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صحرای بزرگ آفریقا
Sign in to saveAlso known as aṣ-Ṣaḥrāʾ al-Kubrā, The Sahara, Sahara Desert, as-Sahra, al-Sahara, al-Sahra, as-Sahra al-Kubra, Zara
صحرایی در آفریقا
AI overview
The Sahara is a massive desert that stretches across North Africa, making it the largest hot desert in the world and the third-largest desert of any kind after Antarctica and the Arctic. Its enormous size and geographic position across an entire continent make it a significant natural feature that shapes the climate, environment, and human geography of North Africa.
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Key facts
- Valley.name
- Sahara
- Valley.photo
- Sahara real color.jpg
- Valley.photo_caption
- The Sahara taken by Apollo 17 astronauts, 1972
- Valley.map_image
- Sahara.svg
- Valley.map_caption
- Geographical map of the Sahara
- Valley.length_km
- 4,800
- Valley.width_km
- 1,800
- Valley.area_km2
- 9,200,000
- Valley.footnotes
- Population2,500,000
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- desert
- Country
- France
- Located in
- Algeria
- Continent
- Africa
- Area
- 9200000
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Highest point
- Emi Koussi
- Image
- Sahara real color.jpg
- Width
- 1800
- Length
- 4800
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- P12749
- Jauer
- Commons category
- Sahara
- topic's main category
- Category:Sahara
- lowest point
- Qattara Depression
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- native label
- الصحراء الكُبرى
- ecoregion (WWF)
- Tanezrouft
- different from
- Sahara
- Köppen climate classification
- hot desert climate
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