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The Sahara Desert
The Sahara in North Africa is the largest desert in the world except (1) ____________ Antarctica and is the largest hot desert.
It (2) ____________ bounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the Atlas Mountains, the Mediterranean Sea, the Red Sea, and the Sahel region. It runs through many countries including Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Chad, and The Sudan. Most parts are uninhabited, but (3) ____________ people manage to survive in places where there is water.
The Sahara Desert is about 9,000,000 square kilometres (3.5 million square miles) (4) ____________ size. It has been both larger and smaller at different times. After the last ice age, it became more fertile, then dried up again. It is the hottest place (5) ____________ the Earth, but not the driest. The driest is the Atacama Desert in South America. The Sahara has about the same size (6) ____________ the whole United States.
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