34+ Algeria Mountains Sahara Desert Map Pictures. 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. The atlas mountains sit to the north, and the ahaggar massif is southeast.
Its arabic name, al jazair (the islands), derives from the name of the capital algiers (al jazair in arabic). This map shows the generalized location of earth's ten largest deserts on the basis of surface area. The sahara desert impacts almost all of the countries of northern africa.
Sand dunes in the sahara desert.
It stretches along the whole northern part of the continent and occupies the area of over 10 countries, including the large ones like egypt, morocco, algeria, tunisia, sudan, libya, mauritania, and others. These mountains are a highland area in the dry sahara desert that spans. Covering approximately 3.5 million square miles (9,064,958 sq. The table at the bottom of this page provides the names, generalized locations, and surface areas of over twenty major deserts.