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The Murzuq Desert, Idehan Murzuq, Idhan Murzuq, (also Murzaq, Murzuk, Marzuq and Murzak), is an erg in southwestern Libya with a surface of approximately 58,000 km 2. It is named after the town of Murzuk in the Fezzan. Like the Idehan Ubari further north, the Idehan Murzuq is part of the greater Sahara Desert region.
- 58,000 km² (22,000 sq mi)
- Libya
- 660 m (2,170 ft)
The Murzuq Desert, Idehan Murzuq, Idhan Murzuq, (also Murzaq, Murzuk, Marzuq and Murzak), is an erg in southwestern Libya with a surface of approximately 58,000 km 2. It is named after the town of Murzuk in the Fezzan. Like the Idehan Ubari further north, the Idehan Murzuq is part of the greater Sahara Desert region.
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Wadi Methkandoush and Idehan Murzuq. The Idehan Murzuq is one of the world's greatest sand dune deserts covering an area almost the size of Switzerland, where few people ever venture. Dune after dune rise 100 or 200 metres above the flat-bottomed valleys of white sand. Sharp sand ridges lead to elegant summits.
The Murzuq Desert is known by various names including Idehan Murzuq, Idhan Murzuq Sand Dunes, Edehan Murzuk, Mourzaq, Murzuk, Muzreg, or Murzak. The sand sea is a massive an erg desert located in Fezzan, South-Western Libya, east of the Acacus mountain range and south of Wadi Metkhendoush.
It is named after the town of Murzuk in the Fezzan. Like the Idehan Ubari further north, the Idehan Murzuq is part of the greater Sahara Desert region. It is separated from the southern Sahara Desert by the Tibesti Mountains and the Tassili n'Ajjer.
Murzuk. / 25.91361°N 13.91694°E / 25.91361; 13.91694. Murzuk, Murzuq, Murzug or Merzug ( Arabic: مرزق) is an oasis town and the capital of the Murzuq District in the Fezzan region of southwest Libya. [3] It lies on the northern edge of the Murzuq Desert, an extremely arid region of ergs or great sand dunes which is part of the ...
Marzūq. Murzuk, oasis, southwestern Libya. It lies on the northern edge of the Murzuk Sand Sea (Idhān Murzuk). An ancient assembly place for caravans to Lake Chad and the Niger River, it was the traditional capital of the Fezzan province (16th–19th century) and a centre of the Arab slave and arms trade. Once called the “Paris of the ...
