Sahara
Other than the vast expanses of ice desert in the Antarctic and Arctic, the Sahara, encompassing most of northern Africa, is the world's largest desert. Western Libya…| Tap on the map to travel |
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Sahara
- Type: Desert
- Description: desert on the African continent
- Location: Africa
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Latitude of centre
22.25° or 22° 15' northLongitude of centre
9.8° or 9° 48' eastOpenStreetMap ID
node 9412354612OpenStreetMap Feature
natural=desertWikidata ID
Q6583Sahara Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Aneẓruf Ameqran
- Afar: Saxara
- Afrikaans: Sahara
- Albanian: Sahara
- Albanian: Saharaja
- Amharic: ሰሃራ በረሃ
- Amharic: ሰሐራ በረሓ
- Angika: सहारा
- Arabic: Sahara
- Arabic: الصحراء الكبرى
- Aragonese: Desierto d'o Sahara
- Aragonese: Disierto d'o Sahara
- Armenian: Սահարա
- Armenian: Սահարա Անապատ
- Armenian: Սահարա անապատ
- Assamese: চাহাৰা
- Assamese: চাহাৰা মৰুভূমি
- Asturian: Desiertu d'El Sáḥara
- Asturian: El Sáḥara
- Avaric: СахIара
- Avaric: СахӀара
- Awadhi: सहारा मरुभूमी
- Azerbaijani: Sahara
- Azerbaijani: Saxara
- Balinese: Gurun Sahara
- Bashkir: Сахара
- Bashkir: Сахара сүллеге
- Basque: Sahara
- Bavarian: Sahara
- Belarusian: Пустыня Сахара
- Belarusian: Сахара
- Bengali: সাহারা মরুভূমি
- Bhojpuri: सहारा
- Bislama: Draeples blong Sahara
- Bosnian: Sahara
- Breton: Sahara
- Bulgarian: Сахара
- Burmese: ဆဟာရ သဲကန္တာရ
- Catalan: Sàhara
- Cebuano: Sahara
- Central Kurdish: بیابانی مەزن
- Central Kurdish: بیابانی گەورە
- Central Kurdish: سەحارا
- Central Kurdish: سەحرای گەورە
- Central Kurdish: سەھارا
- Chechen: Сахара
- Chechen: Саьхьара
- Cherokee: ᏌᎭᏩ
- Chinese: Sahara
- Chinese: 撒哈拉
- Chinese: 撒哈拉沙漠
- Chuvash: Сахара
- Cornish: Sahara
- Corsican: Sahara
- Crimean Tatar: Büyük Sahra
- Croatian: Sahara
- Czech: Sahara
- Dagbani: Amaada
- Danish: Sahara
- Dimli (individual language): Sehra
- Dinka: Panliɛ̈tdït
- Dotyali: सहारा मरुभूमी
- Dutch: Sahara
- Eastern Mari: Сахара
- Egyptian Arabic: الصحرا الكبرى
- English: Desart
- English: Desert
- English: Great Desert
- English: Saara
- English: Sahara Desert
- English: Saharra
- English: The Sahara
- English: Zaara
- English: Zahara
- English: Zara
- English: al-Sahara
- English: al-Sahra
- English: as-Sahra
- English: as-Sahra al-Kubra
- English: aṣ-Ṣaḥrāʾ al-Kubrā
- English: the Desart
- English: the Desert
- English: the Great Desert
- Esperanto: Saharo
- Estonian: Sahara
- Extremaduran: Sáhara
- Faroese: Sahara
- Fiji Hindi: Sahara
- Finnish: Sahara
- French: Grand-Désert
- French: Sahara
- French: désert du Sahara
- Friulian: Desert dal Sahara
- Galician: Deserto do Sáhara
- Gan Chinese: 撒哈拉
- Georgian: საჰარა
- German: Sahara
- Greek: Σαχάρα
- Guarani: Saára
- Guianese Creole French: Sahara
- Gujarati: Sahara
- Gun: Sahara
- Hakka Chinese: Sat-hâ-là
- Hausa: Sahara
- Hebrew: סהרה
- Hebrew: צחרה
- Hindi: सहारा मरुस्थल
- Hungarian: Szahara
- Icelandic: Sahara
- Ido: Sahara
- Igbo: Sahara
- Igbo: Ọzara Sahara
- Iloko: Sahara
- Indonesian: Gurun Sahara
- Ingush: Сахьаре
- Interlingua: Sahara
- Interlingue: Sahara
- Irish: An Sahára
- Italian: Africa sahariana
- Italian: Sahara
- Italian: Tassili
- Italian: aṣ-Ṣaḥrāʾ
- Italian: aṣ-Ṣaḥrāʾ al-Kubrā
- Italian: deserto del Sahara
