Sand dunes in the Sahara desert in Africa. The Sahara Desert is the world’s largest hot desert, located in northern Africa. The climate is hot and dry, with temperatures recorded as high as 50°C.

Africa has nine deserts in total but none are arguably as famous as the Sahara. The Sahara is the largest hot desert on Earth, covering 3.5 million square miles - an area roughly the size of the ...

Follow the three years of battles in the North African desert, and see how Axis and Allied forces chased each other across this hostile terrain.

Bir Tawil is a 2,060-square-kilometer stretch of desert in Africa that no country claims. Between Egypt and Sudan ... Bir ...