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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.
Antarctic Desert: Polar ice and tundra: 14,200,000 [1] 5,482,651: Antarctica: N/A 2: Arctic Desert: Polar ice and tundra ... Eastern Europe Northern America Northern Asia
Nefud Desert – a desert in northern part of the Arabian Peninsula; Ramlat al-Sab`atayn – a desert in north-central Yemen; Wahiba Sands – a desert covering great parts of Oman Aerial view of Negev; Judaean Desert – a desert in eastern Israel and the West Bank; Negev – a desert located in southern Israel
The Mojave Desert is the hottest desert in North America, located primarily in southeastern California and Southern Nevada. Its total area is 22,000 sq mi (57,000 km 2). The largest cold desert is the Great Basin Desert, which encompasses much of the northern Basin and Range Province, north of the Mojave Desert.
The topographic features of the desert region east of the Nile differ from those to the west of the Nile. The Eastern Desert is relatively mountainous. The elevation rises abruptly from the Nile, and a downward-sloping plateau of sand gives way within 100 km to arid, defoliated, rocky hills running north and south between the Sudan border and ...
1.5.6 Red Sea and Eastern Desert. 2 List by areas and time. Toggle List by areas and time subsection. 2.1 Western Desert. 2.2 Alexandria. 2.3 Rosetta. 2.4 Damietta.
The Rub' al Khali [note 1] (/ ˈ r ʊ b æ l ˈ k ɑː l i /; [1] Arabic: ٱلرُّبْع ٱلْخَالِي, [ar.rʊbʕ‿al.χaːliː]) or Empty Quarter is a desert [2] encompassing most of the southern third of the Arabian Peninsula.
Quarrying expeditions to the Eastern Desert are recorded from the second millennia BCE, where the wadi has exposed Precambrian rocks of the Arabian-Nubian Shield. These include Basalts, schists, bekhen-stone (an especially prized green metagraywacke sandstone used for bowls, palettes, statues, and sarcophagi) [3] and gold-containing quartz. [4]