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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

  • This large African desert is home to 2 million people, about as many as Utah
  • The southern part of Africa is often called "Sub-" this 3 1/2-million-square-mile area
  • It is said that the yellow on Chad's flag represents the sun & this desert
  • The name of this, the world's largest desert, means "desert"
  • Libya's arid climate is made worse by the ghibli, a crop-destroying wind from this desert
  • This desert extends more than 3,500 miles across northern Africa from the Atlantic to the Red Sea
  • The 200,000-square-mile Libyan Erg is the largest area of sand dunes in this desert
  • In Egypt & Algeria, some areas of this desert are below sea level
  • More than 80% of Algeria is covered by this desert
  • In the late 1790s Friedrich Hornemann became the first modern European to cross this desert
  • At over 3,500,000 square miles, this desert covers an area larger than Australia
  • This desert in North Africa is the largest in the world
  • Timbuktu in Mali was once a major caravan center for those crossing this desert
  • Holy jumpin' cats! Here's an African sand cat squaring off with a sand viper in this 3-million-square-mile sandpile
  • A 3.5-million-square-mile land area between the Atlantic Ocean & the Red Sea
  • The Libyan desert is actually the northeastern portion of this much larger desert
  • Contrary to popular belief, this largest desert is only 30% sand; 70% is gravelly plains & rocky plateaus
  • From 1869 to 1874 Gustav Nachtigal explored this desert, becoming the first to cross from Lake Chad to the White Nile
  • Occupied by Morocco, the area now called "Western" this was formerly "Spanish" this
  • In 1855 Heinrich Barth compiled African vocabularies while crossing this 3.5 million-square-mile area
  • Snow sometimes covers the peaks in the Ahaggar Mountains, which are in the center of this desert
  • Egypt's Qattara depression is the lowest point in this largest desert
  • The Air Massif, rising from this desert in Niger
  • The river known as the "Great Man-Made River" in Libya reaches into this desert
  • Where the tropic crosses Africa, it's mainly this desert
  • At 3 1/2 million square miles, this largest desert could just about cover the United States
  • A dry Sirocco is a warm wind that carries particles of sand from this African desert across the Mediterranean
  • The Maghreb is a fertine green region of Africa separated from the rest of the continent by this 3-mil.-sq.-mi. area
  • Not Rommel's but Ruppell's sand fox lives in this desert
  • The Club Bingo went bye-bye back in '52 when this desert-named hotel replaced it
  • Alexine Tinne's 1869 attempt to cross this desert ended when she was killed by her Tuareg guides
  • The moguls proved their patriotism with movies like this one, in which Bogey battles Germans in the title desert
  • This geographic area is estimated to generate more than 60% of the Earth's airborne dust

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