Sahara
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The Sahara is a desert spanning North Africa. With an area of 9,200,000 square kilometres, it is the largest hot desert in the world and the third-largest desert overall, smaller only than the deserts
The Sahara taken by Apollo 17 astronauts, 1972
An oasis in the Ahaggar Mountains
Sand dunes in the Algerian Sahara
Camel train at sunset in the Sahara
Sub-Saharan Africa
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Sub-Saharan Africa is the areas and regions of the continent of Africa that lie south of the Sahara. These include Central Africa, East Africa, Southern Africa, and West Africa. Geopolitically, in add
Sahara
…to coastal plains. To the south it is bounded by the Sahel, a belt of semi-arid tropical savanna around the Niger River valley and the Sudan region of sub-Saharan Africa. The Sahara can be divided into several regions, including the western Sahara, the central Ahaggar Mountains, the Tibesti Mountains, the Aïr Mountains…
Stone chopping tool from Olduvai Gorge
Nok sculpture, terracotta, Louvre
Fictionalised portrait of Nzinga, queen of the Ndongo and Matamba kingdoms
Sphinx of the Nubian Emperor Taharqa