The third largest desert is the Arabian Desert. Only Antarctica and the Sahara are larger.
North AfricaThe Sahara is located in northern Africa and covers nearly a third of the continent.The Sahara occupies most of the northern third of the African continent. It is the largest hot desert in the world and second largest desert overall. Only the Antarctic Desert is larger.
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 covers most of Northern Africa.
The Sahara Desert covers most of North Africa. The Sahara Desert is the largest subtropical hot desert and third largest desert in the world, after Antarctica and the Arctic.
The Arabian Desert is the third largest behind Antarctica and the Sahara.
The largest Polar desert is in ... Antarctica!
The Sahara Desert is in the continent Africa.
The largest desert in the world is not in Africa, it is in Antarctica. The Sahara is the largest desert in Africa, however.
The Sahara covers nearly all of the northern third of Africa. It is the second largest desert on earth and largest hot desert. By the way, the word Sahara means desert so to call it the Sahara Desert is a redundancy. It is simply called the Sahara.
The Sahara covers most of the top third of Africa.
The sahara 'stretches' across the northern third of Africa.