The Sahara in North Africa is the largest hot desert in the world.
At its greatest length it is 5,150 km (3,200 miles) from east to west. From north to south it is between 1,280 and 2,250 km (800 and 1,400 miles).
The area covered by the desert is about 9.1 million km (9,100,000 sq km/ 3.5 million square miles).
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(Algeria, Egypt, Libya,Morocco, Sudan,Tunisia), North Africa