Sahara Desert

E10378

desert geographical region hot desert

The Sahara Desert is the world’s largest hot desert, spanning much of North Africa with vast sand seas, rocky plateaus, and extreme arid conditions.

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All labels observed (14)

Label	Occurrences
Sahara Desert canonical	193
Sahara	27
Sahara Desert region	6
Egyptian Sahara	1
Egyptian desert	1
Libyan Desert	1
North African desert	1
Sahara Desert (eastern part)	1
Sahara Desert (on African segments of the route)	1
Sahara Desert (western part)	1
Sahara desert ecoregion	1
Sahara region	1
greater Sahara	1
the Sahara region	1

Statements (60)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	desert ⓘ geographical region ⓘ hot desert ⓘ
area	approximately 3,600,000 square miles ⓘ approximately 9,200,000 square kilometers ⓘ
borderedBy	Atlantic Ocean ⓘ Mediterranean Sea ⓘ Red Sea ⓘ Sahel ⓘ surface form: Sahel region
climate	arid ⓘ hyper-arid ⓘ
contains	Erg Chebbi ⓘ Erg Chigaga ⓘ Central Sahara ⓘ surface form: Libyan Desert Nubian Desert ⓘ Central Sahara ⓘ surface form: Ténéré Desert
continent	Africa ⓘ
crossedBy	Nile ⓘ surface form: Nile River trans-Saharan trade routes ⓘ
etymology	name derived from Arabic word "ṣaḥrāʼ" meaning "desert" ⓘ
feature	gravel plains ⓘ mountain ranges ⓘ rocky plateaus ⓘ salt flats ⓘ sand seas ⓘ
hasEcoregion	Sahara Desert self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Sahara desert ecoregion
hasResource	natural gas ⓘ oil ⓘ phosphate deposits ⓘ solar energy potential ⓘ
highestPoint	Emi Koussi ⓘ
highestPointElevation	approximately 11,204 feet ⓘ approximately 3,415 meters ⓘ
inhabitedBy	Arab groups ⓘ Berber groups ⓘ Tuareg ⓘ surface form: Tuareg people
knownFor	dust storms ⓘ extreme aridity ⓘ large diurnal temperature range ⓘ sand dunes ⓘ very high daytime temperatures ⓘ
locatedIn	Algeria ⓘ Chad ⓘ Egypt ⓘ Libya ⓘ Mali ⓘ Mauritania ⓘ Morocco ⓘ Niger ⓘ North Africa ⓘ Sudan ⓘ Tunisia ⓘ Spanish Sahara ⓘ surface form: Western Sahara
lowestPoint	Qattara Depression ⓘ
lowestPointElevation	approximately −133 meters ⓘ approximately −436 feet ⓘ
partOf	African drylands ⓘ Palearctic ecozone ⓘ
rank	largest hot desert in the world ⓘ third-largest desert in the world after Antarctica and the Arctic ⓘ

Referenced by (237)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Arab world → hasDesert → Sahara Desert ⓘ

Africa → hasMajorDesert → Sahara Desert ⓘ

Libya → desertRegion → Sahara Desert ⓘ

North Africa → containsDesert → Sahara Desert ⓘ

Algeria → geographicFeature → Sahara Desert ⓘ

Tebu → primaryRegion → Sahara Desert ⓘ

Tuareg → ethnicGroupOf → Sahara Desert ⓘ

Tuareg → region → Sahara Desert ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sahara

Old Town of Ghadamès → locatedInDesert → Sahara Desert ⓘ

Berbers → presentInRegion → Sahara Desert ⓘ

Morocco → containsDesert → Sahara Desert ⓘ

Rock-Art Sites of Tadrart Acacus → locatedIn → Sahara Desert ⓘ

Sabha → nearbyGeographicalFeature → Sahara Desert ⓘ

Nile → passesThroughDesert → Sahara Desert ⓘ

Sahara Desert → hasEcoregion → Sahara Desert self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sahara desert ecoregion

Mauritania → geography → Sahara Desert ⓘ

French North Africa → borderedBy → Sahara Desert ⓘ

Western Hemisphere → contains → Sahara Desert ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sahara Desert (western part)

African Plate → includesRegion → Sahara Desert ⓘ

Sub-Saharan Africa → locatedSouthOf → Sahara Desert ⓘ

Anti-Atlas → separates → Sahara Desert ⓘ

Sahel → borders → Sahara Desert ⓘ

Chad → hasRegion → Sahara Desert ⓘ

Evagrius Ponticus → laterLivedIn → Sahara Desert ⓘ

this entity surface form: Egyptian desert

Central Africa → borderedBy → Sahara Desert ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sahara

Fezzan → locatedIn → Sahara Desert ⓘ

Niger → hasRegion → Sahara Desert ⓘ

Western Desert → partOf → Sahara Desert ⓘ

Western Desert → hasSubregion → Sahara Desert ⓘ

this entity surface form: Libyan Desert

The Sheik → setIn → Sahara Desert ⓘ

Songhay languages → region → Sahara Desert ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sahara

CEN-SAD → focusRegion → Sahara Desert ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sahara

Tripolitania → borderedBy → Sahara Desert ⓘ

The Alchemist → setting → Sahara Desert ⓘ

Blue People → usedInContext → Sahara Desert ⓘ

Blue People → associatedWithEnvironment → Sahara Desert ⓘ

Blue Men of the Sahara → ethnicGroupOf → Sahara Desert ⓘ

Tuareg cross → associatedWith → Sahara Desert ⓘ

Tuareg rebellions in Mali → region → Sahara Desert ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sahara

Central Sahara → partOf → Sahara Desert ⓘ

Ghadamès → locatedIn → Sahara Desert ⓘ

Tibesti Mountains → partOf → Sahara Desert ⓘ

Mali → partOf → Sahara Desert ⓘ

Kel Ajjer → locatedIn → Sahara Desert ⓘ

Imajaghan → inhabits → Sahara Desert ⓘ

Toubou → primaryHabitat → Sahara Desert ⓘ

Teda → associatedDesert → Sahara Desert ⓘ

Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti → partOf → Sahara Desert ⓘ

Tuareg rebellions in Niger → location → Sahara Desert ⓘ

Daza → culturalArea → Sahara Desert ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sahara