Fun fact 3 about Sahara
desert
Lake Chad is a remnant of a former inland sea called paleolake Mega-Chad, which existed during the African humid period.
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Sahara
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9.20M km²
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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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