Top 7 Fun Facts About The Sahara Desert

It’s the largest hot desert on the planet

The Sahara Desert is extremely large in the northern part of Africa. It covers an area of 9,200,000 square kilometers within the borders of 10 different countries. These countries include Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Western Sahara, Sudan, and Tunisia. The desert has a width of 1,800 kilometer) and a length of approximately 4,800 kilometers. This makes it the largest hot desert on the planet because only the cold deserts in the Arctic and Antarctica are larger!

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