sahara desert

     

The Sahara (Arabic: الصَحراء الكُبرى‎, aṣ-ṣaḥrā´ al-koubra, "The Great Desert") is the worl's largest hot desert and the world's second largest desert after Antarctica . At over 9,000,000 square kilometres (3,500,000 sq mi), it covers most parts of Northern Africa; an area stretching from the Red Sea, including parts of the Mediterranean coasts, to the outskirts of the Atlantic Ocean. To the south, it is delimited by the Sahel, a belt of semi-arid tropical savanna separating the Sahara from Sub-Saharan Africa.

Trivia about sahara desert

  • Rolling grassland covers much of the southern half of Mali; this desert, the northern half
  • The highest sand dunes in the world are in this, the world's largest desert
  • M'zab, Tanezrouft & Suf are regions of this desert in Algeria
  • Ironically, an "aquatic civilization" has been unearthed in this area that covers much of North Africa
  • A 1968 drought was so bad that this geographic feature advanced 60 miles into the semiarid area called the Sahel
  • About 3,000 miles wide, its name is from the Arabic for "desert"
  • To trek on foot from Lagos to Algiers, you'll have to cross this 3.5 million-square-mile area

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