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What Is The Largest Desert On Earth?

Is it the Sahara or the arctic

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    I believe according to my map is the Sahara desert is the largest on earth.
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    Rossi_bear 

    answered 1 year ago

      The largest desert on earth by definition is neither the Sahara or the arctic, but its Antarctica. The definition of a desert is an area that gets less than a certain amount of precipitation a year, and Antarctica comes into this category, so by definition it is the largest desert in the world. The Sahara is the largest HOT desert.
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      Shifty37 

      answered 1 year ago

        It's the Sahara because the Arctic and Antarctica Aren't desserts. The Arctic is just a block of ice floating in the sea and Antarctica is a continent covered in ice and snow. Precipitation has nothing to do with it.
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        Blurtking 

        answered 1 year ago

        'Deserts can be defined as areas that receive an average annual precipitation of less than 250 mm (10 in)'. That's wikipedia. Of course propitiation has something to do with it, how else is a desert defined?
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        Shifty37

        commented 1 year ago

        hey,
        The Sahara desert in Northern Africa is the largest desert in the world!
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        Charming 

        answered 1 year ago

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