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Combined green: Definition of "sub-Saharan Africa" as used in the statistics of United Nations institutions Lighter green: The Sudan, classified as a part of North Africa by the United Nations Statistics Division [2] instead of Eastern Africa, though the organization states that "the assignment of countries or areas to specific groupings is for statistical convenience and does not imply any ...
The Sahara Desert is the massive sparsely populated region in North Africa that contains the world's largest hot deserts; Sub-Saharan Africa is the area of the African continent which lies south of the Sahara. The Sahel region covers a belt of grasslands south of the Sahara stretching from Senegal to Sudan.
To the south it is bounded by the Sahel, a belt of semi-arid tropical savanna around the Niger River valley and the Sudan region of sub-Saharan Africa. The Sahara can be divided into several regions, including the western Sahara, the central Ahaggar Mountains, the Tibesti Mountains, the Aïr Mountains, the Ténéré desert, and the Libyan Desert.
South Sudan Republic of South Sudan SSD English: South Sudan—Republic of South Sudan Juba English: Juba 10,748,272 644,329 km 2 (248,777 sq mi) South Sudanese pound: Sudan Republic of the Sudan SDN Arabic: السودان—جمهورية السودان (As Sūdān—Jumhūriyyah as Sūdān) English: Sudan—Republic of the Sudan Khartoum
Western Sahara: Cape Blanc (Ras Nouadibhou) 20°47′N Morocco* Moroccan Western Sahara Wall (disputed) Border with Western Sahara (undisputed) 21°20′N 27°40′N Bahamas: Southeast of Matthew Town, Great Inagua Island: 20°55′N Egypt: Jebel Bartazuga, Bir Tawil (disputed) border with Sudan: 21°44′N 22°00′N Hong Kong
African countries in the Sahara region of North Africa, ... Pages in category "Saharan countries" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.
This is a list of countries and territories by the United Nations geoscheme, including 193 UN member states, two UN observer states (the Holy See [note 1] and the State of Palestine), two states in free association with New Zealand (the Cook Islands and Niue), and 49 non-sovereign dependencies or territories, as well as Western Sahara (a disputed territory whose sovereignty is contested) and ...
The Sahel region (/ s ə ˈ h ɛ l /; from Arabic ساحل (sāḥil) 'coast, shore'), or Sahelian acacia savanna, is a biogeographical region in Africa.It is the transition zone between the more humid Sudanian savannas to its south and the drier Sahara to the north.