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Last Updated: 05/18/2024

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The Sahara Desert is the world's largest hot desert, spanning across North Africa. It covers approximately 9.2 million square kilometers, making it the third-largest desert globally, smaller only than Antarctica and the Arctic. The desert extends from the Red Sea in the east to the Atlantic Ocean in the west, and from the Mediterranean in the north to the Sahel savanna in the south.
The Sahara features various regions, including the western Sahara, the central Ahaggar Mountains, the Tibesti Mountains, the Aïr Mountains, the Ténéré desert, and the Libyan Desert.

The Sahara covers parts of several countries, including Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Western Sahara, and Sudan. It comprises various landforms such as shallow basins, oasis depressions, gravel plains, plateaus, mountains, and sand seas. The highest peak in the Sahara is Emi Koussi, a volcano in the Tibesti Mountains, Chad.
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