Western Desert

desert, Egypt

Also known as: Aṣ-Ṣaḥrāʾ al-Gharbīyah

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Egypt
- In Egypt: Relief
  …flows into two unequal sections—the Western Desert, between the river and the Libyan frontier, and the Eastern Desert, extending to the Suez Canal, the Gulf of Suez, and the Red Sea. Each of the two has a distinctive character, as does the third and smallest of the Egyptian deserts, the…
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- In Egypt: The Western Desert
  The Western Desert comprises two-thirds of the land surface of Egypt and covers an area of about 262,800 square miles (680,650 square km). From its highest elevation—more than 3,300 feet (1,000 metres)—on the plateau of Al-Jilf al-Kabīr in the southeast, the rocky plateau…
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Libyan Desert
- In Libyan Desert
  …Egyptian part, known as the Western Desert (Al-Ṣaḥrāʾ al-Gharbiyyah), was a critical area of operations in World War II.
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