Arabian desert
The Arabian Desert ( Arabic الصحراء الشرقية, DMG aṣ-Ṣaḥrāʾ aš-Šarqīya , English Eastern Desert , both literally "Eastern Desert") is for the most part in Egypt and, next to the Nubian Desert, is the easternmost sub-desert of the Sahara in Africa . Large parts of eastern Sudan and western Eritrea also have shares in this part of the Sahara.
The desert is a dry area of around 220,000 km² . It extends northeast of Lake Nasser between the Nile and the Red Sea . The Nubian Desert is located south of Lake Nasser in Sudan .
It is a mountain desert. The scale ranges from gentle hills over rounded low mountain ranges to mighty, steep and craggy high mountain ranges with a height of up to 2300 m. The heights and mountains, arranged in certain trains, rise from narrow, up to kilometers wide dry valleys, the wadis . These are filled with mostly finer rubble and the finest sand. As easily accessible and navigable valleys, they form a natural outcrop of the mountains due to their cutting and criss-crossing course. In the absence of any vegetation, the mountains appear in the colors of the rocks that make up them: the high mountain ranges in the red of granite , the low mountain ranges in darker or lighter green of the basalts and diabase . The wadis that run to their feet usually show these different colors in a clearly delineated manner.
There are three national parks or protected areas in the Arabian Desert: Gebel Elba National Park , the protected area Wādī al-ʿAlāqī and Wadi-al-Gamal .
On the edge of the Arabian Desert are various larger cities such as Aswan in Egypt, Port Sudan and Khartoum in Sudan and Tessenei in Eritrea.
Desert landscape near Hurghada on the Red Sea in Egypt
Aerial view, clear terracing and alluvial land recognizable
Close to the Red Sea at Kalawy Bay
