Kalahari Desert
(Reguidit frae Kalahari)
The Kalahari Desert is a muckle semi-arid saundy savanna in soothren Africae extendin 900,000 square kilometre (350,000 sq mi), coverin much o Botswana, pairts o Namibie (kent as Sooth-Wast Africae frae 1894 tae 1990), an regions o Sooth Africae.
Kalahari | |
Desert | |
A satellite image o the Kalahari bi NASA World Wind
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Kintra | Botswana Namibie Sooth Africae |
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Laundmerks | Botswana's Gemsbok National Park, Central Kalahari Game Reserve, Chobe National Park, Kalahari Basin, Kalahari Gemsbok National Park, Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Makgadikgadi Pans |
River | Orange River |
Heichest pynt | Brandberg Moontain 8,550 ft (2,610 m) |
- coordinates | 21°07′S 14°33′E / 21.117°S 14.550°E |
Lenth | 4,000 km (2,485 mi), E/W |
Area | 930,000 km2 (359,075 sq mi) |
Biome | Semi-arid desert |
The Kalahari Desert (shawn in maroon) & Kalahari Basin (orange)
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