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The Sahara Desert is the largest subtropical, hot desert in the world with covering more than 9,000,000 squares kilometers (nearly as large as the United States) and the third-largest desert in the world, behind the Antarctica and the Arctic, which are considered as being cold deserts. The Sahara Desert is also the world's hottest desert, in terms of extreme heat and annual average high temperature.

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