GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -The Sahara Desert is the world’s largest hot desert and the third largest desert behind Antarctica and the Arctic. Located in North Africa, it covers large sections of the continent-covering 9, 200, 000 square kilometers which is comparable to the are of China or the US!

Detailed explanation-2: -In Arabic the Sahara is called Al-Ṣaḥrāʾ al-Kubrā, or “the Great Desert.” The Arabic word ṣaḥrāʾ simply means “desert, ‘’ and its plural form, ṣaḥārāʾ, is where the northern African desert gets its Anglicized name.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Sahara is the largest desert in Africa, and the largest hot desert in the world – with summer temperatures reaching 122 °F (50 °C) – and stretching across 12 North African countries. The desert was created around 7 million years ago, as remnants of a vast sea called Tethys closed up.