Sahara
Also known as aṣ-Ṣaḥrāʾ al-Kubrā, The Sahara, Sahara Desert, as-Sahra, al-Sahara, al-Sahra, as-Sahra al-Kubra, Zara
The Sahara (, ) is a desert spanning North Africa. With an area of , 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.
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The Sahara is a massive desert that stretches across North Africa, making it the largest hot desert in the world and the third-largest desert of any kind after Antarctica and the Arctic. Its enormous size and geographic position across an entire continent make it a significant natural feature that shapes the climate, environment, and human geography of North Africa.
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- Sahara
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- The Sahara taken by Apollo 17 astronauts, 1972
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- Geographical map of the Sahara
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- 4,800
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- 1,800
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- 9,200,000
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- Population2,500,000
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28 sectionsContents
- Geography
- Climate
- Temperature
- Precipitation
- Desertification and prehistoric climate<span class="anchor" id="Climate history"></span>
- Evidence for cycles
- Ecoregions
- Flora and fauna
- History
- Kiffians
- Tenerians
- Tashwinat Mummy
- Nubians
- Egyptians
- Haratins
- Tichitt culture
- Phoenicians
- Greeks
- Garamantes
- Islamic and Arabic expansion
- Ottoman Turkish era
- European colonialism
- Breakup of the empires and afterwards
- Peoples and languages
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
The Sahara (, ) is a desert spanning North Africa. With an area of , 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 name "Sahara" is derived from , a broken plural form of ( ), meaning "desert".
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