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Aug 12, 2019 · The Sahara Desert is located in the northern portion of Africa and covers over 3,500,000 square miles (9,000,000 sq km) or roughly 10% of the continent. It is bounded in the east by the Red Sea and it stretches west to the Atlantic Ocean.
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The Sahara, located in Northern Africa, is the world's largest hot desert and second largest desert after Antarctica at over 3.5 million square miles (9 million square kilometers). Almost as large as the United States, it crosses the borders of 11 nations.
Jun 16, 2023 · Where is the Sahara Desert Located? The Sahara Desert is located in North Africa. It covers parts of Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Western Sahara, Sudan and Tunisia. The map below shows the location of the Sahara Desert. You can't miss it: it's the huge expanse of yellow that covers most of the top of Africa!
Sahara is the World's largest and most extensive hot desert located in North Africa. Sahara desert holds very versatile features of the land that has been shaped by wind over time such as mountains, sand-dunes (erg), plateaus, barren stone plateaus (hamada), sand seas called ergs, sand-and gravel-covered plains (reg), basins, salt flats, dry ...
Sahel means "edge of the desert” in Arabic. This portion of semi-arid land stretches across Africa south of the Sahara Desert. Historically, people who lived here practiced sustenance (or subsistence) agriculture, but it had experienced bouts of drought that started in 1968. 1. Burkina Faso.
Apr 25, 2017 · The Atacama Desert is one of the most notable deserts in South America occupying parts of Peru and Chile. It is an arid plateau, stretching along a length of 1,000 km on the coast of the Pacific Ocean located to the west of the Andes mountains.
Aug 1, 2017 · The hottest desert in the world, the Sahara Desert, stretches across most parts of North Africa with the exception of the narrow fertile strip of land on the Mediterranean Coast. The desert stretches from the coast of the Red Sea in the east to the Atlantic Ocean coast in the west.