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Sahara

The Sahara (/səˈhɑːrə/, /səˈhɛrə/) is a desert spanning 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.

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Area
9,200,000 km2 (3,600,000 mi2)
Countries
Algeria · Chad · Egypt · Libya · Mali
Length
4,800 km (3,000 mi)
Native name
Arabic: الصحراء الكبرى · aṣ-ṣaḥrā' al-kubrá · "The greatest desert"
Width
1,800 km (1,100 mi)

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Sahara

Nodes473
Edges472
Triples538
Avg. degree2
Density0.004228
Components1

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related to Bibliography · 72
Sahara → Abdallah, Africa, Algeria, An Interpretive Essay, Andalus, Arab Conquest, Blackwell, Brett, Bulliet, Cambridge, Charles-André, Chris, Columbia University Press, Drones, Eamonn, Elizabeth, Fentress, Gearon, Harlow, Harvard University Press
related to Ecoregions · 54
Sahara → Adrar, Adrar Plateau, Ajjer, Algeria, Atlantic, August, Aïr, Canary Current, Chad, Chott Melghir, Cyrenaica, Egypt, Higher, Ifoghas, Iforas, In, Intertropical Convergence Zone, It, ITCZ, Jebel Uweinat
related to Peoples and languages · 37
Sahara → Afro-Asiatic, Amazigh, Among, Arabic, Arabized Amaziɣ, Beja, Berber, Canary Islands, Diplomacy, Fourth, French, Fula, Fula/Fulani, Fulɓe, Guanche, Hamito-Semitic, Hassaniya-speaking Sahrawis, Hausa, Holocene, Kanuri
related to Tichitt culture · 29
Sahara → African, After, As, At Dhar Tichitt, Atrouss, BCE, By, Central Sahara, Dakhlet, Dhar Néma, Dhar Tagant, Dhar Tichitt, Dhar Walata, Farming, In, Malian Lakes Region, Mande, Mauritania, Neolithic, Pastoral Period
related to European colonialism · 28
Sahara → Ahaggar Tuareg, Algeria, Algiers, By, Chaamba, Chaamba Arabs, Chad, European, France, French, French Algeria, French Sudan, Hoggar Mountains, In, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Méhariste, Niger, Ottomans
related to Kiffians · 21
Sahara → After, Bones, Craniometric, Gobero, Holocene, Holocene Capsians, Holocene Mechta, Holocene Wet Phase, Human, Kiffian, Late Pleistocene Iberomaurusians, Maghreb, Neolithic Subpluvial, Niger, Stone Age, Tenerian, The, The Kiffian, The Kiffians, Traces
related to Ottoman Turkish era · 21
Sahara → Africa, Algeria, Arabic, East, Egypt, Europe, From, In, Islamic, Libya, Mediterranean, Nile Valley, North Africa, Ottoman, Ottoman Empire, Ottomans, The, The Sahel, Traders, Tuareg
related to Breakup of the empires and afterwards · 19
Sahara → Algeria, Anglo-Egyptian, Britain, British, British-Egyptian, Chad, Egypt, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Most, Niger, Saharan, Spain, Sudan, Tunisia, Western Sahara, World War II
related to Egyptians · 19
Sahara → According, African, Al Fayyum, Alain Anselin, BCE, Burial, By, Egypt, Egyptian, Egyptians, Metal, Nile Valley, Several, Stone, Subsistence, Sudanese, Tanning, There, UNESCO
related to Geography · 19
Sahara → African, Algeria, Chad, Earth, Egypt, If, It, Libya, Mali, Many, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Richat Structure, Sudan, The, The Sahara, Tunisia, Western Sahara

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desert north africa egypt african bce northern algeria sudan mauritania 000 saharan found years morocco rainfall also libya niger southern

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SaharaArea9,200,000 km2 (3,600,000 mi2)1.00infobox
SaharaCoordinates.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-pars…1.00infobox
SaharaCountriesAlgeria1.00infobox
SaharaCountriesChad1.00infobox
SaharaCountriesEgypt1.00infobox
SaharaCountriesLibya1.00infobox
SaharaCountriesMali1.00infobox
SaharaCountriesMauritania1.00infobox
SaharaCountriesMorocco1.00infobox
SaharaCountriesNiger1.00infobox
SaharaCountriesSudan1.00infobox
SaharaCountriesTunisia1.00infobox
SaharaCountriesSahrawi Arab Democratic Republic1.00infobox
SaharaLength4,800 km (3,000 mi)1.00infobox
SaharaNative nameArabic: الصحراء الكبرى1.00infobox
SaharaNative nameaṣ-ṣaḥrā' al-kubrá1.00infobox
SaharaNative name"The greatest desert"1.00infobox
SaharaWidth1,800 km (1,100 mi)1.00infobox
Saharais ahighly diverse desert region composed of hamada0.90text
Saharais aworld's largest hot desert0.90text
Saharais acontinental tropical0.90text
Saharais aIntertropical Convergence Zone0.90text

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