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What is the world's largest desert area of about 3 million square miles?
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∙ 9y ago
The largest desert in the world is much larger than 3 million square miles. Antarctica is the largest desert at 5,400,000 square miles.
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What is the size of the worlds largest desert?
Antarctica - 14,000,000 square km or 5,400,000 square miles.
Worlds largest desert?
thar desert
Is Sahara desert the second largest desert?
It is the largest "hot" desert in the world and second in size after the Antarctic Desert, which is the worlds largest "cold" desert
What continent has the worlds largest river and desert?
Egypt has the worlds longest river, the Nile. It also contains part of the Sahara Desert, the world largest desert.
What country is the worlds largest desert in?
Antarctica :)
What continent is the worlds largest desert in?
Africa
Which continent has the worlds largest desert?
The largest desert in the world is the Antarctic Desert on the continent of Antarctica.
Which continent is the worlds largest desert?
Antarctica is the world's largest desert located on the continent of the same name.
What's the largest desert in the Earth?
The largest desert on earth is Antarctica.Well technically,the worlds largest desert is Antarctica but the worlds largest HOT desert would be the Sahara.The name of the world's largest desert is the Sahara in northern Africa.The largest desert in the world is Antarctica.The Sahara in Africa.the biggest sand desert in the earth is the Sahara desert. the biggest arctic desert is AntarcticaAntarctica is the biggest polar desert in the world.The Sahara Desert in Northern Africa spans an area measured roughly at probably 3-3.5 million square miles. Which is probably one of the biggest non polar desert.The Sahara Desert Sahara is the largest desert in the world, encompassing almost all of northern Africa. Covering an area of about 3.3 million sq mi (8.6 million sq km), it is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the Atlas Mountains, the Mediterranean Sea, the Red Sea, and the Sahel region. It includes portions of several countries, including Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Chad, and The Sudan.Sahara desert. Area = 9.65 million sq km.IN ADDITION:By receiving less than 2 inches of rainfall per year, Antarctica is considered a desert. At 14.4 million square kilometers (5.4 million square miles), It is the largest desert on the planet Earth.The largest desert in the world is named the Antarctic Desert. It is a huge polar desert covering much of Antarctica.A desert is a region of land that receives less than 250 mm of rain per year. Thus, the largest desert is the Antarctic with an area of 18 million km2 in winter. This is followed by the Arctic (which is also an ocean) with an area of 15 million km2 in winter and the Sahara with an area of roughly 8.6 million km2.
The worlds largest desert in the Sahara?
Sahara is A desert. ONE desert. It is Not divided into sub-deserts. Sahara is in Africa.
What is the worlds largest desert spanning all of northern Africa?
The Sahara Desert
What is the worlds largest hot desert and the worlds second largest desert?
The largest HOT desert would be the Sahara, in northern Africa. The continent of Antarctica is generally defined as a 'desert', due to the fairly low precipitation (snow) that actually falls there. The second largest 'hot' desert is the Takla Makan in western China.
