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The Cairo–Cape Town Highway passes through the Nubian Desert. The largest city of the Nubian Desert is Port Sudan, at the eastern end of the desert on the Red Sea. Other important cities of the Nubian Desert are Atbara on the river of the same name and Massawa on the Red Sea. The town of Abidiya is on the Nile river.
Pages in category "Deserts of Sudan" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Bayuda Desert; E.
Fragment of Bayuda Desert seen from space Bayuda desert with some acacian trees Desert well used by Bisharin nomadic pastoralists. The Bayuda Desert, located at , is in the eastern region of the Sahara Desert, spanning approximately 100,000 km 2 of northeast Sudan north of Omdurman and south of Korti, embraced by the great bend of the Nile in the north, east, and south and limited by the Wadi ...
Northern Sudan –lying between the Egyptian border and Sennar– has two distinct parts, the desert and the Nile Valley. [1] To the east of the Nile is the Nubian Desert and to the west, the Libyan Desert. [1] Both are stony, with sandy dunes drifting over the landscape. [1] There is virtually no rainfall in these deserts. [1]
Nyiri Desert – a desert located in southern Kenya along the border with Tanzania; Lompoul Desert – a desert lying in northwestern Senegal between Dakar and Saint-Louis; Sahara Desert – Africa's largest desert and the world's largest hot desert which covers much of North Africa comprising:
The South Saharan steppe and woodlands, also known as the South Sahara desert, is a deserts and xeric shrublands ecoregion of northern Africa.This band is a transitional region between the Sahara's very arid center (the Sahara desert ecoregion) to the north, and the wetter Sahelian Acacia savanna ecoregion to the south. [1]
The Eastern Desert (known archaically as Arabia or the Arabian Desert [1] [2]) is the part of the Sahara Desert that is located east of the Nile River.It spans 223,000 square kilometres (86,000 sq mi) of northeastern Africa and is bordered by the Gulf of Suez and the Red Sea to the east, and the Nile River to the west.
The World Wide Fund for Nature divides the Sudanian savanna bioregion into two ecoregions, separated by the Mandara Plateau: The East Sudanian savanna in East and Central Africa extends westwards from the western lowlands of Ethiopia to the Mandara Mountains. [4] The West Sudanian savanna in West Africa runs from eastern Nigeria to The Gambia ...