what is the name of the world's biggest desert?

Question

what is the name of the world's biggest desert?
a) kalahari
b) sahara

Answer 1

*Antartica ...... if u include the polar regions!
Sahara ...........outside the polar regions !!!!!
Take yr pick of the ''largest'' desert {not biggest] !!!!

Answer 2

SAHARA

The Sahara is word taken from Arabic language, which means "The Great Desert.” It is the world's largest hot desert and second largest desert after Antarctica. At over 9,000,000 square kilometers, (3,500,000 sq mi is larger than the 48 contiguous states. The Sahara defines the borders of North Africa and has a history that may go back as much as 2.5 million years. It considered equivalent to the United States.

Climate
It always has variation in climate. There you Experienced monsoon due to heat in summer because it received more solar isolation n in summer. You can found oasis in Aghaar Mountains.
Temperature
It has harshest climate of the world. Its heat ranges to 58 C and 136 F and in winter, it could down to -6 C and 22 F. Sahara is as hot as it was 13000 years ago.
People of the region
Sahara is the place of Berbers, Greeks, Arabs, and sub-Saharan Africans are living from years.
Urban civilization
The Garamantes is the old civilization found at the heart of Sahara, now called as wadi-al-ajal in Fazzan, Libya. Archaeologists have found eight major towns and many other important settlements in the Garamantes territory.
Domestic animals

Dromedaries and goats found in the region of Sahara where nomadic people use dromedaries for transport. Leiurus quinquestriatus, which is 10 cm long, the monitor lizard, the Vipera ammodytes, ostrich, addax the white antelope, and cheetah found in Niger, Mali, and Chad, African silverbill and black- throated fire finch is a bird also found there.
Botanical background Abelmoschus,acacia, Acanthopanax, Actinidia, Agave, Allium, Aloe, Arachis, Basella these are all edible plants and shrubs.

Answer 3

The Sahara (Arabic: al-koubra, "The Great Desert") is technically the world's second largest desert after Antarctica. At over 9,000,000 square kilometres (3,500,000 sq mi), it covers most parts of northern Africa; an area stretching from the Red sea, including parts of the Mediterranean coasts, to the outskirts of the Atlantic ocean. It is almost as large as the United States, and is larger than Australia. Its name derives from an Arabic word meaning "desert" to refer to the Sahara as the 'Sahara Desert' is therefore a pleonasm.

The Sahara desert covers huge parts of Algeria, Burkina Faso, Chad, Egypt, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Senegal, Sudan and Tunisia.

Answer 4

Sahara

Answer 5

Sahara

Answer 6

The Sahara Desert in the northern part of Africa is the biggest

Answer 7

Thr world's largest desert is actually the continent of Antarctica; it is the world's driest place. It receives less than two inches of precipitation annually. Antarctica is 5.5 million square miles (14,245,000 square kilometers) in area.
Outside of polar regions, Northern Africa's Sahara Desert is the world's largest desert at more than 3.5 million square miles (9 million square kilometers), which is slightly smaller that the size of the United States, the world's fourth largest country. The Sahara strectches from Mauritania to Egypt and Sudan.

Answer 8

Sahara Desert in North Africa covers fron the edge of the Atlas Mtns. on the West Coast to the Nile on the East Coast.

Answer 9

Neither of these. The largest desert in the world is Antarctica, or if you prefer, the Antarctic Continent, which is much bigger than the next largest, the Sahara desert of North Africa.

Answer 10

Sahara Desert. It is 9,000,000 square kilometres (3,500,000 sq mi), it covers most parts of northern Africa; an area stretching from the Red sea, including parts of the Mediterranean coasts, to the outskirts of the Atlantic ocean. It is almost as large as the United States, and is larger than Australia.

Answer 11

sahara desert