List of deserts in Africa
This is a non-exhaustive list of deserts in Africa . Over 40% of the continent is covered with the deserts of Africa .
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Surname | image | place | Type | Area (km²) |
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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 ) |
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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 |