A hamada (Arabic, حمادة ḥammāda)'s a type of desert landscape consisting of largely barren, hard, rocky plateaus, with very little sand. A hamada may sometimes also be called a reg (pronounced "rej"), though this more properly refers to a stony plain rather than a highland. Hamadas exist in contrast to ergs, which are large areas of shifting sand dunes. The world's largest hamada's the Hamada du Draa, in the northwest Sahara desert, between Morocco, Alge… (
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