Sahara
The Sahara is the world's second largest desert (second to Antarctica), over 9,000,000 km² (3,500,000 mi²), located in northern Africa and is 2.5 million years old. The entire land area of the United States of America would fit inside it. Its name, Sahara, is an English pronunciation of the word for desert in Arabic (صحراء {{Audio|ar-Sahara.ogg|arabic pronunciation}}).
References
- Michael Brett and Elizabeth Frentess. The Berbers. Blackwell Publishers. 1996.
- Hugh Kennedy. Muslim Spain and Portugal: A Political History of al-Andalus. Longman, 1996.
- Abdallah Laroui. The History of the Maghrib: An Interpretive Essay. Princeton, 1977.
- Charles-Andre Julien. History of North Africa: From the Arab Conquest to 1830. Praeger, 1970
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| ► | Introduction |
| ► | Overview |
| ► | History |
| ► | Ecology : Sahara ecoregions |
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