The hottest temperature ever reliably measured in a desert was 134 degrees F in Death Valley of the Mojave Desert in 1913. The area of the Mojave is 124,000 square kilometers or 48,000 square miles.
Much desert is the area of France indeed.
the Syrian Desert
The Mojave desert does not have much altitude, but if where ever is closest to the sun and out in the open is the hottest.
There is no single desert that covers the earth. There are about 28 major deserts that, combined, cover about 1/3 of the earth's land area.
Fully one third of the earth's land surface is cover by desert.
A desert will cool off much more quickly as there is little humidity or cloud cover that would hold in the heat of the day.
The following deserts cover much of west central Australia:Great Victoria Desert Gibson Desert Great Sandy Desert Tanami Desert Simpson Desert
The Sahara desert covers most of the North Africa. It is the hottest desert in the world and is also the third largest desert, about the size of China or the United States.
No, but much of the agricultural land is water dependent and marginal at best without irrigation.Clarification:Much of western Colorado lies in what is known as the Colorado Plateau Desert. From about Grand Junction west to the Utah border is desert and semi-arid land.
Not all deserts are hot. Some deserts are cold. Antarctica, for example, is technically mostly a desert. Deserts tend to have more extreme temperatures because they don't have much cloud cover. That means during the daytime, they get more sun, and at night, there's no cloud cover to reflect warmth back downward, so a lot of it escapes into space.
the Continent of Africa
No Europe does not touch the Sahara desert, the Sahara is in Africa.