WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Sahara is the world’s largest hot desert, covering 8.5 million square kilometers (3.3 million square miles), about the size of the South American country of Brazil.

Detailed explanation-2: -the Living Africa: the land-Sahara Desert-Physical Features. The Sahara’s topographical features include shallow basins, large oasis depressions, serirs or regs (gravel-covered plains), plateaus, mountains, sand sheets, dunes and sand seas (ergs).

Detailed explanation-3: -The principal topographical features of the Sahara include shallow, seasonally inundated basins (chotts and dayas) and large oasis depressions; extensive gravel-covered plains (serirs or regs); rock-strewn plateaus (hammadas); abrupt mountains; and sand sheets, dunes, and sand seas (ergs).

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -The Sahara Desert, the largest of its kind anywhere in the world, is over 10.4 million km2 n North to south is approx. 1800 kms and east-west is 5600km. In terms of structure and relief features, Africa appears to be different from the other continents.