- The monolithic Sahara Desert encompasses much of North Africa. Covering an area of 9,400,000 km2 (3,600,000 sq mi) the Sahara almost equals China in size.
- The awesome Sahara is the largest desert on the planet earth, with an estimated size of between seven and nine million square kilometres (9,000,000 sq km).
- Other common plants in the Sahara desert include Laperrine’s olive tree, Saharan cypress, doum palm, tamarisk, desert gourd, and acacia.
- Due to the high temperatures and arid conditions of the Sahara Desert, the plant life in the Sahara Desert is sparse and includes only around 500 species.
- A little-known interesting fact is that the Sahara Desert is often cited as the largest desert in the world, the Sahara is actually the third largest.
- The name Sahara is taken from the Arabic word for ‘desert’. The Sahara cover an area of 9.2 million km². The Sahara is the largest hot desert in the world.
- Today, the Sahara has a dry, inhospitable desert climate. However, it alternates between harsh desert and another extreme — a lush, green oasis — every 20...
- Sand dunes in the Sahara Desert, Merzouga, Morocco. The Sahara Desert is larger than the area of the contiguous United States.
- During the century of colonial dominion over the Sahara Desert, which lasted from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century, there was little fundamental change
- Landscapes of the Sahara desert. The Sahara’s landscape not only includes sand dunes but also mountains, plateaus, extinct volcanoes and oasis depressions.