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The Kalahari Desert is a large semi-arid sandy savanna in Southern Africa extending for 900,000 ... depending on location. The southwestern Kalahari is the driest ...
Bayuda Desert – a desert covering eastern Sudan located just at the southwest of the Nubian Desert; Sinai Desert – a desert located on the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt; Atlantic Coastal Desert – a desert lying along the western coast of the Sahara Desert and occupies a narrow strip in Western Sahara and Mauritania
Rank Name Type Image Area (km 2) Area (sq mi) Location [note 1] Nation(s) 1: Antarctic Desert: Polar ice and tundra: 14,200,000 [1]: 5,482,651: Antarctica: N/A 2: Arctic Desert: Polar ice and tundra
Location and description [ edit ] Lying southeast of the Okavango Delta and surrounded by the Kalahari Desert , Makgadikgadi is technically not a single pan, but many pans with sandy desert in between, the largest being the Sua (Sowa), Ntwetwe and Nxai Pans .
The Kalahari Basin, also known as the Kalahari Depression, Okavango Basin or the Makgadikgadi Basin, [1] is an endorheic basin and large lowland area covering approximately 725,293 km 2 (280,037 sq mi) — mostly within Botswana and Namibia, but also parts of Angola, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
The park is located largely within the southern Kalahari Desert. The terrain consists of red dunes, sparse vegetation, occasional trees, and the dry riverbeds of the Nossob and Auob Rivers. The rivers are said to flow only about once per century.
Tropical deserts are located in regions between 15 and 30 degrees latitude. The environment is very extreme, ... the Kalahari Desert in Southern Africa, ...
Central Kalahari Game Reserve is an extensive national park in the Kalahari Desert of Botswana.Established in 1961 it covers an area of 52,800 square kilometres (20,400 sq mi) (larger than the Netherlands, and almost 10% of Botswana's total land area), making it the second largest game reserve in the world. [1]