Question

Sahara desert is located in which part of Africa?
a. Eastern
b. Northern
c. Western
d. Southern

Answer 1

Hint:
The Sahara desert is the world's third-largest desert in Africa. Situated in the south of the continent of Africa, this country is a peninsula, with the Indian Ocean in the east and the Atlantic Ocean in the west. Its southernmost tip is called 'Cape of good hope'. This country is a high plateau, whose height has decreased from east to west. The eastern high is called the 'Drakensberg Mountains'. Its slope is quite sharp and the staircase in the east. It is also the origin of the river 'Wala' and 'Orange'.

Complete solution:
The Sahara desert is a desert on the African continent. With an area of ​​9,200,000 square kilometres (3,600,000 sq mi), it is the largest hot desert in the world and the third-largest desert overall, smaller than the deserts of Antarctica and the Arctic only.

The desert comprises much of North Africa, except for the fertile area off the Mediterranean coast, the Atlas Mountains of the Maghreb and the Nile Valley in Egypt and Sudan. It extends from the Red Sea in the east and the Mediterranean Sea in the north to the Atlantic Ocean in the west, where the landscape gradually changes from desert to coastal plains. To the south, it is surrounded by the Sahel, a belt of semi-arid tropical savannas around the Niger River Valley and the Sudan region of sub-Saharan Africa. The Sahara can be divided into several regions, including Western Sahara, the Central Ahaggar Mountains, the Tibesti Mountains, the Ar Mountains, the Tenere Desert and the Libyan Desert.

  For several hundred thousand years, the Sahara rotated between the desert and savanna meadows in a 20,000-year cycle [8] due to the former position of the Earth's axis as it revolved around the Sun, which is part of the North African monsoon. The location varies. The region is expected to be green in about 15,000 years.

The Sahara includes large parts of Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Western Sahara, Sudan and Tunisia. It covers 9 million square kilometres (more square miles), equivalent to 31% of Africa. If all areas with annual average rainfall less than 250 mm were included, the Sahara would be 11 million square kilometres (4,200,000 square miles). It is one of the three distinct physical provinces of African vast physical division.

Hence, the correct answer is option D.

Note:
The people of Sahara are of different origins. They include various Arabicized Amazi groups such as Amazeeh, Hasania-speaking Saharawis, including Tareg, whose population includes the Zanaga, a tribe whose name is a relic of the prehistoric Zenaga language. Other major groups of people include Tubou, Nubian, Zagahwa, Kanuri, Hausa, Songhai, Beja.