what is the largest desert in africa?

Answer 1

That would be the Sahara Desert.

Answer 2

The boundaries of the Sahara are the Atlantic Ocean on the west, the Atlas Mountains and the Mediterranean Sea on the north, the Red Sea and Egypt on the east, and the Sudan and the valley of the Niger River on the south. The Sahara is divided into western Sahara, the central Ahaggar Mountains, the Tibesti Mountains, the Aïr Mountains (a region of desert mountains and high plateaus), Tenere desert and the Libyan desert (the most arid region). The highest peak in the Sahara is Emi Koussi (3415 m) in the Tibesti Mountains in northern Chad.

The Sahara divides the continent of Africa into North and Sub-Saharan Africa. The southern border of the Sahara is marked by a band of semiarid savanna called the Sahel; south of the Sahel lies the lusher Sudan and the Congo River Basin. Most of the Sahara consists of rocky hamada; ergs (large sand dunes) form only a minor part.

Humans have lived on the edge of the desert for almost 500,000 years. Immediately after the last ice age, the Sahara was a much wetter place than it is today. Over 30,000 petroglyphs of river animals such as crocodiles (which still exist in parts of the desert)[1] survive, with half found in the Tassili n'Ajjer in southeast Algeria. Fossils of dinosaurs, including Afrovenator, Jobaria and Ouranosaurus, have also been found here. The modern Sahara, though, is not as lush in vegetation, except in the Nile Valley, at a few oases, and in the northern highlands, where Mediterranean plants such as the olive tree are found to grow. The region has been this way since about 3000 BCE.

Some 2.5 million people live in the Sahara, most of these in Egypt, Mauritania, Morocco and Algeria. Dominant ethnicities in the Sahara are various Berber groups including Tuareg tribes, various Arabised Berber groups such as the Hassaniya-speaking Maure/Moors (also known as Sahrawis), and various "black African" ethnicities including Tubu, Nubians, Zaghawa,Kanuri, Peul (Fulani), Hausa and Songhai. The largest city in the Sahara is the Egyptian capital Cairo, in the Nile Valley. Other important cities are Nouakchott, the capital of Mauritania; Tamanrasset, Algeria; Timbuktu, Mali; Agadez, Niger; Ghat, Libya; and Faya, Chad

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Answer 3

The Sahara is the world's largest hot desert, and second largest desert at over 9,000,000 km² (3,500,000 mi²), almost as large as the United States. The Sahara is located in northern Africa and is 2.5 million years old.

The name Sahara is an English pronunciation of the Arabic word for desert, صحراء (help·info)).

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Answer 4

The Sahara Desert covers 3,500,000 miles. It is the largest desert in the world. The name Sahara comes from the Arabic word for desert. The Sahara is covered by mountains, rocky areas, gravel plains, salt flats and huge areas of dunes. Areas in the central Sahara sometimes get no rain for years at a time. Less than 2 million people live in the Sahara desert. Most of the people are Arabic nomads. Nomads are people that have no permanent home. They constantly travel in search for food and water for themselves and their animals. The Sahara has been crossed by Arab caravans since the 10th century.

Answer 5

Largest is the Sahara, but a little know fact is Antartica is the largest desert in the world. Wonder if that is what you ment to ask.

Answer 6

The Sahara desert is larger than the continental United States, so it's definitely the largest African desert by far.

Answer 7

The Sahara

Answer 8

The Sahara

Answer 9

Well seems like the only answer is the Sahara so well it is what ya know also the largest in the world.

Answer 10

Northern Africa is the Sahara and in Southern Africa its the Kalahari