{"id":27003,"date":"2024-10-03T05:31:46","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T00:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=27003"},"modified":"2025-04-08T06:24:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T00:54:18","slug":"sahara-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/sahara-desert\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Facts about Sahara Desert"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Sahara Desert:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Sahara, located in <strong>Northern Africa<\/strong>, is the <strong>world&#8217;s largest hot desert<\/strong> and the third most extensive desert after the polar deserts of Antarctica and the northern Arctic.<\/li>\n<li>It spans over 9,200,000 sq. km (8% of the earth\u2019s land area).<\/li>\n<li>The Sahara Desert encompasses a major portion of North Africa, occupying about <strong>31% of the entire African continent.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The countries within the Sahara Desert are <strong>Morocco, Mali, Mauritania, Egypt, Libya, Algeria<\/strong>, <strong>Chad, the Niger Republic<\/strong>, some parts of <strong>Sudan<\/strong>, a small portion of <strong>Nigeria<\/strong>, and a small part of <strong>Burkina Faso.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The desert is bounded by the <strong>Mediterranean Sea<\/strong> and the <strong>Atlas Mountains<\/strong> on the northern side; the <strong>Red Sea<\/strong> on the eastern side; the <strong>Atlantic Ocean<\/strong> on the western side and the <strong>semiarid Sahel region<\/strong> on the southern side.<\/li>\n<li>The majority of the Sahara is made up of barren, rocky plateaus, as well as salt flats, sand dunes, mountains, and dry valleys.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>large Nile and Niger rivers,<\/strong> along with the seasonal lakes and aquifers, provide the main source of water for the major desert oases.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>highest peak<\/strong> in the Sahara is<strong> Emi Koussi<\/strong> (3,415m), a volcano <strong>located in the Tibesti Mountains, Chad.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Sahel region<\/strong> serves as a <strong>transition zone between the hot desert<\/strong> in the north and the <strong>humid savannas of Sub-Saharan Africa<\/strong> in the south.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1<\/strong>: What are dunes?<\/h3>\n<p>A dune is a mound of sand formed by the wind, usually along the beach or in a desert. Dunes form when wind blows sand into a sheltered area behind an obstacle. Dunes grow as grains of sand accumulate.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/science\/nasa-shares-stunning-images-of-unusual-greenery-in-the-sahara-desert-following-rainfall\/articleshow\/113702422.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NASA shares stunning images of unusual greenery in the Sahara Desert following rainfall<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sahara, located in Northern Africa, is the world&#8217;s largest hot desert and the third most extensive desert after the polar deserts of Antarctica and the northern Arctic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":27004,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27003","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}