Sahara Desert

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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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Observed surface forms (7)

Surface form Occurrences
Sahara 9
Egyptian desert 1
Libyan Desert 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 (94)

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

Teda → associatedDesert → Sahara Desert ⓘ
Tuareg cross → associatedWith → Sahara Desert ⓘ
Blue People → associatedWithEnvironment → Sahara Desert ⓘ
Lake Chad basin → borderRegionOf → Sahara Desert ⓘ
subject surface form: Lake Chad Basin
Bornu Empire → bordered → Sahara Desert ⓘ
Central Africa → borderedBy → Sahara Desert ⓘ
this entity surface form: Sahara
French Algeria → borderedBy → Sahara Desert ⓘ
French North Africa → borderedBy → Sahara Desert ⓘ
Nile Valley → borderedBy → Sahara Desert ⓘ
Northwest Africa → borderedBy → Sahara Desert ⓘ
Tripolitania → borderedBy → Sahara Desert ⓘ
Jebel Nafusa in Libya → borders → Sahara Desert ⓘ
subject surface form: Jebel Nafusa
Numidia → borders → Sahara Desert ⓘ
Sahel → borders → Sahara Desert ⓘ
Afro-Eurasian desert belt → contains → Sahara Desert ⓘ
Northeast Africa → contains → Sahara Desert ⓘ
this entity surface form: Sahara Desert (eastern part)
Western Hemisphere → contains → Sahara Desert ⓘ
this entity surface form: Sahara Desert (western part)
Morocco → containsDesert → Sahara Desert ⓘ
North Africa → containsDesert → Sahara Desert ⓘ
Daza → culturalArea → Sahara Desert ⓘ
this entity surface form: Sahara
Libya → desertRegion → Sahara Desert ⓘ
Blue Men of the Sahara → ethnicGroupOf → Sahara Desert ⓘ
Tuareg → ethnicGroupOf → Sahara Desert ⓘ
CEN-SAD → focusRegion → Sahara Desert ⓘ
this entity surface form: Sahara
Algeria → geographicFeature → Sahara Desert ⓘ
Mauritania → geography → Sahara Desert ⓘ
this entity surface form: Sahara
Arab world → hasDesert → Sahara Desert ⓘ
Sahara Desert → hasEcoregion → Sahara Desert self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Sahara desert ecoregion
Africa → hasMajorDesert → Sahara Desert ⓘ
Northwest Africa → hasMajorDesert → Sahara Desert ⓘ
Chad → hasRegion → Sahara Desert ⓘ
Niger → hasRegion → Sahara Desert ⓘ
Western Desert → hasSubregion → Sahara Desert ⓘ
this entity surface form: Libyan Desert
Emi Koussi → highestPointOf → Sahara Desert ⓘ
African Plate → includesRegion → Sahara Desert ⓘ
Imajaghan → inhabits → Sahara Desert ⓘ
Emi Koussi → isHighestVolcanoOf → Sahara Desert ⓘ
Emi Koussi → isInDesert → Sahara Desert ⓘ
Evagrius Ponticus → laterLivedIn → Sahara Desert ⓘ
this entity surface form: Egyptian desert
Emi Koussi → locatedIn → Sahara Desert ⓘ
Erg Chebbi → locatedIn → Sahara Desert ⓘ
Fezzan → locatedIn → Sahara Desert ⓘ
Ghadamès → locatedIn → Sahara Desert ⓘ
Kel Adagh → locatedIn → Sahara Desert ⓘ
Kel Ajjer → locatedIn → Sahara Desert ⓘ
M’zab region of Algeria → locatedIn → Sahara Desert ⓘ
subject surface form: M’zab region