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| The area of the continent of Africa that lies south of the Sahara Desert |
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| Largest contiguous sand desert in the world, encompassing most of the southern third of the Arabian Peninsula |
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| City in Saudi Arabia that Muslims consider to be a holy city in Islam |
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| The old Arab or non-European quarter of a North African town |
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| A medieval Muslim territory and cultural domain occupying at its peak most of what are today Spain and Portugal |
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| Coastal area in SE Asia inhabited by the Swahili people |
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| A narrow, 850 km stretch of water between the Malay Peninsula and the Indonesian island of Sumatra |
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| Former Islamic city-state on an island off the coast of what is now southern Tanzania |
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| A seaport in and the economic capital of the Republic of Yemen |
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| A city of central near the Niger River northeast of Bamako |
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