Sahara
About Sahara
The Sahara is a desert spanning North Africa. With an area of 9,200,000 square kilometres (3,600,000 sq mi), it is the largest hot desert in the world and the third-largest desert overall, smaller only than the deserts of Antarctica and the northern Arctic.
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People who smuggle drugs north across the Sahara often fill the empty trucks with subsidised pasta to smuggle back south to places like the Ivory Coast.
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More facts about Sahara
In the middle of the Sahara there is a huge blue swirl, striking from space, first spotted by Gemini 4 in 1965, and we still don't know what it is.
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Sahara dust storms carry things vast distances: a fungus blown from the Sahara caused a disease that killed off loads of Caribbean coral in 1999.
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There have been plans to flood the below-sea-level depressions in the Sahara, turning part of North Africa into a massive inland lake.
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The Marathon des Sables, run in the Sahara, is intensely dehydrating.
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