Arabian desert

Arabian desert (in the north), nubian desert (in the south)

the Arabian desert is beside the nubian desert the easternmost partial desert of the seeing era in Africa. It is not to be confounded with the Rub aluminium-Chali, which is sometimes called large one Arabian desert, or which sometimes likewise as Arabian desert designated Syrian one desert between Iraq, Syria and Jordanian one.

The desert, which is in eastern Egypt, is as dry region about 22,000 km ² largely. It extends northeast the wet lake between the Nile and the Red Sea and goes toward the south and/or. The Sudan into the nubian desert over.

It consists granite formations of fissured basalt - and and achieves its largest height in the Gebel Shayib aluminium-Banat with 2,187 meters.