List of deserts in Africa

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This is a non-exhaustive list of deserts in Africa . Over 40% of the continent is covered with the deserts of Africa .

list

Surname	image	place	Type	Area (km²)
Arabian desert		Egypt and is next to the Nubian Desert the easternmost part of the Sahara desert		220,000
Great sandy desert of Bilma		North-south direction over almost 150 kilometers from Bilma to Agadem ( Niger )	Sand desert
Danakil Somalia		Northeast Africa		136,956
Erg Chebbi		Morocco
Erg Chech		Southwest of the Algerian Sahara , across the border to the north of Mali and the east of Mauritania
Erg Chegaga		Morocco		150
Hammada du Draa		Rock plateau in the Sahara - Tindouf province in the far west of Algeria	Stone and rock desert
Hammada du Guir		Rock plateau in the Sahara - Bechar province of southwest Algeria	Stone and rock desert
Kalahari		southern tropic from the South African province of Northern Cape through Namibia and Botswana	Deserts and xeric shrublands , partly also dry savannah is, but sometimes because of the prevailing sand as desert called	over one million
Karoo		Plateaus of the country South Africa , north of the Great Peripheral Step and in southern Namibia	Semi-desert landscape	500,000
Knersvlakte		South Africa	Semi-desert
Libyan desert		Libya , Egypt and Sudan , part of the Sahara	Sand, rubble and rock desert	17% of the Sahara (1.5 to 9 million)
Namib		Namibia and Angola and contains the national parks Namib-Naukluft , Tsau-ǁKhaeb- (restricted area) and Skeleton Coast	Coastal desert	81,000
Nubian desert		North Africa and together with the Arabian Desert forms the easternmost part of the Sahara desert		400,000
Eastern Great Erg		Northern Algeria , the northeastern part of the Erg extends into Tunisia
Qattara Depression		Depression of the Libyan desert in Egypt and lies in its northwestern governorate of Matruh		18,000
Sahara		African Atlantic coast to the Red Sea coast	Arid desert	9 million (just under the area of ​​the entire USA or about 26 times the area of Germany )
Setjet		Ancient Egyptian name for the desert areas that were east of Retjenu on the Sinai Peninsula or behind it
Sketic desert		Desert valley ( wadi ) used as the foothills of the Sahara ( Libyan Desert about 100 km) southeast of the Egyptian port city of Alexandria and southwest of the Nile Delta is located
Talak		Niger	Sand desert	100,000
Ténéré		south of the Sahara in northern Niger	Sand desert	400,000
White desert		Egyptian part of the Libyan desert about 30 kilometers northeast of the Farafra oasis and 130 kilometers southwest of the Bahariya oasis , and 420 km southwest of Cairo		3010 with an additional buffer zone of 971
Western Great Erg		Northern Algeria	Erg , a sea of ​​sand in the Sahara