Did you know that deserts occupy more than 25% of the total geography of Africa? Learn what differentiates the Gobi from the Sahara, northern deserts from southern, and more.
Sahara, the vast desert of northern Africa, and the world's largest arid region. It occupies much of the broad northern half of Africa and covers some 3,500,000 square miles (9,000,000 km2), an area only slightly less than that of the United States. See more »
Sahara, the vast desert of northern Africa, and the world's largest arid region. It occupies much of the broad northern half of Africa and covers some 3,500,000 square miles (9,000,000 km2), an area only slightly less than that of the United States.
See more »Atlas Mountains, a mountain system of northwestern Africa. It extends generally northeast-southwest for about 1,500 miles (2,400 km) across Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia.
See more »Kalahari Desert, a semiarid to arid region in southern Africa, mainly in Botswana, South Africa, and Namibia.
See more »Libyan Desert, part of the Sahara. It covers some 500,000 square miles (1,300,000 km2) in Libya, Egypt, and Sudan and consists mainly of gravelly plains, rock outcrops, and vast areas of shifting sand dunes.
See more »Namib Desert, an arid coastal region in Namibia (South-West Africa). It extends about 1,000 miles (1,600 km) from Angola in the north to South Africa in the south.
See more »Tanezrouft, a large, stony section of the Sahara. It is a flat expanse, stretching from northern Mali to the Ahaggar mountains of Algeria.
See more »Western Sahara, formerly Spanish Sahara, a region in northwestern Africa. It makes up the southernmost provinces of Morocco.
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