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Sahara, largest desert in the world. Filling nearly all of northern Africa, it measures approximately 3,000 miles (4,800 km) from east to west and between 800 to 1,200 miles from north to south and has a total area of some 3,320,000 square miles (8,600,000 square km).
The Sahara (/ s ə ˈ h ɑːr ə /, / s ə ˈ h ær ə /) is a desert spanning across North Africa. With an area of 9,200,000 square kilometres (3,600,000 sq mi), 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. [1] [2] [3]
Map showing the extent of the Sahara Desert in Africa. The Sahara Desert covers vast parts of 11 North African nations including Algeria, Egypt, Mali, Morocco, Western Sahara, Tunisia, Chad, Libya, Mauritania, Niger, and Sudan within its boundaries.
The Sahara is bordered on the west by the Atlantic Ocean, bounded on the north by the Atlas Mountains and the Mediterranean Sea, and on the east by the Red Sea. To the south it is bordered by the Sahel, a belt of semi-arid tropical savannah around the Niger River valley, and the Sudan region of sub-Saharan Africa.
Location of Sahara Desert and the Countries it Covers. The Red Sea surrounds the Sahara on the east, the Atlantic Ocean on the west, on the north the Mediterranean Sea and the Sahel, a semi-arid tropical savannah of Sudan and the Valley of River Niger of Sub Saharan Africa on the south.
Other than the vast expanses of ice desert in the Antarctic and Arctic, the Sahara, encompassing most of northern Africa, is the world's largest desert. Map. Directions.
Explore Sahara Desert in Google Earth.