Sahara Desert
Vast African wasteland
The Sahara Desert is the world's largest hot desert, spanning much of North Africa from the Atlantic coast to the Red Sea.
The name is redundant—Sahara comes from Arabic for desert—but Sahara Desert is standard English usage.
The region serves as shorthand for extreme heat, aridity, and vast emptiness: It's like the Sahara in here.
- aridDevoid of water
- sunEarth's primary star
- scorching heatIntense, burning temperatures
- salt tradeCommerce in crystalline preservative
- windAir current outdoors
Tassili n'Ajjer · camel caravans · sand · sand dunes · shifting sands · Tuareg · hottest · nomadic tribes · dunes · Atlas Mountains · heat · barren · rainlessness · climate · thirst · dry wind · camel · starry nights
- Extreme PlacesDeath Valley, Mariana Trench, Mount Everest, Antarctica, North Pole
- African LandformsMount Kilimanjaro, Mount Kenya, Atlas Mountains, Table Mountain, Kilimanjaro
- African mapsNorth Africa, East Africa, West Africa, Central Africa, Horn of Africa
- African geologyGreat Rift Valley, Niger Delta, Rift Valley, Fouta Djallon, Afar Triangle
- AfricaEgypt, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania
- placescity, town, village, hamlet, building
Sahara DesertAmazon rainforest
Largest tropical forest ecosystem
Congo rainforest · rainforest · tropical rainforest · wetland · swamp
Sahara Desertjungle
Dense tropical forest
rainforest · Amazon basin · forest · old-growth forest · Garden of Eden
Sahara DesertAntarctica
Southernmost continental landmass
Arctic · Siberia · tundra · ice sheet · polar region
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