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.

Saguia el-Hamra → locatedIn → Sahara Desert ⓘ
Bou Craa → locatedInDesert → Sahara Desert ⓘ
Ghat → locatedInDesert → Sahara Desert ⓘ
Laayoune → locatedInDesert → Sahara Desert ⓘ
Lake Nasser → locatedInDesert → Sahara Desert ⓘ
Old Town of Ghadamès → locatedInDesert → Sahara Desert ⓘ
Sabha District → locatedInDesert → Sahara Desert ⓘ
Erg Chigaga → locatedInRegion → Sahara Desert ⓘ
Sub-Saharan Africa → locatedSouthOf → Sahara Desert ⓘ
Fezzan campaign → location → Sahara Desert ⓘ
Tuareg rebellions in Niger → location → Sahara Desert ⓘ
Ordre du Mérite saharien → namedAfter → Sahara Desert ⓘ
Sabha → nearbyGeographicalFeature → Sahara Desert ⓘ
Almoravid dynasty → originRegion → Sahara Desert ⓘ
this entity surface form: Sahara
Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti → partOf → Sahara Desert ⓘ
Central Sahara → partOf → Sahara Desert ⓘ
Cyrenaican Desert → partOf → Sahara Desert ⓘ
Cyrenaican Desert → partOf → Sahara Desert ⓘ
this entity surface form: greater Sahara
Erg Chebbi → partOf → Sahara Desert ⓘ
Gao Region → partOf → Sahara Desert ⓘ
Kidal Region → partOf → Sahara Desert ⓘ
Mali → partOf → Sahara Desert ⓘ
Nubian Desert → partOf → Sahara Desert ⓘ
Qattara Depression → partOf → Sahara Desert ⓘ
Río de Oro → partOf → Sahara Desert ⓘ
Tibesti Mountains → partOf → Sahara Desert ⓘ
Western Desert → partOf → Sahara Desert ⓘ
Nile → passesThroughDesert → Sahara Desert ⓘ
Berbers → presentInRegion → Sahara Desert ⓘ
Toubou → primaryHabitat → Sahara Desert ⓘ
Tebu → primaryRegion → Sahara Desert ⓘ
Chadian–Libyan conflict → region → Sahara Desert ⓘ
Songhay languages → region → Sahara Desert ⓘ
this entity surface form: Sahara
Tuareg → region → Sahara Desert ⓘ
this entity surface form: Sahara
Tuareg rebellions in Mali → region → Sahara Desert ⓘ
this entity surface form: Sahara
this entity surface form: Sahara
Anti-Atlas → separates → Sahara Desert ⓘ
The Sheik → setIn → Sahara Desert ⓘ
Sahara with Michael Palin → setting → Sahara Desert ⓘ
The Alchemist → setting → Sahara Desert ⓘ
Sahara with Michael Palin → subject → Sahara Desert ⓘ
Blue People → usedInContext → Sahara Desert ⓘ
Amazigh flag → yellowRepresents → Sahara Desert ⓘ