Sahara
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Area
9.20M km²
Coordinates
23.0000, 13.0000
Category
deserts
Overview
The world's largest hot desert - as big as the United States.
About
The Sahara is a desert spanning North Africa. 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.
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