The Great Sand Sea

The Great Sand Sea is an approximately 72,000 Km sand desert in the Sahara stretched from western Egypt and eastern Libya with 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. However, despite the apparent uniformity, the Great Sand Sea has two large areas with different types of mega dunes.

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.

Siwa Oasis lies in the eastern part of the Great Sand Sea or Egyptian Sand Sea.