Africa

Sahara
Location: North Africa
Size: 3.3 million square miles
Type: hot subtropical
Features: sand dunes, rock plateaus, coarse gravel, oasis mountains

Kalahari
Location: Botswana and northern South Africa
Size: 220,000 square miles
Type: hot subtropical
Features: sand dunes, vast areas covered by red-brown sands with low-growing grasses and brush

 

Major Deserts of the World
Africa
Antarctica
Asia
Australia
North America
South America