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  2. Kalahari Desert - Wikipedia

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    The Kalahari Desert is a large semi-arid sandy savanna in Southern Africa extending for 900,000 square kilometres (350,000 sq mi), covering much of Botswana, as well as parts of Namibia and South Africa.

  3. Category:Deserts of South Africa - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Deserts of South Africa" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. K. Kalahari Desert; N.

  4. List of deserts - Wikipedia

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    Karoo Desert – a desert covering parts of southern South Africa; Namib Desert – a desert in present-day Namibia; Danakil Desert – a desert lying in the Afar Triangle and covering northeastern Ethiopia, southern Eritrea, southern Djibouti and northwesternmost Somalia. Eritrean Coastal Desert – a desert lying along the southern part of ...

  5. List of deserts by area - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of the largest deserts in the world by area. It includes all deserts above 50,000 km 2 (19,300 sq mi). Some of Earth 's biggest non-polar deserts

  6. Namib - Wikipedia

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    The Namib (/ ˈ n ɑː m ɪ b / NAH-mib; [1] Portuguese: Namibe) is a coastal desert in Southern Africa.According to the broadest definition, the Namib stretches for more than 2,000 kilometres (1,200 mi) along the Atlantic coasts of Angola, Namibia, and northwest South Africa, extending southward from the Carunjamba River in Angola, through Namibia and to the Olifants River in Western Cape ...

  7. Geography of South Africa - Wikipedia

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    South Africa occupies the southern tip of Africa, its coastline stretching more than 2,850 kilometres (1,770 miles) from the desert border with Namibia on the Atlantic (western) coast southwards around the tip of Africa and then northeast to the border with Mozambique on the Indian (eastern) coast.

  8. Karoo - Wikipedia

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    The Karoo (/ k ə ˈ r u ə / kə-ROO-ə; from the Afrikaans borrowing of the South Khoekhoe!Orakobab or Khoemana word ǃ’Aukarob "Hardveld" [2] [3]) is a semi-desert natural region of South Africa. No exact definition of what constitutes the Karoo is available, so its extent is also not precisely defined.

  9. List of ecoregions in South Africa - Wikipedia

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    Kalahari xeric savanna – Semi-arid sandy savanna ecoregion in Southern Africa; Nama Karoo – Xeric shrubland ecoregion on the central plateau of South Africa and Namibia; Succulent Karoo – Desert ecoregion of South Africa and Namibia