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navigation, search The Libyan Desert landscape, in southern
Libya.  The Libyan Desert, also known as the Western Desert,
forms the northern and eastern part of the Sahara Desert and
covers an area of approximately 1,100,000 km2.[dubious ] The
desert extends approximately 1100 km from east to west, and
1,000 km from north to south, in about the shape of a rectangle.
Like most of the Sahara, this desert is primarily sand and
hamada or stony plain.   The desert features a striking
diversity of landscapes including mountains such as Jebel
Uweinat (1980 m), the Gilf Kebir plateau, and sand seas (see
below). The Libyan Desert is barely populated apart from the
modern settlements at oases of the lower Cyrenaica region in
southeastern Libya. The indigenous population is Berber. In most
of Upper Egypt, the desert is close to the Nile River, with a
seasonal floodplain only a few kilometers wide between river