RAS question
The Sahara Desert is located in which continent?
Correct answer: (A) Africa.
The Sahara Desert is located in Africa, where it covers much of North Africa.
Explanation
The Sahara is in Africa. It is the world's largest hot desert, spread across much of North Africa and extending across 11 countries, with an area of about 9.2 million sq km. NCERT Class VII Mathematics Exemplar Problem independently supports the continent link: in its table of the world's largest deserts, it lists “Sahara (Africa)”. That is why Africa is the correct option. The comparison with China or the USA is meant to underline scale, not to change the location: the key geographic fact being tested is the continent in which the Sahara lies.
Why the other options are wrong
- (B) Australia is wrong because the Australian desert example linked with that continent is the Great Victoria Desert, not the Sahara.
- (C) Asia is wrong because the prompt's own distractor note associates Asia with the Thar Desert, while the NCERT table lists the Sahara with Africa.
- (D) South America is wrong because the desert associated with that continent in the prompt is the Atacama Desert, not the Sahara.
Concept
This tests basic world geography: matching major deserts with their continents. It recurs in RAS because deserts are standard map-location facts used in physical geography and environment questions.