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title: "How many countries touch the Sahara desert?"  
description: "The Sahara desert touches eleven countries: Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Sudan, Tunisia and others."  
author: "Abhishek  Sen"  
published: 2022-10-15  
canonical: https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/1325/how-many-countries-touch-the-sahara-desert  
category: "education"  
tags: ["Sahara desert", "Sahara", "Africa", "African desert"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# How many countries touch the Sahara desert?

![How many countries touch the Sahara desert](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/107fc702-c248-4689-83e4-7de95c0b06c9/images/3cc2adde-2f1d-450d-b23e-6d3c481488cb.jpeg) ![How many countries touch the Sahara desert](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/107fc702-c248-4689-83e4-7de95c0b06c9/images/72f59066-9a2c-4fc3-9ff2-5de07c0609e8.jpeg) Algeria ![How many countries touch the Sahara desert](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/107fc702-c248-4689-83e4-7de95c0b06c9/images/405c6efc-1bdd-44ec-87b4-7f0e72a78e3b.jpeg) Morocco ![How many countries touch the Sahara desert](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/107fc702-c248-4689-83e4-7de95c0b06c9/images/42107008-2908-4f15-9098-2de40fc83bc8.jpeg) Chad ![How many countries touch the Sahara desert](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/107fc702-c248-4689-83e4-7de95c0b06c9/images/d78b9055-6f6a-44b7-9fa7-b769befb0d44.jpeg) Egypt ![How many countries touch the Sahara desert](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/107fc702-c248-4689-83e4-7de95c0b06c9/images/bd7666d7-b38b-4a92-bb8f-cffe879786b4.jpeg) Libya ![How many countries touch the Sahara desert](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/107fc702-c248-4689-83e4-7de95c0b06c9/images/3aee6926-1966-4df4-ba25-b106c5d4a8c9.jpeg) Mali ![How many countries touch the Sahara desert](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/107fc702-c248-4689-83e4-7de95c0b06c9/images/9b394254-0602-4f71-be29-25d290204a5d.jpeg) Mauritania ![How many countries touch the Sahara desert](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/107fc702-c248-4689-83e4-7de95c0b06c9/images/cf57138b-b6cd-4026-8d70-a0cdc51c1d40.jpeg) Niger, Sudan, Tunisia and Western Sahara.

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