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= Sahara = The Sahara (Arabic: الصَحراء الكُبرى‎, aṣ-ṣaḥrā´ al-koubra, "The Great Desert") is the world's largest hot desert and the world's second largest desert after Antarctica [1]. At over 9,000,000 square kilometres (3,500,000 sq mi), it covers most parts of Northern Africa; an area stretching from the Red Sea, including parts of the Mediterranean coasts, to the outskirts of the Atlantic Ocean. To the south, it is delimited by the Sahel, a belt of semi-arid tropical savanna separating the Sahara from Sub-Saharan Africa. The Sahara is almost as large as the continental United States, and is larger than Australia. The Sahara has an intermittent history that may go back as much as 3 million years.[2] Some of the sand dunes can reach 180 meters (600 feet) in height.[3] Its name comes from the Tamajaq Tuareg language word Tenere, which means the desert, translated into the Arabic it gave Sahara "desert": (صَحراء), "ṣaḥrā´" (صحراء (help·info)).[4][5] But the original name of the Sahara is: Tinariwen (the deserts), as for the indigenous people of the Sahara, the Tuareg people, the Sahara is not a desert, but many deserts, distinct and different in nature and landscapes.

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