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The Sahara, 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 continental United States, and is larger than Australia. As its name derives from an Arabic word meaning "desert". To refer to the Sahara as the "Sahara Desert" can be considered a tautology.
The Sahara covers huge parts of Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Western Sahara, Sudan and Tunisia. It is one of three distinct physiographic provinces of the African massive physiographic division.
The Sahara includes many landforms such as rivers (Nile River, Sénégal River, Niger River), mountain ranges (Aïr Mountains, Ahaggar Mountains, Saharan Atlas, Tibesti Mountains), smaller deserts and ergs (Libyan Desert, Ténéré, Egyptian Sand Sea, Qattara Depression, Erg of Bilma, Erg Chebbi), lakes (Lake Chad) and oases (Bahariya, Ghardaïa, Timimoun).
According to a botanical criteria of Cap-Rey, the Sahara is comprised between the following:
- At north: limits of the maturity of Phoenix dactylifera (date palm trees)
- At south: southern limit of Cornucala monacantha (a Chenopodiaceae) or northern limit of the Cencrus biflorus (a Poaceae of the Sahel region).
According to climatic criteria:
- At north: an isohyet of 100 mm annual precipitation.
- At south: a limit described by an isohyet of 150 mm annual precipitation (keeping in mind that precipitation varies strongly from one year to another).
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- Sahara gas pipeline gets go-ahead
- Nigeria, Niger and Algeria have signed an agreement to build a multi-billion dollar pipeline to take Nigerian gas across the Sahara to the Mediterranean. ...
- Sahara Solar project to move forward at Munich meet
- The technology is certainly there and it makes sense but there are political factors that need to be taken into consideration regarding the Sahara region. ...
- AP News in Brief
- Beyond his message, the story was his presence ? the first black US president coming to poor, proud, predominantly black sub-Sahara Africa for his first ...
- GdF Suez to develop $2.3 billion gas field in Sahara with ...
- By AP PARIS (AP) ? GdF Suez SA said Tuesday it is forging ahead with plans to develop a $2.3 billion gas project in the Sahara Desert that will be the ...
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- El Bosquejo: Miharayasuhiro lands on the Sahara
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry crashed his plane on the Libyan Sahara en route to Saigon from Paris. His life and his book, The Little Prince, are sources of inspiration for Miharayasuhiro's Spring 2010 collection. The shifting sand dunes, ...
- Sahara Super 20 Fund NFO: Review Analysis & Details: Finance ...
- The Sahara Mutual Fund house has come out with its New Fund offer or NFO. They have launched a new fund called the Sahara Super 20 Fund. Seems like the Investor sentiment is high, and the mutual fund companies are finding this to be the ...
- “Out of Africa” – Trans-Sahara gives Diversity of Gas Supply for ...
- The European Union, which has whole-heartedly given its support to the project, sees it in terms of both security of supply for the future and also in terms of diversity of supply to further distance.
- Sahara (anaglyph) on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
- A stereoscopic glass slide of french origin.This one was probably taken in Algeria in the vicinity of Biskra around 1920. Converted to anaglyph.
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Sahara links
- Sahara (2005)
- Directed by Breck Eisner. With Jude Akuwidike, Mark Aspinall, Rakie Ayola. Visit IMDb for Photos, Showtimes, Cast, Crew, Reviews, Plot Summary, Comments, Discussions, Taglines, Trailers, Posters, Fan Sites
- Palin's Travels: Sahara - Series Homepage
- Michael Palin - Sahara.
- Sahara Travel
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- Sahara Overland ~ the book and online resource
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