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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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| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sahara | Area | 9,200,000 km2 (3,600,000 mi2) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Sahara | Coordinates | .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… | 1.00 | infobox |
| Sahara | Countries | Algeria | 1.00 | infobox |
| Sahara | Countries | Chad | 1.00 | infobox |
| Sahara | Countries | Egypt | 1.00 | infobox |
| Sahara | Countries | Libya | 1.00 | infobox |
| Sahara | Countries | Mali | 1.00 | infobox |
| Sahara | Countries | Mauritania | 1.00 | infobox |
| Sahara | Countries | Morocco | 1.00 | infobox |
| Sahara | Countries | Niger | 1.00 | infobox |
| Sahara | Countries | Sudan | 1.00 | infobox |
| Sahara | Countries | Tunisia | 1.00 | infobox |
| Sahara | Countries | Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic | 1.00 | infobox |
| Sahara | Length | 4,800 km (3,000 mi) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Sahara | Native name | Arabic: الصحراء الكبرى | 1.00 | infobox |
| Sahara | Native name | aṣ-ṣaḥrā' al-kubrá | 1.00 | infobox |
| Sahara | Native name | "The greatest desert" | 1.00 | infobox |
| Sahara | Width | 1,800 km (1,100 mi) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Sahara | is a | highly diverse desert region composed of hamada | 0.90 | text |
| Sahara | is a | world's largest hot desert | 0.90 | text |
| Sahara | is a | continental tropical | 0.90 | text |
| Sahara | is a | Intertropical Convergence Zone | 0.90 | text |
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