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  1. Sahara, Sahara Desertnoun

    the world's largest desert (3,500,000 square miles) in northern Africa

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  1. sahara desert

    The Sahara (, ) is a desert on the African continent. With an area of 9,200,000 square kilometres (3,600,000 sq mi), it is the largest hot desert in the world and the third-largest desert overall, smaller only than the deserts of Antarctica and the northern Arctic.The name "Sahara" is derived from the Arabic word for "desert" in the feminine irregular form, the singular ṣaḥra' (صحراء /ˈsˤaħra/), plural ṣaḥārā (صَحَارَى /ˈsˤaħaːraː/), ṣaḥār (صَحَار), ṣaḥrāwāt (صَحْرَاوَات), ṣaḥāriy (صَحَارِي). The desert comprises much of North Africa, excluding the fertile region on the Mediterranean Sea coast, the Atlas Mountains of the Maghreb, and the Nile Valley in Egypt and the Sudan. It stretches from the Red Sea in the east and the Mediterranean in the north to the Atlantic Ocean in the west, where the landscape gradually changes from desert to coastal plains. To the south it is bounded by the Sahel, a belt of semi-arid tropical savanna around the Niger River valley and the Sudan region of sub-Saharan Africa. The Sahara can be divided into several regions, including the western Sahara, the central Ahaggar Mountains, the Tibesti Mountains, the Aïr Mountains, the Ténéré desert, and the Libyan Desert. For several hundred thousand years, the Sahara has alternated between desert and savanna grassland in a 20,000-year cycle caused by the precession of Earth's axis as it rotates around the Sun, which changes the location of the North African monsoon.

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    The Sahara Desert is the largest hot desert in the world, located in North Africa. It spans over several countries including Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Sudan, Tunisia and Western Sahara. It's known for its harsh, arid climate with scarce rainfall, extreme temperature variations and sand dunes. It is also home to several unique species of plants and animals adapted to survive in such harsh conditions. The Sahara Desert also carries significant historical and cultural significance, with ancient remains and structures found from lost civilizations.

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  1. Sahara Desert

    The Sahara desert ecoregion, as defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature, includes the hyper-arid center of the Sahara, between 18° and 30° N. It is one of several desert and xeric shrubland ecoregions that cover the northern portion of the African continent.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of sahara desert in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of sahara desert in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

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  1. Milton Friedman:

    If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.


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