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The Sahara is the largest hot desert in the world, and the worlds third largest desert after Antarctica and the Arctic. The Sahara stretches from the Red Sea in the east and the Mediterranean in the north, to the Atlantic Ocean（大西洋） in the west, where the landscape gradually transitions to a coastal plain. Algeria 阿尔及利亚 Chad乍得 Egypt 埃及 Libya 马利比亚 Mali 马里 Mauritania 毛里塔尼亚 Morocco 摩洛哥 Niger 尼日尔 Western Sahara 西撒哈拉 Sudan 苏丹 Tunisia 突尼斯 The desert landforms of the Sahara are shaped by wind or by extremely rare rainfall and include sand dunes and dune fields or sand seas, stone plateaus , gravel plains , dry valleys, dry lakes and salt flats . Most of the rivers and streams in the Sahara are seasonal or intermittent; Underground aquifers sometimes reach the surface, forming oases;The central part of the Sahara is hyperarid, with little to no vegetation. The Sahara is the worlds largest low-latitude hot desert. The climatic conditions of the region is very bad , and it is the most ill-fitted place for biology to survive in the earth. The harsh climate of the Sahara is characterized by extremely low, unreliable, highly erratic rainfall; extremely high sunshine duration values; high temperatures year-round. People lived on the edge of the desert thousands of years ago since the last ice age. The Sahara was then a much wetter place than it is today. In desert, many beautiful and colorful frescoes（壁画） are the crystallization of this ancient civilization. From 50 million years ago, there are human to live in the edge of the Sahara desert. Berber（柏柏人） Tuareg（图阿雷格人） Moorish（摩尔人） Toop（图布人） Nubian（努比亚人） Sahawei（萨哈威人） Kanuri（卡努里人） Arabic dialects are the most widely spoken languages in the Sahara. Its name is derived from the plural Arabic language word for desert. Arabic: ??????? ?????? Arab(阿拉伯人) Berber(柏柏人)