- Jamaican Creole English: Sa'aara
- Japanese: サハラ砂漠
- Javanese: Ara-ara Sahara
- Javanese: Sahara
- Kabardian: Сахара
- Kabiyè: Sahara Kañɩnbʊsaɣ
- Kabyle: Aneẓruf Ameqran
- Kannada: ಸಹಾರ
- Kara-Kalpak: Saxara sho'listanlıg'ı
- Karachay-Balkar: Сахара
- Kashubian: Sahara
- Kazakh: Сахара
- Kinyarwanda: Ubutayu bwa sahara
- Kirghiz: Сакар чөлү
- Korean: 사하라 사막
- Kurdish: Sahara
- Ladin: Sahara
- Ladino: Desyerto del Sahara
- Lak: Сахара
- Lao: Sahara
- Latin: Sahara
- Latvian: Sahāra
- Lezghian: Сахара
- Limburgan: Sahara
- Lingua Franca Nova: Sahara
- Lithuanian: Sachara
- Lojban: sa'aras.zei kutytu'a
- Lombard: Sahara
- Low German: Sahara
- Lower Sorbian: Sahara
- Luxembourgish: Sahara
- Macedonian: Сахара
- Maithili: सहारा मरुभूमी
- Malagasy: Sahara
- Malay: Gurun Sahara
- Malayalam: സഹാറ
- Maltese: Saħara
- Marathi: सहारा
- Mazanderani: آفريخا گت سحرا
- Mazanderani: آفريقا گت صحرا
- Min Dong Chinese: Sahara
- Min Nan Chinese: Sahara
- Minangkabau: Gurun Sahara
- Mingrelian: საჰარა
- Mongolian: Сахарын цөл
- Nepali: सहारा
- Nepali: सहारा मरुभूमि
- Nepali: सहारा मरुभूमी
- Newari: सहारा
- Nigerian Pidgin: Sahara
- Northern Frisian: Sahara
- Norwegian: Sahara
- Norwegian Bokmål: Sahara
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Sahara
- Occitan (post 1500): Sahara
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): ܨܚܪܐܐ
- Ossetian: Сахарæ
- Panjabi: ਸਹਾਰਾ ਮਾਰੂਥਲ
- Persian: صحرای بزرگ آفریقا
- Picard: Saara
- Piemontese: Sahara
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: Sahara
- Polish: Sahara
- Portuguese: Deserto do Saara
- Portuguese: Deserto do Sara
- Portuguese: Saara
- Portuguese: Sara
- Portuguese: deserto do Saara
- Pushto: د افریقا صحرا
- Quechua: Sahara
- Romanian: Sahara
- Russia Buriat: Сахара
- Russian: Сахара
- Rusyn: Сагара
- Samogitian: Sachara
- Sanskrit: सहारा
- Santali: ᱥᱟᱦᱟᱨᱟ
- Sardinian: Sahara
- Saterfriesisch: Sahara
- Scots: Sahara
- Scottish Gaelic: Fàsach Sahara
- Serbian: Сахара
- Serbo-Croatian: Sahara
- Shona: Sahara
- Sicilian: Sahara
- Silesian: Sahara
- Sinhala: සහරා කාන්තාරය
- Slovak: Sahara
- Slovenian: Sahara
- Somali: Lamadegaanka Saxara
- Somali: Saxaara
- South Azerbaijani: بؤیوک صحرا
- Spanish: Sahara
- Spanish: Sáhara
- Spanish: desierto del Sahara
- Swahili: Sahara
- Swedish: Sahara
- Swiss German: Sahara
- Tagalog: Sahara
- Tajik: Саҳрои бузург
- Tamil: சகாரா
- Tatar: Сахра
- Telugu: సహారా ఎడారి
- Thai: ซาฮารา
- Thai: ทะเลทรายสะฮารา
- Tibetan: ས་ཧ་ར་བྱེ་ཐང་ཆེན་པོ།
- Tok Pisin: Sahara
- Tosk Albanian: Sahara
- Turkish: Büyük Sahra
- Turkish: Sahra
- Turkmen: Sahara
- Tyap: Sa̱hara
- Tyap: Tswa a̱ji̱jak Sa̱hara
- Tyap: aṣ-Ṣaḥrāʾ al-Kubrā
- Udmurt: Сахара
- Uighur: سەھرايى كەبىر
- Ukrainian: Сахара
- Upper Sorbian: Sahara
- Urdu: صحرائے اعظم
- Uzbek: Sahroi Kabir
- Venetian: Sahara
- Veps: Saharan rahvahatoi ma
- Vietnamese: Sa mạc Sahara
- Volapük: Saharän
- Võro: Sahara
- Walloon: Sara
- Waray (Philippines): Disyerto Sahara
- Welsh: Sahara
- Western Armenian: Սահարա Անապատ
- Western Frisian: Sahara
- Western Mari: Сахара
- Western Panjabi: صحارا
- Western Panjabi: صحراۓ اعظم
- Wolof: Saara
- Wu Chinese: 撒哈拉沙漠
- Yakut: Саhаара
- Yiddish: סאהארא
- Yoruba: Sàhárà
- Yue Chinese: 撒哈拉
- Deserte d'u Sahara
- Deserto del Sahara
- Сэхарэ
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