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Ténéré
The Ténéré (Berber: Tiniri, literally: desert, wilderness) is a desert region in the south central Sahara. It comprises a vast plain of sand stretching from northeastern Niger into western Chad, occupying an area of over . Its boundaries are said to be the Aïr Mountains in the west, the Hoggar Mountains in the north, the Djado Plateau in the northeast, the Tibesti Mountains in the east, and the basin of Lake Chad in the south. The central part of the desert, the Erg du Bilma, is centred at approximately .〔The Ténéré was featured in a Discovery Travel & Living documentary ("Journeys to the Ends of the Earth: The Land of Fear").〕
==Name==
The name ''Ténéré'' comes from the Tuareg language, meaning "desert", in much the same way that the Arabic word for "desert", ''Sahara'', came to be applied to the region as a whole.〔Decalo, p.222. Geels and other sources give the Tamasheq meaning as "''Desert beyond the desert''".〕
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