherine). Peaks [ edit ]