** Located in the north-east of the continent of Africa, the continent to the west in the form of a rectangular length of almost 5000 km from the extended north to south, amounts to 2,000 km
** Called the Sahara Africa, a broader and deserts of the world's largest in terms of area, where the 9665000 square kilometers.
** Include all of Western Sahara, Mauritania, Algeria, Libya, Egypt and the southern parts of the Kingdom of Morocco, Tunisia and the northern parts of Sudan and subdivided into the following:
- Egyptian Western Desert, which extends between the Nile Valley in the west and the Libyan border.
- Eastern Desert, which is limited between the Nile and the Red Sea in Egypt.
- Libyan desert.
- Nubian desert and running northeast Sudan.
** Sliding surface towards the north, but the surface is not without stiff rims like Green Mountain and the heights of Tripoli and in the south rise the mountains and highlands Owaynat Tbsta It is the remnants of an ancient mountain ranges altered erosion became mountainous blocks
* How has a group of depressions characterized by the presence of the famous oases, such as low Fayoum oasis of Siwa and Dakhla and Kharga oases.
* The spread in the land of the plateau range of dry valleys such as the Valley of deadlines and the Valley of the beach in the Fezzan region in Libya and Dharor Valley, Qena and pelvis and Ogrger.
The sand dunes covers large areas of Aceh and Arab African plateau which is a characteristic of the names of the deserts in particular:
** Deserts race.
** Hamada configurations.
** Bed configurations.
التسميات
Plateaus Arab world