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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.
Flowing through the desert is the Nile Valley, whose alluvial strip of habitable land is no more than two kilometers wide and whose productivity depends on the annual flood. [1] The desert of east Sudan. Sudan's western front encompasses the regions known as Darfur and Kurdufan that comprise 850,000 square kilometers. [1]
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.
The Maghreb is a region of northwest Africa encompassing the coastlands and Atlas Mountains of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. The Sahara Desert is the massive sparsely populated region in North Africa that contains the world's largest hot deserts; Sub-Saharan Africa is the area of the African continent which lies south of the Sahara.
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 country's name Sudan is a name given historically to the large Sahel region of West Africa to the immediate west of modern-day Sudan. Historically, Sudan referred to both the geographical region, stretching from Senegal on the Atlantic Coast to Northeast Africa and the modern Sudan.
The Sahel region (/ s ə ˈ h ɛ l /; from Arabic ساحل (sāḥil) 'coast, shore'), or Sahelian acacia savanna, is a biogeographical region in Africa.It is the transition zone between the more humid Sudanian savannas to its south and the drier Sahara to the north.
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.