The Sahara is the largest desert in the world and is one of the harshest environments on Earth. Covering 3.6 million square miles (9.4 million square kilometers), the Sahara is nearly a third of the African continent and about the size of the United States (including Alaska and Hawaii). The name of the desert derives from the Arabic word ṣaḥrāʾ, which means "desert." The Sahara desert now comprises eight percent of the world's land area, and eleven countries have parts of the Sahara Desert within their borders, which are: Libya, Algeria, Egypt, Tunisia, Chad, Morocco, Eritrea, Niger, Mauritania, Mali, and Sudan.
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