The Great Sand Sea is an approximately 72,000 km² sand desert in the Sahara stretched from western Egypt and eastern Libya in North Africa. Most of the area is covered by sand dunes. The Great Sand Sea stretches about 650 km from north to south and 300 km from east to west. On satellite images, this desert shows a pattern of long sand ridges runni…
The Great Sand Sea is an approximately 72,000 km² sand desert in the Sahara stretched from western Egypt and eastern Libya in North Africa. Most of the area is covered by sand dunes. The Great Sand Sea stretches about 650 km from north to south and 300 km from east to west. On satellite images, this desert shows a pattern of long sand ridges running in a roughly north-south direction. However, despite the apparent uniformity, the Great Sand Sea has two large areas with different types of megadunes. The Egyptian sand sea lies parallel to the Calanshio Sand Sea of Libya, with which it is contiguous in the north. The dunes of the Great Sand Sea cover about 10% of the total area of the Egyptian Western Desert.
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