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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.
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 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]
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 ...
Name Type Image Area (km 2) ... Eastern Europe Northern America ... Angola, Namibia, and South Africa: 23: Margo Desert: Subtropical: 150,000
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]
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]