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Does the Sahara Desert stretch across the northern half of Africa?
The Sahara Desert is in the continent Africa.
What is the relative location for the Sahara Desert?
The Sahara covers most of the northern half of Africa.
What are the major desert regions in Africa?
The Sahara covers most of north Africa and the Kalahari is located in southern Africa.
What is the desert that covers most of Africa?
The Sahara covers nearly all of the top half of Africa.
What portion of Africa is desert?
The northern third of Africa is nearly covered by the Sahara.
What is the largest the gobi desert libyan desert Sahara desert or the sonoran desert?
Sahara is in Africa. Sonora is in the US. Gobi is in China/Mongolia.
Why does half of Africa receive less then 50 cm of rainfall per year?
It is because of the presence of Sahara desert , which causes the dryness in the air.
What desert is located in the western part of Egypt?
Generally speaking, the Sahara forms the Western Half of Egypt. There are more specific names for parts of this desert such as the Libyan Desert and the Nubian Desert, but most people refer to it as the Sahara. (Sahara is an Arabic word for a large desert.)
Which desert makes up the northern half of Sudan?
The Sahara Desert covers much of Sudan.
Does the sahel often suffer from droughts?
The Sahel is zone of transition in Africa between the Sahara Desert to the north and the Savanna grasslands to the south. As such it has a semi arid climate (it is half desert!). Therefore it is almost permanently in drought.
How large is Africa's desert?
Its northern half is primarily desert or arid, while its central and southern areas contain both savanna plains and very dense jungle (rainforest) regions. In between, there is a convergence where vegetation patterns such as sahel, and steppe dominate.
What country does the Negev Desert cover?
The Negev Desert covers most of the southern half of Israel.
