9.1 millions Km2
The area of Sahara Desert - ecoregion - is 4,619,260 square kilometers.
The Sahara Desert
The entire Sahara is dry. That is why it is called a desert.
Africa has the largest area of hot desert because Sahara desert and Kalahari desert is in Africa and Sahara desert and Kalahari desert are hotter than the other deserts
Using 9,000,000 sq. km as the area of the Sahara (from Wikipedia), if the Sahara were a country, it would rank just between Brasil (8,514,877 sq. km) and China (9,598,094 sq. km). The United States is the next larger country at 9,629,091 sq. km. So no country is the "same" size as the Sahara based on these figures.
The Sahara desert.
Yes but its also located in Egypt.The Sahara is not located in Nigeria and has no border with Nigeria. The Sahara is the world's largest hot desert, almost as large as Europe and North America and located in Northern Africa.It covers most part of the following countries, Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Western Sahara, Sudan and Tunisia.
The total area of the Sahara is almost 9.1 million square kilometres (3.5 million sq miles). That is about 25% of the total area of Africa
The Sahel, a grassland, is directly south of the Sahara Desert.The Sahel, a grassland, is directly south of the Sahara Desert.
The Nubian Desert is a small area of the larger Sahara.
No it is predominantly inland, although some of the desert area do run along the coast
The Sahara desert is 3.6 million square miles in kilometers. The Sahara desert is also known as The Great Desert.