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Q: What desert occupies one third of Africa?
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How much of north Africa is covered by desert?

About one third of Africa is covered by the Sahara Desert. Most of northern Africa is desert.


What portion of Africa is desert?

The northern third of Africa is nearly covered by the Sahara.


What occupies about one-third of the surface of the earth?

the ocean - the pasific ocean takes up a third i think


What is the present day name for the desert region covering northern Africa?

The Sahara Desert covers about one third of Africa and is located in the north of the continent.


What continent does the Sahara desert cover a third of?

The Sahara covers about one third of the African continent.


What does the Sahara desert cover most?

The Sahara covers most of the northern part of Africa ( One third ).


If Africa were separated into thirds how much of it does the Sahara Desert cover?

The Sahara would cover nearly a third f the African continent.


What percentage of Africa is desert?

Percentage of Africa That Is Desert The Sahara Desert covers about one-third of Africa, so about 33 to 34 percent of Africa is desert. Though many believe most of Africa is desert and/or rainforest, or jungle, the largest vegetative zone in Africa is tropical grassland.Clarification:There are two additional deserts in Africa - the Kalahari and the Namib. Total desert land covers over 40% of Africa.


What spans most of north Africa and covers an area of land about the size of the United States?

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 worlds largest desert in the Sahara?

Sahara is A desert. ONE desert. It is Not divided into sub-deserts. Sahara is in Africa.


One reason the cultures of North Africa developed differently from the cultures of the rest of Africa was that these areas of Africa were separated by the?

sahara desert


What is the great desert of Africa?

The great desert of Africa is the Sahara Desert. It receives less than 3 inches of rain a year. It is one of the hottest places on Earth.