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The Sudanian savanna or Sudan region is a broad belt of tropical savanna that runs east and west across the African continent, from the Ethiopian Highlands in the east to the Atlantic Ocean in the west. It represents the central bioregion within the broader tropical savanna biome of the Afrotropical realm.
Sudan is the geographical region to the south of the Sahara, stretching from Western Africa to Central and Eastern Africa.The name derives from the Arabic bilād as-sūdān (بلاد السودان ) and arḍ as-sūdān (أَرْض السودان ), both meaning "the land of the Blacks", referring to West Africa and northern Central Africa.
The climate is a tropical savanna climate and a hot semi-arid climate (Köppen climate classification Aw and BSh) with a dry season and a wet season and the temperature being warm and hot year-round. Annual rainfall ranges from 1000 mm in the south to 600 mm in the north on the edge of the Sahel.
The Sahel region covers a belt of grasslands south of the Sahara stretching from Senegal to Sudan. The Sudan, slightly more humid and arable region lying below the Sahel. Sudanian Savanna; Sudd; The Horn of Africa is a peninsula in East Africa that juts for hundreds of kilometers into the Arabian Sea, and lies along the southern side of the ...
In Chad East Sudanian savanna covers the south including the industrial city of Moundou, Chad's second largest city, the oil town of Doba and the cotton-growing towns of Sarh and Pala. In the Central African Republic the region covers the sparsely populated north of the country, the larger towns include Bossangoa.
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.
Sub-Saharan Africa [a] is the area and regions of the continent of Africa that lie south of the Sahara. [3] ... a belt of savanna (the West and East Sudanian savannas
Rainfall increases further south in the Sudanian Savanna, also known simply as the Sudan region, a belt of taller grasslands and savannas. The Sudanian Savanna is home to two great flooded grasslands : the Sudd wetland in South Sudan , and the Niger Inland Delta in Mali .