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The Sahara is the largest hot desert in the world.

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Is it true that the Sahara is the largest hot desert in the world?

Yes. Multiple reference works and peer-reviewed papers state that the Sahara is the largest hot desert in the world, with one giving its area as about 9.2 million square kilometres. One encyclopedia entry calls it the driest hot desert but does not dispute its size ranking.

Verdict: SUPPORTED · 8 sources for, 1 against · Last checked

Evidence for · 8
Sahara Desert (ecoregion)
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Sahara Desert (ecoregion). (n.d.). en.wikipedia.org. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahara_Desert_(ecoregion)

Evidence against · 1
geography-encyclopedia-of-world-geography
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geography-encyclopedia-of-world-geography. (n.d.). archive.org. https://archive.org/details/geography-encyclopedia-of-world-geography

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Is Rub' al Khali the largest sand desert in the world?
2018
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Is Rub' al Khali the largest sand desert in the world?. (2018). skeptics.stackexchange.com. https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/40925/is-rub-al-khali-the-largest-sand-desert-in-the-world

Questions and answers
2007
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Questions and answers. (2007). archive.org. https://archive.org/details/questionsanswers0000unse_i8y1

African culture
2013
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1954-, C. C. (2013). African culture. archive.org. https://archive.org/details/africanculture0000cham

Questions and answers about planet Earth
2012
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None (2012). Questions and answers about planet Earth. archive.org. https://archive.org/details/questionsanswers0000unse_d8y8

The demographic response to Holocene climate change in the Sahara
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The demographic response to Holocene climate change in the Sahara. (n.d.). doi.org. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.07.003

Sahara - Wikipedia
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Sahara - Wikipedia. (n.d.). en.wikipedia.org. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahara

Understanding the moisture source of orbitally controlled changes in northern Sahara rainfall: a multi-proxy speleothem approach
2025
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Understanding the moisture source of orbitally controlled changes in northern Sahara rainfall: a multi-proxy speleothem approach. (2025). doi.org. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-20724

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